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===Salvation===
===Salvation===
The Revival Fellowship teaches that one receives salvation by repentance, [[baptism|water baptism]] by [[Baptism#Submersion|full immersion]],<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Water_Baptism.asp]{{dead link|date=October 2015}}</ref> and the receiving of the Holy Spirit.<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp]{{dead link|date=October 2015}}</ref> They preach that the outward manifestation of a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues.<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp |date=20070927163149 }}</ref>
The Revival Fellowship teaches that one receives salvation by repentance, [[baptism|water baptism]] by [[Baptism#Submersion|full immersion]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Water_Baptism.asp |accessdate=February 18, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20130801034544/http://www.revivalfellowship.org:80/Water_Baptism.asp |archivedate=August 1, 2013 }}</ref> and the receiving of the Holy Spirit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp |accessdate=February 18, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20120411120136/http://www.revivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp |archivedate=April 11, 2012 }}</ref> They preach that the outward manifestation of a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues.<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp |date=20070927163149 }}</ref>


Scriptures quoted by the Revival Fellowship to justify its position on salvation include [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 2 (particularly the first few verses, which record speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost, and Acts 2:38, which is included in the group's logo), [[Mark 16]]:15-20, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-6 and [[Gospel of John|John]] 3:1-21 (particularly verses 1-9). Their doctrine regarding speaking in tongues emphasises ''[[glossolalia]]'' tongues (an unintelligable language; e.g. Acts 10:46) over ''[[xenolalia]]'' tongues (a foreign language; e.g. Acts 2:8); there is no official doctrinal stance on when this transition between known and unknown tongues should have occurred.
Scriptures quoted by the Revival Fellowship to justify its position on salvation include [[Acts of the Apostles|Acts]] 2 (particularly the first few verses, which record speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost, and Acts 2:38, which is included in the group's logo), [[Mark 16]]:15-20, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-6 and [[Gospel of John|John]] 3:1-21 (particularly verses 1-9). Their doctrine regarding speaking in tongues emphasises ''[[glossolalia]]'' tongues (an unintelligable language; e.g. Acts 10:46) over ''[[xenolalia]]'' tongues (a foreign language; e.g. Acts 2:8); there is no official doctrinal stance on when this transition between known and unknown tongues should have occurred.


===Miracles===
===Miracles===
The Revival Fellowship believes in miracles from God,<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp |date=20120410180008 }}</ref> and many claim to have experienced miraculous healings.<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/healing.asp]{{dead link|date=October 2015}}</ref> Testimonies, consisting largely of stories about receiving the Holy Spirit and claims of healings and miracles, are often shared in fellowship meetings and publications.<ref>[http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/Medway-Revival-Fellowship/TF_ADJ_50621.aspx ] {{wayback|url=http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/Medway-Revival-Fellowship/TF_ADJ_50621.aspx |date=20110903125530 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.copyadvice.org.uk/Ad-Advice/Advice-Online-Database/Religion-and-spiritual-healing.aspx] {{wayback|url=http://www.copyadvice.org.uk/Ad-Advice/Advice-Online-Database/Religion-and-spiritual-healing.aspx |date=20101130142904 }}</ref>
The Revival Fellowship believes in miracles from God,<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp |date=20120410180008 }}</ref> and many claim to have experienced miraculous healings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/healing.asp |accessdate=February 18, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20131113022300/http://www.revivalfellowship.org/healing.asp |archivedate=November 13, 2013 }}</ref> Testimonies, consisting largely of stories about receiving the Holy Spirit and claims of healings and miracles, are often shared in fellowship meetings and publications.<ref>[http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/Medway-Revival-Fellowship/TF_ADJ_50621.aspx ] {{wayback|url=http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/Medway-Revival-Fellowship/TF_ADJ_50621.aspx |date=20110903125530 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.copyadvice.org.uk/Ad-Advice/Advice-Online-Database/Religion-and-spiritual-healing.aspx] {{wayback|url=http://www.copyadvice.org.uk/Ad-Advice/Advice-Online-Database/Religion-and-spiritual-healing.aspx |date=20101130142904 }}</ref>


The Revival Fellowship has large groups in various [[Third World]] countries, including [[Papua New Guinea]], where there are many claims of its members being healed of [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]<ref>[http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_AIDS.asp] {{wayback|url=http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_AIDS.asp |date=20141202110635 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n88lZu1y4 |title=God's Country - Part 2 |publisher=YouTube |date=2008-01-21 |accessdate=2015-10-17}}</ref> and being [[Resurrection|raised from the dead]].<ref>[http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp] {{wayback|url=http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp |date=20080719230733 }}</ref>
The Revival Fellowship has large groups in various [[Third World]] countries, including [[Papua New Guinea]], where there are many claims of its members being healed of [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]<ref>[http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_AIDS.asp] {{wayback|url=http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_AIDS.asp |date=20141202110635 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n88lZu1y4 |title=God's Country - Part 2 |publisher=YouTube |date=2008-01-21 |accessdate=2015-10-17}}</ref> and being [[Resurrection|raised from the dead]].<ref>[http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp] {{wayback|url=http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp |date=20080719230733 }}</ref>
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The Revival Fellowship preaches a [[Historicism (Christian eschatology)|historicist]] interpretation of [[Bible prophecy]], and holds to the [[British-Israel]] doctrine as an important part of interpreting Bible prophecy,<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/British_Israel.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/British_Israel.asp |date=20130801034646 }}</ref> although racist elements of the teaching are denied.<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp |date=20120320200936 }}</ref>
The Revival Fellowship preaches a [[Historicism (Christian eschatology)|historicist]] interpretation of [[Bible prophecy]], and holds to the [[British-Israel]] doctrine as an important part of interpreting Bible prophecy,<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/British_Israel.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/British_Israel.asp |date=20130801034646 }}</ref> although racist elements of the teaching are denied.<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp |date=20120320200936 }}</ref>


