Ern Baxter on the Church's Great Mandate

"Where we in the Church have failed throughout history has been in losing our vision and a sense of our mandate. Rather than working towards the vision of Kingdom culture - God's government in it's ultimate form, we have been taken up with lesser things and have been satisfied with incomplete emphases".

Ern Baxter - "Kingdom Culture: Rediscovering our Biblical Mandate" - New Wine Magazine - September 1981 - page 15.

Rob Rufus on His Vision and Calling

"One of the convictions on my life is to see the restoration of New Testament Christianity to the Church. The Church has lost the supernatural - it's like a religious club trying to conscript members on the basis of it's membership and it's membership is a code of morality but God is wanting to raise up churches to be restorers and world changers and world impacters affecting society!".

Rob Rufus - "Power Of Authoratative Command For Healing - Part 3" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 24th September 2006.

Andrew Walker on Terry Virgo's Leadership Style

"Looking at the uniformity of belief and practice within Terry (Virgo's) churches prevents us from being lulled into a false sense that Terry is a soft man. He tends to get what he wants. But his public persona is courteous, friendly and open".

Andrew Walker - "Restoring the Kingdom" - Eagle Publication (1998) - (p333).

Andrew Walker on Terry Virgo's Ecclesiology

"Unlike many Restorationist leaders - for example Bryn Jones and Gerald Coates - Terry (Virgo) is Calvinist rather than Arminian ... Neither is it quite the principled Calvinism of John Stott (although Terry admires him). Terry's Calvinism is in the spirit of the great Puritan leader John Owen mediated through the seperatist tendancies of Dr Lloyd-Jones and the earlier evangelicalism of Charles Haddon Spurgeon".

Andrew Walker - "Restoring the Kingdom" - Eagle Publication (1998) - (p332).

Andrew Walker on Ern Baxter and Bob Mumford

"Baxter was the elder statesman of the group known as the 'Fort Lauderdale' ... they had been in existance since 1960's. Baxter and Mumford were probably were the most liked of the five. Their personalities were attractive and their manner gracious".

Andrew Walker - "Restoring the Kingdom" - Eagle Publication (1998) - (p93).

Andrew Walker on Ern Baxter

"Ern Baxter, who was a member of a group known as the Fort Lauderdale Five, made a major impact (on UK Restorationism). These men were involved in similar movements to the English Restorationists but their vision at the time was more fully worked out and their commitment to "church growth ministries" was much greater".

Andrew Walker - "Restoring the Kingdom" - Eagle Publication (1998) - (p83).

Andrew Walker on Terry Virgo's Essentials

"Terry Virgo thinks that the restoration of apostles is the most important and distinctive feature of Restoration".

Andrew Walker - "Restoring the Kingdom" - Eagle Publication (1998).

Don Basham on Restoration

"Restoration is a considerable step beyond renewal and has to do with shaking and stripping down and moving away rubbish and rubble and restoring to pristine beauty and power and to the original shape".

Don Basham - "What God Wants Now" - New Wine Magazine - October 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p16).

David Devenish on Restoration in Practice

"So we are committed to a Restoration of New Testament doctrine and practice to the Church. Hence we stand together for the truth of God as against legalism. We believe that every member has a contribution to make in terms of service within the church, towards the community and during worship. Worship is not to be dominated by a band any more than it was to be dominated by an organ and a set list of hymns. We are to expect the Holy Spirit to intervene in all our meetings with gifts distributed as He chooses. We do not believe in clergy/laity distinctions but relational servant leadership with the anointing of God as described in Ephesians 4 giving the gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelists and pastor/teachers".

David Devenish - "A Vision for an End-Time Glorious Church" - NFI Magazine Aug-Oct 2002 - (p12).

David Devenish on Restoration

"Notice I said restoring, not restoration of the Kingdom. Although the Kingdom has now come, it has not yet come in all it's fullness. The kingdom will not be fully restored until the new heaven and the new earth. This is very important and helps us to be free from the triumphalism which sometimes as restorationists we are accused of. The Kingdom will only come in all its fullness when Jesus returns. However we are to see the 'powers of the age to come' breaking in today".

David Devenish - "Here I am. Send me!" - NFI Magazine Winter 2000 - (p62).

Dave Holden on Restoration

"We have known visitations of the Holy Spirit in the last twenty years. The issue of restoration is a sovereign work of God. All these invasions of God are not about making us better - but to make us attractive and visible. God blesses us so that all the ends of the earth may fear Him.

We don't want people to say "how nice" but to either say we're mad or it must be God - they must make a decision. God's purpose is immediate impact particularly through moves of the Holy Spirit".

Dave Holden - "Restoring the Church - but To What End?" - Heart of the Nation Conference, Stoneleigh - 30th September 2001.