Friday, May 05, 2006
I was watching an interview with Ravenhill (if you guy's don't know he was a preacher that ran prayer meetings in America and saw a revival http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=1) Ravenhill said this amazing thing about the Salvation Army and now I can't find it to quote it as soon as I find the quote I'll change this blog so it's more accurate but here's the gist:
Lenerd Ravenhill met a man who used to work alongside William Booth, this guy heard about a man with who was creating a revival up in Wales so he thought to himself I can go up on Friday night after work then be back in time for church on Sunday. When he got there he was so blown away by the presence of God that he thought maby I'll go back to London on Monday not Sunday... he got back to London the next Saturday and nervously walked into the Salvation Army headquarters knowing that he had not shown up for work all week.
Here's where it gets amazing "Where have you been all week" William Booth asked (ish) and this guy started to tell William Booth about this man up in Wales who was preaching in random churches and how God was moving in a mighty way "The Salvation Army used to be like that" was Booth's reaction "we've become to commercial, we need to go back to the old way's"
If the founder of the Salvation Army said it then it's good enough for me. We must not become a userfriendy church or a user friendly Charity, we must be the Salvation Army. posted by pete footer at 8:39 AM
2 Comments:
i hear ya the brother.; i hope u are well and we will make the army like that when ya get back we must couse some havic to make the ppl do gods work and not sit around wondering were the mony is coming from..
yabro matt
Amen to that.
I've had pentecostal friends scorn me for listening to or taking seriously the words of people like William Booth. But the relevance here just blows that out of the water. Booth, like Marten Luther King, or St. Paul spoke the words of God, so how can they be irrelevant?
Booth's not in the bible, true, but the bible's not God's only connection to his creation, is it? It might be the most important or available, or whatever you belive, but is it the only connection? Absolutely not.
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