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Gordon Grieve was raised in the
atmosphere of a growing Baptist Church in his home town of Brantford
Ontario .He received Christ as His personal Saviour at age six.
A much deeper commitment came at age eleven and a great hunger
to know the Word of God and to read it daily. The Church was full of
a great missionary zeal and subsequently a surrender to serve Christ
along side of so many of the rest of the young people in this
Church.
He
trained in a Missionary School in Kitchener, Ontario and received a
bachelor of Theology degree. Serving as an assistant pastor in two
aggressively growing churches in the same area .He saw many exciting
attendance records broken in those four years.
With great
zeal Gordon began in March of 1979 to pioneer an independent
fundamental Baptist church in the city of Guelph, Ontario,
Canada. Inside this group of Churches what was believed as
contending for the Faith had become for Gordon in some areas,
legalistic Christianity It showed itself in aggressive activities
against other styled groups of faith. A special emphasis against
Charismatic Churches refuting the gifts and denying Offices to
function was all part of the same accusatory and harsh spirit that
was in this developing Church.
The
faithfulness of God was very present through these years but a
growing hunger for an awesome God to show up in their services was
becoming their greatest desire.. Painstakingly God was converting
Gordon to be like Him.
In the
desperate days of a second Church split the hunger of God led Gordon
to a meeting that if He had known what would have happened to Him he
would not have gone. This was December of 1994. God the Father just
graciously walked Gordon and there congregation into the renewing
works of God.
The Holy
Spirit brought great deliverance, repentance, signs, wonders and
miracles to this small still pioneering Church. Before fifty days
had passed a stirring burden to pray is implanted in Gordon’s
heart. The next three years would find the Church practicing the
prophetic gifting for a hundred and thirty days a year over
different groups of Nations. They say they were actually being
selfish because it was so much fun just to be with the Father.
Their
services also became elongated so that the morning services were
running into the evening services. Former prostitutes and pedophiles
were being wonderfully delivered. God was at work as an awesome God,
.and they were being changed into His likeness and liking it for the
most part.
God
had gotten out of the box and this congregation would work for all
of these next years at not confining God but making up for lost
time. They believe if they are going to be called Charismatic then
they should be fully guilty of such a title. They are practicing and
getting better at all that God wants to offer them. A growing burden
has been falling on them for the nation of Canada and they are
believing the Lord for a national revival. |