All Things Are Possible: The Healing and Charismatic Revivals in Modern America by David Edwin Harrell

Author:David Edwin Harrell [Harrell, David Edwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Ministry, Evangelism, Biography & Autobiography, Religious, history, United States, 20th Century
ISBN: 9780253013422
Google: w8wdDAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1979-01-21T00:26:35.454551+00:00

GORDON LINDSAY

By the end of the 1950s, Gordon Lindsay saw that his Voice of Healing organization had become counter-productive. Its widely circulated magazine brought fame to healing revivalists, but the organization received little in return. In fact, as the evangelists became financially independent, they dropped the Voice of Healing and set up their own organizations and publications. In mid-decade, a series of them joined the organization for only a year or two and then, on the basis of their easily acquired reputations, launched out on their own.

Lindsay’s efforts to consolidate around the healing work of the organization largely failed. Nothing came of plans announced in 1958 to change from an informal association of evangelists into a tightly-knit body.1 By 1960 the schedules of only seven evangelists were being published in The Voice of Healing—Morris Cerullo, W. V. Grant, Louise Nankivell, Joseph De Grado, John and Olive M. Kellner, and “Little David” Walker. Grant, Cerullo, David Nunn, Richard Vinyard, and Lindsay himself continued to headline Voice of Healing conventions, which met until the mid-1960s, but missing were the giants of the past—Branham, Roberts, Jaggers, Allen, and Osborn.

It was the decision to move into T. L. Osborn’s type of ministry that kept the Voice of Healing moving forward. Lindsay had long been interested in missionary work, having conducted campaigns in Mexico early in his career, and his mind naturally turned in that direction.2 In 1956 Lindsay began a Winning the Nations Crusade, asking his supporters to contribute toward deliverance teams that would be sent all over the world by the Voice of Healing organization.3 Early in 1968, he announced an all-out move for world evangelization4 and for over a year called his magazine World-Wide Revival The title reverted to The Voice of Healing in 1969 but the organization had changed permanently from one of healing revivalists into an important missionary society.5

In a final adaptation, Lindsay abandoned his role as publicist for the revival and became its historian and theologian.6 By the late 1960s, he had developed the concept of producing evangelistic literature about the charismatic movement and message. He wrote about 250 historical and doctrinal books, many of them substantial manuscripts rather than the flimsy pamphlets usually hawked by the healing revivalists. Always a respected teacher, Lindsay developed a wide audience for his writings. He still believed that the message of healing was important to the salvation of the world, but he recognized that his own ministry had evolved. In 1967, he once again changed, this time permanently, the name of his magazine and gave a detailed explanation for the new title:

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