Charles Finney: A Survey of Church History with W. Robert Godfrey 

Love listening to Robert Godfrey and the Ligonier team

I have this entire 6 part series and it is really wonderful. I highly recommend it

Thank you for the background history of the churches

This series is very helpful as a Birds Eye view of the events in church history. It was worth the money and whets your appetite for deeper study of people and places in history. Dr Godfrey has such a winsome way of teaching and his dry wit is engaging. His admiration of Amy Semple McPherson though perplexes me as I know it does his Ligonier teaching fellows as well. A head scratcher for sure. She seemed like a gifted conwoman who ignored the scriptural parameters for a faithful Christian woman. 🤷‍♀️

I love Dr Godfrey ❤

DR. GODFREY ABSOLUTE EXCELLENCE🙏

"Revival And Revivalism" by Ian Murray is an excellent book.

Yes! We're not supposed to be coerced to Christ because it can cause false conversions.

Is Godfrey's previous message on Finney found on youtube?

I wondered how many people in attendance had responded to an "alter call" in their conversion. Growing up in a fundamentalist denomination I didn’t know of a any other way until I was an adult.

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was that Leslie Nelson at the beginning?

History has shown that revival is often associated with significant persecution e.g the Protestant reformation, modern China and Iran. It is right to pray for revival but we need to accept the challenge of accompanying likely opposition and persecution. Blessings from the uk.

Interesting

I'm to the truth Robert Godfrey

No offense, but the speaker has hand picked the common criticism from the reformed side against Finney, but he has not done his homework on Finney. Finney sometimes preached everyday for a month or more before he ever made an alter call.

Appreciate Bob G. so much.Habakkuk 2:14, not Isaiah, is what Bob should've said.

What I read is when Finney visit a factory, without any words spoken, the persons there trembled by the fear of God all together just like what Mr. Sproul claimed he had his experience himself. Since I was not there at that moment, I have no idea if that story is real or not. What do you think?

This formst needs some updating, tramsluscent amd see through writing boards, and teaching with back lit font, to improve on the old chalk boards that our dearly departed brother R.C. Sproul once did. This needs am aesthetic amd optic refresh to complimet the erudition of this pedagogy.

The only thing we have to lose by coming forward in humility before God is self willed pride. I will run to the altar and humble myself before my God, because by His grace alone I am a vessel and a vassal of the Holy Spirit who bids me to come to surrender and lead others to surrender. Charles Finney loved souls and so did Billy Graham who called people to come openly to Christ. If anyone reading this agrees, please pray for those who are lost, those inside and outside the church building, pray He will for the sake of the Lamb’s reward for the cross.

Did John the Baptist teach repentance yes

WLC!!

I grew up in the Assembly of God I speak in tongues when I pray alone in my prayer closet. I never seen disorder, that’s not scriptural.

Finley man save your self

Finney was a man of God of incredible character and power. Anyone in his day opposing him was genuinely incredibly deceived. This man's assessment is void of the actual reason for Finneys success: He was SOLD OUT to Christ and FILLED with the Holy Spirit. He preached his entire career without writing a sermon but 3 times.. he got up and the Holy Spirit literally filled his mouth. And he lead lawyers and judges and every to Christ.

Finney was a very good preacher. Unfortunately, his message was a bit off.

Not impressed with the evangelistic efforts of the old light Presbyterians😭

Reading Finneys critics is like reading the pharisees criticisms of Jesus haha same exact reality of things. Some day those men and this one will really know the truth.. I wish the men of God throughout history weren't Always persecuted by the religious but this is the way it goes..

King David ask God to enlarge hi heart not enlarge his theology

Charles Finney did more for Jesus than probably anyone who criticizes him.

How many have you led to God? I guarantee nowhere near as many as Finney.

It is distinctly interesting to me that Hodge, later Warfield and now Godfrey are willing to straw man a man of God and refuse to read and consider Finney’s own answers to the objection they make. It is the most uncharitable treatment of ministers of the gospel. Godfrey quoting Warfield’s book cracks me up as I wrote a review of that book thirty years ago showing it was full of logical fallacies and nothing more.

Finney was a lost !!!

This is an account of a man who has studied the teachings of Finney in part and not in its entirety. How sad to judge a man whom they say was second to Paul the Apostle and who led thousands to our Lord Jesus and a deeper relationship with our Father. "Touch not God's anointed."

This is literally a pharisee quoting pharisees and their thoughts about a real man of God. Read about Finneys life for yourself and you'll see the absolute surrender to and love for God he had. His contemporaries were jealous and deceived.