The Revival Fellowship

The Revival Fellowship

The Revival Fellowship is a Christian Pentecostal denomination based in Australia.

The group is led by Council of Pastors from around the world. The current chairman is Pastor John Kuhlmann, who is based in Adelaide, South Australia.

Church Genealogy of the Revival Fellowship

History

The group was formed as a result of a 1995 schism with the Revival Centres International, which was itself the result of a schism from the Christian Revival Crusade.

In 1958, when the Christian Revival Crusade adopted a constitution, pastors Lloyd Longfield and Noel Hollins withdrew - forming the Revival Centres of Australia. This schism from the Crusade then spread to other states, and overseas. Over this time, the group fragmented into various camps - including, in 1972, the Revival Centres associated with Noel Hollins (based in Geelong), and the Christian Assemblies International (a more Europe centred 1991 split).

The Revival Fellowship was a large schism from this original group. At a Christmas 1994 church camp Lloyd Longfield instituted a policy providing that sexual defaulters would not find restoration possible. The Adelaide assembly, lead by pastor John Kuhlmann opposed the move - withdrawing from the Revival Centre group 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 adheres (15,000 strong) with smaller assemblies in Europe and a significant work in Malawi. [Rev. Rowland Ward, Religious Bodies in Australia (3rd edition), 1995.]

Doctrine

The Revival Fellowship teaches the necessity of repentance, water baptism, and the receiving of the Holy Spirit for salvation. They believe that when a person is filled with the Holy Spirit they will be able to 'speak in tongues' [http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp] .

The Revival Fellowship had held to the British-Israel doctrine, although racist elements of the teaching were officially denied by the group. [http://www.trf.org.au/Anti_racism_Statement.asp] This has now been removed from curriculum taught.

Bible numerics [http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp] and prophecy related to the Great Pyramid have been taught, although in recent years the church has reduced the emphasis on these teachings. For English speaking countries, they prefer either the King James or New King James Bible.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.revivalfellowship.org The Revival Fellowship] - official website


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