All with One Accord (Donald Gee) - Deal Pentecostal Church

of the world draw huge crowds. News of this kind of thing in
the United States has become almost commonplace, but it is
to be noted that equal crowds have been attracted not only in
Latin America, but in South Africa, Australia, Japan, Hong
Kong, the West Indies, and the Philippines. The present
interest among the clergy in Holland in divine healing is
remarkable. Indigenous preachers in other lands are not
lagging behind.
As a responsible correspondent puts it in a personal letter just
to hand: "It is my belief that the movements would do well to
consider that none of these men are perfect. The greatest
thing that they have to offer is a new boldness and faith in
God. It is this ministry that electrifies large audiences and
gives the Church an opportunity to contact the masses. All in
all, these mass meetings make communities God-conscious,
salvation-conscious, and Divine-healing-conscious. It puts the
ministry on the offensive rather than the defensive."
Some wise words by C. J. E. Kingston in The Elim Evangel are
worth repeating: "Every age has been compelled to rethink its
methods of approach in order that the message of the
Evangel may teach the greatest possible number in its
generation. For instance, the mendicant friars, though later to
degenerate into parasites, began as a genuine effort to carry
the gospel to the man in the street; later the Wycliffe
preachers tramped the hills and dales of England reading the
Word of God; Wesley and Whitefield rediscovered fieldpreaching
as a means of reaching the people; William Booth
invented the Christian army and reached the masses with
band, drum, and uniform to help him; while we in the
twentieth century have seen the revived interest in divine
healing attracting multitudes to hear and receive the gospel
who wouldn't otherwise have come under its influence."
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