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Revival most often refers to: Resuscitation of a person; Language revival of an extinct language; Revival (sports team) of a defunct team; Revival (television) of a ...
The Azusa Street revival spread overseas, and particularly impacted Wales through Evan Roberts. [12] The outpouring was termed the Welsh Revival and lasted from 1904 through 1905. [ 13 ] Around the same time, John G. Lake was reported to have held several healing crusades in Africa, and began a healing ministry in Spokane, Washington. [ 14 ]
Christian revival is defined as "a period of unusual blessing and activity in the life of the Christian Church" [1]. Proponents view revivals as the restoration of the Church to a vital and fervent relationship with God after a period of moral decline, instigated by God, as opposed to an evangelistic campaign.
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Christian revival, increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a church congregation or society, with a local, national or global effect; Revivalism (architecture), the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era
A revival meeting is a series of Christian religious services held to inspire active members of a church body to gain new converts and to call sinners to repent. Those who lead revival services are known as revivalists (or evangelists).
Edwards's congregation was involved in a revival later called the "Frontier Revivals" in the mid-1730s, though this was on the wane by 1737. [7] But as American religious historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom noted, the Great Awakening "was still to come, ushered in by the Grand Itinerant", [7] the British evangelist George Whitefield.
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