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Matthew2323
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 Appealing For An Army Of Young Itinerant Revivalists

[b]Appealing For An Army Of Young Itinerant Revivalists[/b]
By Richard Owen Roberts

A number of years ago, a dear British brother was speaking in our area of Illinois to a group of pastors, and he said that Martin Luther was used by the Holy Spirit as an instrument in the conversion of the entire theological faculty at Wittenberg University in Germany. These men as a unit, he said, trained somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 young men in the great principles of reformation and revival, and this vast group of young men was unleashed upon the cities and the villages of Europe in a relatively short span of time.

At approximately the same period, he further stated, John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, was also training men in theology and the principles of reformation and revival. He trained somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 men, which were also unleashed upon the churches of Europe. Now I cannot vouch for these statistics, but I am assuming the speaker is correct. He is certainly a scholarly and a godly man.

No student of revival could fail to include the Reformation as one of the truly great works of God that wonderfully fits the pattern of revival. One of the greatest needs in our day, as I perceive it, is young men trained in theology and the principles of reformation and revival and then unleashed upon the Church – men who are not pastors in many instances, but men with a call from God to the nation to return to God. Every little hamlet, every town, every county, every city needs urgent, Spirit-filled men pleading with the nation to turn to Christ.

Many of us have agreed together that the whole mission framework of the American Church is going to decline if we do not see something happen here in America. I think we can say, "Save America to save the world!" I don’t mean that exclusively. Obviously, God is at liberty to use anybody and any nation He pleases, but God has so incredibly blessed America and there is a generosity under the grace of God in the American Christian heart. The potential of reaching the world for Christ through wonderfully revived converts is indeed a precious thing just to think about.

I wonder if there is a pastor who has determined to include in the budget at the church, the support of an itinerant man calling America to repentance. I think there is something foolish in trying to send missionaries around the world and doing nothing to save America. There may be some layman who would do well to get before the Lord and ask, "Lord, isn’t there something You want me to do to support an itinerant ministry in America, one which is pleading with the nation to return to God?"

I long to see an army of young men whose hearts burn for the nation and who give themselves entirely to the ministry and who do not have to cheapen the Gospel to keep the crowds coming. We need men who don’t have to compromise in order to get enough money to pay the bills, but men whose lives are given completely to the service of Christ in this life and who are supported by churches and individuals who see the good sense of doing what is right to save the nation. Will you take it to heart?

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Matthew

 2004/9/26 3:02Profile









 Re: Appealing For An Army Of Young Itinerant Revivalists

I want to share my vision with you guys, you may laugh because it is a rather large vision, thats absolutely fine.

My vision is to have an entire army of street preachers to send out all over America and the rest of the world. I plan on having a entire parking lot of RVs. Each RV will have a team of street preachers. They would be sent to all the major cities in America like chicago, LA, NY, boston, etc.

Every large dream has to start somewhere. I have two men, Jason Thaxton and David Bearch who are willing to hit the road with me, travel all over and preach on the streets, on college campus, and in churches. David already owns a custom done van which has a bed, refrig, etc. I checked it out yesturday, it's a great van. We would travel and rely totally on the Lord. Like Ravenhill did for 3 years, although he had no van, they slept in the pews of any church that would take them in and sometimes in sleeping bags in the field. He said they didn't get a penny wages in 6 months and nobody complained, but the churches they started are still there!

The great thing about ministry like this, is that we're not depending on money but on God. Anyone can do it, you simply go. This is what a friend of mine, John Duncan and his wife Ellen did. THey had an RV and knew God called them to preach open-air so they simply hit the road and the Lord provided.

 2004/9/26 13:06
Delboy
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 Re: Appealing For An Army Of Young Itinerant Revivalists

Hay, I ve never heard of a title like that before an Itinerant Revivalist.
:-(

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I long to see an army of young men whose hearts burn for the nation and who give themselves entirely to the ministry


what about the older ones! :-)


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derek Eyre

 2004/9/26 13:30Profile
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Jesse now you have three people. The third one is me. I am very serious. I have been having the thought of doing that for the last two months. I have been thinking about doing that very strongly. So let me know before you go. I'll sleep outside in a tent! I just want to go God willing.


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Adam Fell

 2004/9/26 23:11Profile









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Another friend of mine told me today that he may be being lead by the Lord to join us if we hit the road.

That would make 5 of us total. I also have established contacts all over who are willing to host in their homes traveling street preachers.
Lets continue to take this to prayer.

 2004/9/28 4:30





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