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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.
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Andrew Murray emphasizes that for a true revival to occur, it must be accompanied by a profound conviction of sin and the recognition of our complacency in the face of a dying world. He calls for a breaking up of the 'great deep' within us, exposing the formalities and self-indulgences that hinder our spiritual growth and commitment to God's mission. Murray stresses that judgment must begin within the church, urging believers to reflect on their lives and worship in light of God's call to deeper devotion and self-sacrifice.
If a Revival Is to Come… the Great Deep Will Have to Be Broken Up.
If a revival is to come, greater, deeper, broader than any that has yet been, one great part of its power will be in the conviction it will bring of the sin and shame of all the carnal ease, and comfort, and self-indulgence in which we have been living, while the dying, perishing world which has been given into our charge was waiting for us, and the infinite love that had entrusted itself to us, was mourning that we were so slow to go and tell of it. The conviction of sin must be greater, deeper, broader, than we have known it. Judgment will have to begin at the house of God. The great deep will have to be broken up. The formality and worldliness, the selfishness and self-confidence and self-complacency of much of our religion will have to be revealed in the light of the actual life, and worship, and devotion, and self-sacrifice in the power of the Spirit to which God has called us. (Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 59)
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Andrew Murray (1828 - 1917). South African pastor, author, and revivalist born in Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, to Dutch Reformed missionary parents. Sent to Scotland at 10, he studied at Aberdeen University and Utrecht, Netherlands, returning ordained in 1848. He pastored in Bloemfontein and Worcester, later moderating the Dutch Reformed Church’s Cape Synod. In 1860, he sparked a revival in the Orange Free State, preaching to thousands across racial lines despite apartheid’s rise. Murray wrote over 240 books, including Abide in Christ (1882) and With Christ in the School of Prayer, translated into dozens of languages. His emphasis on holiness, prayer, and divine healing influenced global Pentecostalism. Married to Emma Rutherford in 1856, they had eight children, four becoming missionaries. He founded theological seminaries and the Huguenot College for women. Despite chronic illness, he traveled to Europe and America, speaking at Keswick Conventions. His devotional works remain widely read, shaping Christian spirituality across denominations.