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The Revival Fellowship
	; Church Genealogy of Revival Centres International

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

The group 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 group 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]}

[edit] History

The group 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, lead 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 strong), as well as various other international assemblies (including assemblies in Europe, Africa, New Zealand, the Pacific and the Americas).^[2]

[edit] Doctrine

[edit] Salvation

The Revival Fellowship teaches the necessity of repentance, water baptism by full immersion^[3], and the receiving of the Holy Spirit^[4] for salvation. They believe that when a person is filled with the Holy Spirit they will speak in tongues ^[5].

Infant baptism and forms of baptism other than full immersion are not considered scriptural or sufficient for salvation. The Revival Fellowship believes that one cannot receive the Holy Spirit without speaking in tongues, and that to truly believe involves being obedient and consequently following the directive to repent, be baptised and receive the Holy Spirit^[6].

Scriptures quoted to justify the Revival Fellowship's 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).

[edit] Healings and Miracles

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

The Revival Fellowship has large groups in various Third World countries, including Papua New Guinea, where there are many cases of its members being healed of HIV/AIDS^[9]^[10] and being raised from the dead^[11].

[edit] 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^[12], although racist elements of the teaching are denied^[13].

Other topics, including Bible Numerics^[14], British Israel ^[15] and prophecy related to the Great Pyramid of Giza and America^[16] are taught.

The group strongly denies the science of Evolution and instead preaches Creationism.

In English speaking countries the King James is used.

[edit] References

^ http://revivalfellowship.org/contacts.asp
^ Rev. Rowland Ward, Religious Bodies in Australia (3rd edition), 1995.
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Water_Baptism.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_Must_I_do_to_be_Saved.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/healing.asp
^ http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_AIDS.asp
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n88lZu1y4 - God's Country, documentary produced in affiliation with the Revival Fellowship, Part 2
^ http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/British_Israel.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp
^ http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp
^ http://trf.org.au/British_Israel.asp
^ http://trf.org.au/America_in_the_Bible.asp

[edit] External links

The Revival Fellowship - official website

[0] ttp://revivalfellowship.org/contacts.asp

[1] Rev. Rowland Ward, Religious Bodies in Australia (3rd edition), 1995.

[2] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/Water_Baptism.asp

[3] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp

[4] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp

[5] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_Must_I_do_to_be_Saved.asp

[6] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp

[7] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/healing.asp

[8] ttp://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_AIDS.asp

[9] ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n88lZu1y4 - God's Country, documentary produced in affiliation with the Revival Fellowship, Part 2

[10] ttp://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp

[11] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/British_Israel.asp

[12] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp

[13] ttp://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp

[14] ttp://trf.org.au/British_Israel.asp

[15] ttp://trf.org.au/America_in_the_Bible.asp

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