ELDER

1
ELDERS LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATION LEVEL - 1
2
Revival, Reformation, and Evangelism
3
Revival and Reformation
Revival is the absolute in the church growth
process. A church must constantly call upon the
Lord for His leadership, direction, insight, and
power.
4
Revival and Reformation
A revival and a reformation must take place,
under the ministration of the Holy Spirit.
Revival and reformation are two different
things.
5
Revival and Reformation

• Revival signifies a renewal of spiritual life, a
  quickening of the
• powers of mind and heart, a resurrection from
  spiritual death.
• Reformation signifies a reorganization, a change
  in ideas and
• theories, habits and practices. Reformation will
  not bring forth
• the good fruit of righteousness unless it is
  connected with the
• revival of the Spirit. Revival and reformation
  are to do their
• appointed work, and in doing this work they must
  blend.
• (E. G. White, Last Days Events,
  189)

6
Revival and Reformation
A revival need be expected only in answer to
prayer. (Selected Messages, 121)
7
Revival and Reformation
God calls for a revival and a reformation. The
words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should
be echoed from the pulpits of our land. In the
sermons of many pulpits of today there is not
that divine manifestation which awakens the
conscience and brings life to the soul. (RH,
February 27, 1908 par. 5)
8
Revival and Reformation
We all need the Holy Spirit. Our ministers need
it. Our medical and educational institutions and
our churches need it. We need a thorough, living
experience in the work of the Lord.
(Sermons and Talks, Vol.1, p. 392)
9
Revival and Reformation Steps
First Step Pastors and church workers.
Second Step Local church leaders and members.
Third Step Everyone involved in evangelism to
proclaim Jesus Second Coming.
10
Revival and Reformation Steps
1. Pastors and Church Workers

• A revival of true godliness among us is the
  greatest and most urgent of all our needs. To
  seek this should be our first work.
  
• (Last Days Events, p. 189)
• I tell you that there must be a thorough revival
  among us. There must be a converted ministry.
  There must be confessions, repentance, and
  conversions. Many who are preaching the Word need
  the transforming grace of Christ in their
  hearts. (Ibid.)

11
Revival and Reformation Steps
1. Pastors and Church Workers
The ministers must be converted before they can
strengthen their brethren. . . . A reformation
is needed among the people, but it should first
begin its purifying work with the ministers.
(1T., p. 469)
12
Revival and Reformation Steps
1. Pastors and Church Workers
The time has come for a thorough reformation to
take place. When this reformation begins, the
spirit of prayer will actuate every believer,
and will banish from the church the spirit of
discord and strife (Testimonies, vol. 8, p.
251).
13
Revival and Reformation Steps
2. Local church leaders and members

• Love One Another
• True conversion is a change from selfishness to
• sanctified affection for God and for one another.
  . . .
• The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is
  a
• loving and lovable Christian (LDE 191).

14
Revival and Reformation Steps
2. Local Church Leaders and members
The heart must be emptied of every defilement
and cleansed for the indwelling of the Spirit.
It was by the confession and forsaking of sin,
by earnest prayer and consecration of themselves
to God, that the early disciples prepared for
the outpouring (Prayer, p. 118).
15
Revival and Reformation Steps
2. Local church leaders and members
Pray without ceasing, and watch by working in
accordance with your prayers. As you pray,
believe, trust in God. It is the time of the
latter rain, when the Lord will give largely of
His Spirit. Be fervent in prayer, and watch in
the Spirit (Testimonies to Ministers, p. 512).
16
Revival and Reformation Steps
2. Local church leaders and members

• Total Surrender Required

We should pray as earnestly for the descent of
the Holy Spirit as the disciples prayed on the
day of Pentecost. If they needed it at that time,
we need it more today (Prayer, p. 119).
17
Revival and Reformation Steps
2. Local Church Leaders and members

• Clearing the Way for the Latter Rain

There is nothing that Satan fears so much as
that the people of God shall clear the way by
removing every hindrance, so that the Lord can
pour out His Spirit upon a languishing church and
an impenitent congregation (Prayer, p. 120).
18
Revival and Reformation Steps
3. Evangelism and Proclamation
The spiritual life of the church can only be
kept alive as the members make personal efforts
to win souls to Christ. . . (6MR, p. 199).
19
Revival and Reformation Steps
3. Evangelism and Proclamation
When the churches become living, working
churches, the Holy Spirit will be given in
answer to their sincere request. . . . Then the
windows of heaven will be open for the showers
of the latter rain (LDE, p. 193).
20
Revival and Reformation Steps
3. Evangelism and Proclamation

• "Keep the Vessel Clean and Right Side Up"
• We need not worry about the latter rain. All we
  have to do is to
• keep the vessel clean and right side up and
  prepared for the
• reception of the heavenly rain, and keep praying.
  Let the latter
• rain come into my vessel. Let the light of the
  glorious angel
• which unites with the third angel shine upon me
  give me a part
• in the work let me sound the proclamation let
  me be a
• collaborer with Jesus Christ (LDE, p. 194).

21
Revival and Reformation Steps
3. Evangelism and Proclamation

• Prayer without earnest activity for others leads
  to formalism.
• God does not mean that any of us shall become
  hermits or
• monks, and retire from the world to devote
  ourselves to acts of
• worship. The life must be like Christs
  lifebetween the
• mountain and the multitude. He who does nothing
  but pray will
• soon cease to pray, or his prayers will become a
  formal
• routine (Steps to Christ, p. 101).

22
Strategy for Implementation

• Pastors and church workers Step 1
• Promoting prayer meetings.
• Providing study materials.
• Challenging a healthy lifestyle reformation.
• Claiming the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

23
Strategy for Implementation

• Local church leaders and members Step 2
• Living a life of prayer.
• Promoting Week-of-Prayers and vigils.
• Emphasizing the need for home worship.
• Challenging a healthy lifestyle reformation.
• Claiming the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

24
Strategy for Implementation

• Evangelism and Proclamation Final Goal
• Revival and Reformation emphasis.
• Training, equipping, and motivating.
• Studying the book Christian Service.
• Establishing small groups.
• Sharing missionary literature.

25
Good News and Bad News
Had Adventists after the great disappointment in
1844 held fast their faith and followed on
unitedly in the opening providence of God,
receiving the message of the third angel and in
the power of the Holy Spirit proclaiming it to
the world, they would have seen the salvation of
God, the Lord would have wrought mightily with
their efforts, the work would have been
completed, and Christ would have come ere this
to receive His people to their reward. . . . It
was not the will of God that the coming of
Christ should be thus delayed. . . . (Last Days
Events, p. 37)
26
Good News and Bad News
For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and
rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land
of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the
entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly
Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God
at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness,
unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's
professed people that have kept us in this world
of sin and sorrow so many years. Had the church
of Christ done her appointed work as the Lord
ordained, the whole world would before this have
been warned and the Lord Jesus would have come
to our earth in power and great glory. (Last
Days Events, p. 38)