HIV treatment advocate dies after turning to Revival
In 2014, the ABC reported on Helen Samilo, an HIV-positive woman who had “fallen prey to the revivalist message.”
Category: The Revival Fellowship
The Revival Fellowship is a cult that exercises tight control over members’ beliefs and forbids contact with other churches. It split from Revival Centres International in 1995 but retains very similar beliefs – even holding onto the teaching of Bible Numerics after this was dropped by Revival Centres.
Revival Centres disavows Bible Numerics
In 1999, Revival Centres dramatically abandoned this longstanding belief, yet splinter groups still push the unscientific teaching.
Book: The British-Israel Myth
There are dramatic real-world implications of the British-Israel teachings, and the theory rests on premises which are utterly unsound.
Tongues: why they cannot be the definitive sign
An examination of tongues as the ultimate sign – warts and all.
Two thousand years of tongues?
An old Revival pamphlet gets everything wrong. The lack of scholarship doesn’t reassure.
Mark 16 and the Revival Centres
It’s easy to push a point of view by selective quotation of evidence to an uncritical audience.
History of British-Israel (the AOG split)
Have you ever noticed this strange statement at the bottom of the Revival ‘We Believe’ list?
Why British-Israelism is wrong
Various theories, one more far fetched than the other, have been adduced, on the flimsiest of evidence, to identify different peoples with the ten lost tribes.
The Great Pyramid – or the Great Deception?
God’s Witness in Stone? The truth is that the Pyramid was nothing more or less than a pagan tomb for Khufu.
Tongues: an unsound evidence of salvation
Even in the Bible, speaking in tongues is not a solely Christian phenomenon.
Salvation through history
Virtually no one else teaches that you must speak in tongues to be saved, and the teaching has no historical precedent
What must I do to be saved?
Is it “repent, be baptised, and receive the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues”?
British-Israelism and the Revival Centres
There is no historical or scriptural reason for equating the British peoples with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
Repent, be baptised, and speak in tongues to be saved?
I was 100% sure that this was the gospel message, but I was shown scriptures that challenged my understanding of salvation.