Other topics, including [[Bible Numerics]],<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp |date=20120320115256 }}</ref> British Israel <ref>[http://trf.org.au/British_Israel.asp]{{dead link|date=October 2015}}</ref> and prophecy related to the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] and [[United States|America]]<ref>[http://trf.org.au/America_in_the_Bible.asp] {{wayback|url=http://trf.org.au/America_in_the_Bible.asp |date=20110218033856 }}</ref> are accepted.
Other topics, including [[Bible Numerics]],<ref>[http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp] {{wayback|url=http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp |date=20120320115256 }}</ref> British Israel <ref>{{cite web|url=http://trf.org.au/British_Israel.asp |accessdate=February 18, 2016 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20150304034326/http://trf.org.au/British_Israel.asp |archivedate=March 4, 2015 }}</ref> and prophecy related to the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] and [[United States|America]]<ref>[http://trf.org.au/America_in_the_Bible.asp] {{wayback|url=http://trf.org.au/America_in_the_Bible.asp |date=20110218033856 }}</ref> are accepted.


The Revival Fellowship is critical of the theory of [[Evolution]] and instead preaches [[Creationism|Creation]], though not believing in the literal 6 day creation.
The Revival Fellowship is critical of the theory of [[Evolution]] and instead preaches [[Creationism|Creation]], though not believing in the literal 6 day creation.

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The Revival Fellowship is a Pentecostal church based in Australia.

The Revival Fellowship has assemblies in Australia, Bali, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Côte d'Ivoire, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vanuatu.[1]

The Revival Fellowship is led by a Council of Pastors from around the world. The chairman is Pastor John Kuhlmann, who is based in Adelaide, South Australia. [citation needed]

History

Revival Fellowship

The Revival Fellowship was formed as a result of a 1995 schism with the Revival Centres International. At a Christmas church camp in 1994 Lloyd Longfield (head-pastor of the Revival Centres International) instituted a policy that sexual defaulters would be permanently excommunicated and could never be restored to fellowship. The Adelaide assembly, led by pastor John Kuhlmann, opposed the move - withdrawing from the Revival Centres with approximately half of the assemblies (30), a third of pastors (35) and probably over half of the membership (3,300 including 120 from Melbourne - the bulk of membership outside of Victoria and Tasmania). Approximately half of the missions work in Papua New Guinea became part of the Revival Fellowship (15,000 people), as well as various other international assemblies (including assemblies in Europe, Africa, New Zealand, the Pacific and the Americas).[2]

Doctrine

Salvation

The Revival Fellowship teaches that one receives salvation by repentance, water baptism by full immersion,[3] and the receiving of the Holy Spirit.[4] They preach that the outward manifestation of a person who is filled with the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues.[5]

Scriptures quoted by the Revival Fellowship to justify its position on salvation include Acts 2 (particularly the first few verses, which record speaking in tongues on the day of Pentecost, and Acts 2:38, which is included in the group's logo), Mark 16:15-20, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:1-6 and John 3:1-21 (particularly verses 1-9). Their doctrine regarding speaking in tongues emphasises glossolalia tongues (an unintelligable language; e.g. Acts 10:46) over xenolalia tongues (a foreign language; e.g. Acts 2:8); there is no official doctrinal stance on when this transition between known and unknown tongues should have occurred.

Miracles

The Revival Fellowship believes in miracles from God,[6] and many claim to have experienced miraculous healings.[7] Testimonies, consisting largely of stories about receiving the Holy Spirit and claims of healings and miracles, are often shared in fellowship meetings and publications.[8][9]

The Revival Fellowship has large groups in various Third World countries, including Papua New Guinea, where there are many claims of its members being healed of HIV/AIDS[10][11] and being raised from the dead.[12]

Bible Prophecy and Other Topics

Other topics are often preached or discussed, but they are not given the same emphasis as the salvation message and are not considered doctrinal.

The Revival Fellowship preaches a historicist interpretation of Bible prophecy, and holds to the British-Israel doctrine as an important part of interpreting Bible prophecy,[13] although racist elements of the teaching are denied.[14]

Other topics, including Bible Numerics,[15] British Israel [16] and prophecy related to the Great Pyramid of Giza and America[17] are accepted.

The Revival Fellowship is critical of the theory of Evolution and instead preaches Creation, though not believing in the literal 6 day creation.

In English speaking countries the King James bible is preferred.

Members prophesy to each other during gatherings through 1st person speech (that is, in the person of God, as it were). This is understood by the congregation to mean that God is speaking his message to the church via the person doing the prophesying.

See also

References

  1. ^ [1] Archived 2014-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Rev. Rowland Ward, Religious Bodies in Australia (3rd edition), 1995.
  3. ^ https://web.archive.org/20130801034544/http://www.revivalfellowship.org:80/Water_Baptism.asp. Archived from the original on August 1, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ https://web.archive.org/20120411120136/http://www.revivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp. Archived from the original on April 11, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ [2] Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ [3] Archived 2012-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ https://web.archive.org/20131113022300/http://www.revivalfellowship.org/healing.asp. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ [4] Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ [5] Archived 2010-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ [6] Archived 2014-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "God's Country - Part 2". YouTube. 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
  12. ^ [7] Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ [8] Archived 2013-08-01 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ [9] Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ [10] Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ https://web.archive.org/20150304034326/http://trf.org.au/British_Israel.asp. Archived from the original on March 4, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2016. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ [11] Archived 2011-02-18 at the Wayback Machine