Global Revival

""Global Revival is an engrossing account of the 1902 Melbourne evangelistic mission and how it fueled revival fires locally and throughout the world. This book combines careful historical analysis with extremely readable prose. The result is a book that pulsates (even in its details) with recollections of a historical moment when God's Spirit moved in powerful ways to draw people to Christ and rekindle his church. Those of us who long and pray for revival will discover in this book a helpful account of how God worked in the past along with principles for how he might do so again in the future."" --Kenneth Berding, professor of New Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University ""Robert J. Nyhuis in Global Revival has produced a superb historical study that speaks to us clearly and directly of the great spiritual need of today's secular societies. The author introduces readers to a little-known antipodean gem of God's glory that launched a global awakening in this delightfully readable and lively analysis of the 1902 R. A. Torrey revival meetings in Melbourne, Victoria. Filled with vivid prose and accompanied by original photographs, sermons, and letters along with study questions, this book has conveyed a living sense of Torrey the Chicagoan evangelist and the Melbourne revival within a socio-cultural context that many will realize they only thought they knew."" --Robert L. Gallagher, professor emeritus of intercultural studies, A. Duane Litfin Divinity School, Wheaton College Graduate School, Chicago ""Robert J. Nyhuis provides a compelling exploration of the 1902 Melbourne Revival, unpacking its dynamics, the scope of its impact, and the lessons we can apply today. It is an inspiring and insightful read."" --Mark Sayers, author of Reappearing Church ""This is the story of one of the most significant revivals known to history. In it was sown the seeds of the more famous Welsh Revival of 1904/5 and of other revivals in four continents in the first decade of the twentieth century. This revival was in a fifth continent: Australia. Not only does it deserve to be better known, but the fullest contemporary records of it exist, and this well-researched account is based on their solid foundation. Here we are told, with clarity and comprehensiveness, its background, how it was organized and supported in prayer, who led it and spoke at it, the character and gifts of its preachers, what they said (an appendix contains five of the addresses delivered during the revival), how its message was received, the impact it made on Australian society and the church, and how it ignited revival fires in other nations throughout the world. By focusing on this one revival, Robert Nyhuis has done a great service for all who long for revival, all who wonder how Jesus, 'the desire of the nations' could satisfy the heart hunger of the Australian nation today, and how the Australian church could again be a blessing to the other continents of the earth. Are the knowledge of past revivals and the expectation that the Lord will do it again in the future rising in Australia? This authoritative analysis is well calculated to raise that exciting prospect even higher."" --Stuart Piggin, associate professor, Centre for the History of Christian Thought and Experience, Macquarie University