Revival Fellowship

The Revival Fellowship is a conservative Pentecostal church based in Australia.

The Revival Fellowship 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, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore,
South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Suriname, the United Kingdom, the United States , and Vanuatu.[1]

The Revival Fellowship is led by a Council of Pastors from around the world. The chairman is Pastor Paul
Nobel, who is based in Adelaide, South Australia.[2]

History
The Revival Fellowship was formed as a result of a 1995 schism Revival Fellowship
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, led 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
Church Genealogy of Revival
Tasmania). Approximately half of the missions work in Papua
Centres International
New Guinea became part of the Revival Fellowship (15,000
people), as well as various other international assemblies
(including assemblies in Europe, Africa, New Zealand, the Pacific and the Americas).[3]

Doctrine

Salvation

The Revival Fellowship teaches that one receives salvation by repentance, water baptism by full
immersion,[4] and the receiving of the Holy Spirit.[5] They preach the outward manifestation of a person
who is filled with the Holy Spirit is to be found in the biblical experience of "speaking in tongues" as seen
in Acts 2:4, Acts10:44.[6]

Scriptures quoted by the Revival Fellowship to justify its 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). Their doctrine regarding speaking in tongues emphasises glossolalia (an unintelligible,
linguistically defined non-language; e.g. Acts 10:46, 1 Cor 14:2) over xenoglossa (a linguistically defined
language; e.g. Acts 2:8).

Miracles

The Revival Fellowship believe in miracles from God,[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.[9][10]

The Revival Fellowship has large groups in various Third World countries, including Papua New Guinea,
where there are many claims of its members being healed of HIV/AIDS[11][12] and being raised from the
dead.[13]

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 modified form of historicist interpretation of Bible prophecy, and holds
to the mid-twentieth century British-Israel religious theory as an important part of interpreting Bible
prophecy,[14] although racist elements of the teaching are denied.[15]

Other topics, including Bible Numerics,[16] British Israel[14] and prophecy related to the Great Pyramid of
Giza and America[17] are accepted.

The Revival Fellowship is highly critical of the science of evolution and instead preaches a form of special
creation; they do not believe in a literal six-day creation, or in the priority of Adam as the first human being.

In English speaking countries, the Authorized King James Versions (KJV) or The Amplified Bible (AMP)
bible is preferred.

Members prophesy to each other during gatherings through 1st person speech (that is, in the person of God,
as it were). This is understood by the congregation to mean that God is speaking his message to the church
via the person doing the prophesying.

Meetings operate the three voice gifts of the Holy Spirit: tongues followed by interpretation; and prophecy
in accord with 1Corinthians 14.

See also
Christian Assemblies International
Revival Centres International

References
1. "World Wide Contacts" (https://web.archive.org/web/20141202120601/http://revivalfellowshi
p.org/contacts.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://revivalfellowship.or
g/contacts.asp) on 2 December 2014.
 2. "The Revival Fellowship" (https://www.therevivalfellowship.com/). The Revival Fellowship.
Retrieved 2021-09-15.
3. Humphreys, Robert, Th. L. (1986). Religious bodies in Australia (https://www.worldcat.org/oc
lc/27625198). Rowland S. Ward. Melbourne: R. Humphreys, R. Ward. ISBN 1-86252-709-1.
OCLC 27625198 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27625198).
4. "IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT WATER BAPTISM" (https://web.archive.org/web/201308010
34544/http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Water_Baptism.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived
from the original (http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Water_Baptism.asp) on August 1, 2013.
Retrieved February 18, 2016.
5. "THE HOLY SPIRIT" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120411120136/http://www.revivalfellow
ship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://www.re
vivalfellowship.org/The_Holy_Spirit.asp) on April 11, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
6. "SPEAKING IN TONGUES" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070927163149/http://www.reviv
alfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original
(http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Speaking_in_Tongues.asp) on 27 September 2007.
7. "What We Believe" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120410180008/http://www.revivalfellows
hip.org/What_We_Believe.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://www.r
evivalfellowship.org/What_We_Believe.asp) on 10 April 2012.
8. "HEALED BY GOD" (https://web.archive.org/web/20131113022300/http://www.revivalfellow
ship.org/healing.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://www.revivalfello
wship.org/healing.asp) on November 13, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
9. "ASA Adjudication on Medway Revival Fellowship" (https://web.archive.org/web/201109031
25530/http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/Medway-Revival-Fellowship/
TF_ADJ_50621.aspx). Advertising Standards Authority. Archived from the original (http://ww
w.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2011/6/Medway-Revival-Fellowship/TF_ADJ_5062
1.aspx) on 3 September 2011.
10. "Religion and spiritual healing" (https://web.archive.org/web/20101130142904/http://www.co
pyadvice.org.uk/Ad-Advice/Advice-Online-Database/Religion-and-spiritual-healing.aspx).
CopyAdvice. Archived from the original (http://www.copyadvice.org.uk/Ad-Advice/Advice-Onl
ine-Database/Religion-and-spiritual-healing.aspx) on 30 November 2010.
11. "HIV/AIDS" (https://web.archive.org/web/20141202110635/http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_
AIDS.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://revivalfellowship.org/HIV_A
IDS.asp) on 2 December 2014.
12. "God's Country - Part 2" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n88lZu1y4). YouTube. 2008-
01-21. Archived (https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/E6n88lZu1y4) from the
original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
13. Nurison, Ripson. "RAISED FROM THE DEAD" (https://web.archive.org/web/200807192307
33/http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived
from the original (http://revivalfellowship.org/Raised_from_the_dead.asp) on 19 July 2008.
14. "BRITISH ISRAEL" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130801034646/http://www.revivalfellows
hip.org/British_Israel.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://www.revivalf
ellowship.org/British_Israel.asp) on 1 August 2013.
15. "ANTI-RACISM STATEMENT" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120320200936/http://www.re
vivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the
original (http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Anti_racism_Statement.asp) on 20 March 2012.
16. "A MATHEMATICAL REVELATION IN SCRIPTURE" (https://web.archive.org/web/2012032
0115256/http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp). Revival Fellowship.
Archived from the original (http://www.revivalfellowship.org/Bible_Numerics.asp) on 20
March 2012.
17. "AMERICA'S BIBLE IDENTITY" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110218033856/http://trf.org.
au/America_in_the_Bible.asp). Revival Fellowship. Archived from the original (http://trf.org.a
u/America_in_the_Bible.asp) on 18 February 2011.

External links
Official website (http://www.revivalfellowship.org)

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