Renewal Journal 4: Healing

Renewal Journal 4: Healing contains articles about wholeness, deliverance, freedom and healing by leaders in renewal and revival: Missionary Translator & Doctor, by Dr David Lithgow, My Learning Curve on Healing, by Canon Jim Holbeck, Spiritual Healing by Rev John Blacker, Deliverance and Freedom by Dr Colin Warren, Christian Wholeness Counselling, by Dr John Warlow, A Healing Community, by Spencer Colliver, Sounds of Revival, by Sue Armstgrong, Revival Fire at Wuddina, by Trevor Faggotter

Rev Dr Lewis Born wrote:
 
Renewal is no longer a matter of speculation.  It will be recorded as one of the most significant faith history phenomena of all time.  The Global Village factor makes this revival the most comprehensive international social and religious phenomena ever known.
 
To those who remain untouched or unexposed to renewal theology and events may I suggest that Geoff Waugh's editorship of the Renewal Journal is a good step towards being more informed and possibly persuaded to the point of being involved, even to being a corrector of its course.
 
Future students of both social and church history will be surprised, both at the facts and at those who slept through them.Professor Walter Hollenweger (Missiology, Birmingham) has stated, 'a movement which represents more or at least as many members as all other Protestant denominations taken together can no longer be considered a fringe topic in church history, missiology and systematic theology.'
 
Among those who still sleep are members, clergy and leaders of orthodoxy who see themselves as defenders of the faith against this threat of enthusiasm and 'unnecessary extremes' to traditional faith, practice and theology.  Tradition and orthodoxy need to be re-defined.  If New Testament Christianity is the orthodox, then what claims to be twentieth century orthodoxy may be labelled by future theological historians as in fact deviant.
 
No doubt some of the renewal theological emphasis runs into error, if not enthusiastic heresy.  Some of its worship forms and practice are too subjective and unbalanced for my limited taste.  There are many charlatans.  But who would claim that contemporary 'orthodox' faith and practice were free of phonies and heresy?
 
Contemporary renewal is one of the most significant events in the history of Christianity.  Don't do a 'Rip Van Winkle'.
 
 
Rev Prof James Haire wrote:
 
Dr Geoff Waugh, an expert in Renewal Studies over many years, has begun editing an important Australian Journal which is unique in that it gathers together renewal material from the many church groups throughout Australia and overseas.
 
The Journal is breaking important new ground by linking renewal with ecumenical fellowship primarily throughout Australia.For that reason it is quite a new contribution in this area. 
I warmly commend this fresh and ground-breaking enterprise.  It looks as if it will play an important part in the Christian Church throughout this country.