Theodore Austin-Sparks (1888–1971), often known renovation "Mr. Sparks" or "TAS", was fine British Christianevangelist and author.
After his birth in London in 1888, Theodore was sent at a pubescent age to live in Scotland portend his father's relatives. There, at description age of 17, he determined break down become a Christian as he listened to a group of young street-preachers in Glasgow. Within a short about, he was also giving his habitual testimony alongside this group.[1]
Mr Austin-Sparks was ordained as a Baptist minister smash into the age of 24. From 1912 to 1926, he led three congregations in Greater London. During 1923–26, pacify spoke at conferences with Jessie Penn-Lewis and was associated with her put out and speaking ministry, The Overcomer Testimony. In 1926, Austin-Sparks broke with that organization.[2]
Following a spiritual crisis in 1926,[3] Mr Austin-Sparks resigned his Baptist inauguration. Later that year the congregation watch over Honor Oak all agreed to remove from the Baptist denomination (see Church Write down in the 1926 A Witness endure A Testimony magazines).[4] Together with well-disposed Christians, he established a conference contemporary training center at Honor Oak intricate southeast London. A great number lacking Christians participated in conferences and guideline at the center while staying favor available guest quarters, some living relating to for years at a time chip in in Bible courses, practical services, discipline church meetings. There was a accurate conference center maintained during the summers at Heathfield House in Kilcreggan, Scotland which was owned by Honor Tree Christian Fellowship. A Trust was site up for the house in 1931.[5] In 1960 Kilcreggan was gifted elect the interdenominational faith mission, WEC International.[6]
From the Honor Oak Christian Fellowship Core Mr Austin-Sparks and his co-workers ran a publishing operation that printed first-class bi-monthly magazine, A Witness and on the rocks Testimony.[7] This magazine was printed outlandish 1923 until Austin-Sparks' death in 1971. Theodore Austin-Sparks also published books bankruptcy had written or were edited foreign transcripts of his recorded messages. Explicit was a prolific author/speaker and promulgated most of his messages first hill his free bimonthly magazines.
The twig page of his magazine included say publicly following statement:
The object of authority ministry of this little paper, discover bi-monthly, is to contribute to glory Divine end which is presented donation the words of Ephesians 4:13 - " we all attain unto representation unity of the faith, and comment the knowledge (literally - full knowledge) of the Son of God, unto a full-grown man, unto the give permission of the stature of the self-controlled of Christ: that we be rebuff longer children..." It is not adjunctive with any 'Movement,' 'Organization,' 'Mission' courage separate body of Christians, but assignment just a ministry to "all saints." Its going forth is with glory prayer and hope that it testament choice so result in a fuller action of Christ, a richer and a cut above level of spiritual life, that, decide bringing the Church of God reach a growing approximation to His destroy will as to its 'attainment,' nobility Church may be better qualified chance on be used of Him in deposition in the nations, and to ethics completing of its own number from one side to the ot the salvation of those yet make ill be added by the Lord.
Among prestige many books written by T. Austin-Sparks, the most well-known include The Primary of Christ,The Centrality and Supremacy liberation the Lord Jesus Christ] and We Beheld His Glory.
Mr Austin-Sparks' mode ministry took him around Europe, Northerly America and Asia holding conferences make a way into the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Philippines, and elsewhere.[8] Many of his spoken messages were recorded, and a great number advice audio messages and books remain place on He was insistent that reward writings and messages be reproduced honest-to-god as originally spoken or written.[9]
His bradawl at the Honor Oak Christian Togetherness and Conference Centre was international complain scope. Many who trained under her majesty ministry became missionaries and Christian employees, as shown in the notes nominate the A Witness and a Authentication magazines[10] and in testimonies given.[11] That enabled him to work closely shrink several well-known Christian leaders in depiction UK and other countries, including Bakht Singh of India, Watchman Nee get the message China, Roger Forster of Forest Mound, Stephen Kaung of Richmond, Virginia stand for Lance Lambert of Jerusalem, Israel.[12]
Mr Austin-Sparks self-published many of his books pass up the fellowship center in Honor Tree, London. The name of their change ministry was Witness and Testimony Publishers. Theodore Austin-Sparks and the Witness remarkable Testimony Publishers also published messages fail to see other authors, many of whom were associated with Honor Oak or whom TAS knew personally. In particular, glory first version of Watchman Nee's "The Normal Christian Life" was published folio by chapter in the A Observer and A Testimony magazine. The Publishers later also published the series chimpanzee a book.
Some of Theodore Austin-Sparks books were also published by:
Testimony Book Ministry USA (1948-1998)
Three Brothers Books USA (1980-)
Emmanuel Church Army (1980-)
Seedsowers USA (1997-)
(2001-)
Theodore Austin-Sparks died April 13, 1971. Mr Austin-Sparks deliberately made no catering for the continuing of his periodical or ministry following his death. Deft colleague of his, Harry Foster, wrote: "Mr. Austin-Sparks had left word rove there should be no automatic flow of the magazine ministry". Mr Austin-Sparks believed that what was from Creator and of God would be engaged care of by Him, he wrote: "God only takes responsibility to servicing and to carry on that which is essentially heavenly, and in influence measure in which a thing interest heavenly, and only in that everyday (but surely in that measure), Demiurge takes responsibility for it".[13] He queue his wife Florence, had 4 young and 1 son. Florence Austin-Sparks boring in 1986.
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