Gospel Encounter 🕊️

By @andrewswinnipeg
Reviving 19th c. revivalist Wesleyanism

"The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made" Ps 145:9

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

“Let us look & live & pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all congregations. Let our entire Church be a revival Church, and every member a revivalist… This is our calling; this is our duty”
-Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada (1848)

[Malcolm Yarnell @MusingsOnChrist]

This new systematic theology by @RealTomMcCall and Jason Vickers is worth your time. Take for example their judicious treatment of and conclusions regarding eternal generation and subordinationism. James Leo Garrett Jr. would approve much of what we see here in method and temper.

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"Many hear the voice of *man only* in the Gospel, but some the voice of God (1 Thes 2:13); then it is the power of God unto salvation. It comes *direct* then, as to fallen Adam in the garden—'Adam, where art thou?'—and wakes the dead."
-James Caughey (1855)

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

@LucasBaumbach More on it here: https://t.co/DLisUJSBq1

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[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

@LucasBaumbach Calvin used the term, but you’ll also find the idea in others like AW Pink.

It’s used to explain passages like Hebrews 6:4-6 (enlightened & partake in the Holy Spirit but fall away) or Mark 4:16 (a depraved man receives the gospel with joy?).
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[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"If man fail to find the honey of pure happiness in Jesus, he must expect to be disappointed everywhere else; all the creatures God has made are incapable of supplying it. ... seek & find happiness in Jesus Christ, first & alone."
-James Caughey (1868)

[Daniel R. Griswold @danielrgriswold]

"While we pray for the palpitations of the power of the Holy Spirit, it needs to be wed with intentionality around discipleship and multiplicative discipleship. Then when you have power and pattern together, you transform nations." @plawler111 #movement (https://t.co/5Q2zjnRiVI)

[Fred Sanders @FredFredSanders]

Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism (1963). A real classic; read about it here: https://t.co/kQvj1esWg0

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"The Gospel fully & faithfully preached, awakens attention, like a sudden blaze of lightning & thunder among the clouds, setting some *quaking* and others *querying*."
-James Caughey (1868)

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

@DPGBehler It’s a solid option. I usually recommend William Klein’s *The New Chosen People* as my top pick, but if someones looking for a few to compare, this is another good choice.

[Derrik Behler (BEE-Ler) @DPGBehler]

Review of Shank’s “Elect in the Son” from 3 years ago:

“This was an enjoyable read. Shank has a way of writing that’s informative but has a way of keeping your attention in how he phrases things. Never a dull moment, and I found myself taking pictures of paragraphs because what he said was so well put. Along those same lines, Shank had a gift for being pointed and direct about his objections to other views (namely Calvinist views) but kept it irenic and without any pettiness. With surgical precision he walked that line of being firm but decent to others and their views.

As far as Arminian literature goes, this is a solid option I’d recommend for anyone. He tackles corporate election very well, and it’s obviously an important subject in soteriological discussions. Good option to understand an Arminian corporate election view.”

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"Pulpit orators, who are determined to support a reputation for eloquence & being great preachers ... may draw large congregations, but seldom have any *revival*."
-James Caughey (1868)

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"REVIVAL will not stand without prayer. Let this prayerful agony for souls continue, by day & by night. If much ascends, much descends. What goes up in prayer comes down in showers of blessings. If little ascends, little descends."
-James Caughey (1855)

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"A fear of losing hearers is a great temptation to unfaithfulness in the pulpit. Many a good revival has been prevented by a change in the style of a preacher, through fear of men."
-James Caughey (1868)

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

New video:
Methodist Arminianism & Wesley’s Arminianism: “Who are the Arminians, Part 4”

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"Neither do I think it profitable to try to cram every doctrine in the creed into every discourse, although I desire to *offer Christ* in every sermon."
-James Caughey (1868)

[Andrew 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @AndrewsWinnipeg]

@EdHird Some years back I made a video about the Hunter & Crossley revivals & Sir John’s conversation. Seems like a forgotten bit of history; I’m glad your article brought them up, too. Here is my video if you’re interested: https://t.co/gwdW3py5Bg

[Jesse Owens @JesseFOwens]

Excited to see this up on Amazon. It won’t release until next summer, but you might as well pre-order your copy now.

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"Neither do I think it profitable to try to cram every doctrine in the creed into every discourse, although I desire to *offer Christ* in every sermon."
-James Caughey (1868)

[Gospel Encounter 🕊️ @TheArminians]

"Holiness. The two go on together — Justification & Sanctification — without which a great & *permanent* work of God is not to be expected."
-James Caughey (1857)

[John Rhiannon Thomas @JohnTho2200]

“By the lunch recess, the delegates had done in a single morning what most churches never do in a generation: declared, in one voice and by three-quarters majority, what they believe and why it matters.” https://t.co/76X3qzMcGn