Revolution of Love

The Canadian Revival
1971-72:
Its Impetus and Theology

K. Neill Foster
Foreword by Bill McLeod

Horizon Books
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ISBN: 0-88965-140-X

@ 1973,1997 Horizon Books

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Dedication

To Carmelo Terranova, the Argentine Bible teacher who came eight thousand miles to teach us how to love, and to Asterio Wee, Juan Talion, Domingo Ferrer, Ismael de la Pena and hundreds of other Filipinos among whom and with whom we experienced the revolution of love.

Foreword

In a unique and powerful way Neill Foster has grasped clearly the essence of revival. To so many, revival has to do with subjective experiences of various kinds. To others it is questioned unless there are large numbers of people converted to Christ. To some the excitement - generated by a true moving of God becomes the essence of revival.

There have been a number of powerful revivals in the Solomon Islands, though they do not call them that. They speak instead of "the falling of love." This book follows suit. Revolution of Love shows in a wonderful way that love is the true hallmark of genuine revival.

Spurgeon loved to quote this verse:

Praising God with all my might;
In the sea of God's delight,
Self is drowned, and I am free!
Christ and love remain in me.

You will find this book challenging and life changing. There are scores of examples of people who were blessed by the Holy Spirit and filled with the love of God in a soul-transforming way. They were, in a very real sense, revolutionized by love.

Rev. Bill McLeod,
Canadian Revival Fellowship

Contents

Chapter	Page
Introduction	11
1. Revolutionary Love	13
2. God Lives in Saskatchewan	15
3. The Roots of Revival	18
4. Sixty Million Times	25
5. Hunted by Conviction	29
6. The Lid Comes Off	35
7. Love Is Something You Do	38
8. To Your Neighbors	48
9. And to Your Enemies	54
10. Observable Love	57
11. That Bad Dog	63
12. The Chariot Has Brakes	69
13. The Logic of Love	73
14. The Fulness of Love	83
15. Exploding Love	88

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Introduction

"Have you heard about the revival in Canada?"

This was the question put to me by pastor friends who met me in the Vancouver International Airport. The date was November: 1971 and I had just returned from an evangelistic and Bible teaching ministry in Mexico and Guatemala..

Of course I had not heard about revival in Canada, but I was interested and just a little bit uneasy.

I continued my journey toward the Peace Country of Alberta, where we make our home. In a second airport, the bustling frontier terminal at Fort St. John, B.C., I was again confronted by another pastor, "Have you heard about the revival in Saskatoon?"

By then I had. And the uneasiness was changing to just a little fear. I was not afraid of revival, but I was afraid of its spiritual and national significance. In Manchuria, Korea, and China, and to say nothing of Eastern Europe just before World War II, revivals had immediately preceded national and political disaster. What did all this mean for my wife, our children, our nation?

At home in Beaverlodge I discovered my wife as excited as everyone else about what God was doing in Saskatchewan. She had been talking to Lou Sutera on the phone and was brimming with details.

Revival had come to Canada, and - as I was soon to find out - it was a revival of love. How it came to my own heart and what we have learned I shall relate as we proceed in these pages.

My object in writing is not to create a chronological account, nor even to trace a geographical pattern of the Holy Spirit's working. From incidents in the Philippines, in Saskatchewan, in Africa, from eternal truths made personal and alive I have drawn the raw materials. Thus, with a cautious mixture of narrative, scripture and experience I am seeking to describe the revolution of love - and to create a deep hunger in thousands of hearts for God's exploding love.

Chapter 1