{"id":9212,"date":"2018-07-23T05:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T09:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/?p=9212"},"modified":"2018-07-23T05:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T09:23:58","slug":"testimony-and-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2018\/07\/23\/testimony-and-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony and Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2018\/07\/23\/testimony-and-fellowship\/swc-24-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/07\/SWC-24-2-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/07\/SWC-24-2-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/files\/2018\/07\/SWC-24-2.png 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>The East African Revival emphasized the so-called conversion experience, including an individual&#8217;s conviction of sin and experience of forgiveness. The revivalists asserted that evidence of one&#8217;s conversion would be \u2013 and had to be \u2013 discernable at both the personal level and the communal level. Daewon Moon (projected &#8217;18) argues in his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euppublishing.com\/doi\/abs\/10.3366\/swc.2018.0218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> that one distinctive feature of the Revival was that in revival meetings or marketplaces, converts shared testimony that re-enacted their original conversion experiences, in order to demonstrate the genuineness of their conversion and maintain its continuing efficacy in their daily lives. A second distinctive feature of the Revival was its strong focus on fellowship with other converts. Structured opportunities for fellowship facilitated the ongoing process of identity reorientation and provided a safe, embracing environment in which new converts could receive spiritual and practical support from other members of the Revival. This article examines the significant roles of fellowship and testimony in the East African Revival and how they upheld the authenticity of a person&#8217;s initial conversion experience while also cultivating ongoing conversion through involvement in this new religious community. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East African Revival emphasized the so-called conversion experience, including an individual&#8217;s conviction of sin and experience of forgiveness. The revivalists asserted that evidence of one&#8217;s conversion would be \u2013 and had to be \u2013 discernable at both the personal level and the communal level. Daewon Moon (projected &#8217;18) argues in his latest article that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1994,2015,1999,2018],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9215,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions\/9215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}