Blessing The Church?
By Clifford Hill, Peter Fenwick, David Forbes, David Noakes
Eagle Publishers. 234 pages, £4.99
ISBN 0 86347 186 2
A battle is now in progress for the soul of the British charismatic movement. This book is a heartfelt cry from charismatic leaders who love the Bible seeking to call the movement back from the precipice of disaster. It is a book which deserves reading by every thinking Christian as soon as possible.
Latter Rain in Docklands
Its thesis is that, culminating in 1990, a package of non-Biblical teaching promising supernatural powers, signs and wonders and imminent revival was injected into the movement and is a milestone of apostacy. In that year John Wimber, backed by many British charismatic leaders, held his conference at Docklands in London at a time when Paul Cain (who many see as a prophet) had predicted that a time of great revival was to break out in London. But it did not happen, and into the vacuum left behind the Toronto blessing (which the authors see as spurious) has emerged.
