TIMES THAT ARE TIMELESS ...THE STORY OF A REVIVAL OF HOPE AT "THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE."

TIMES THAT ARE TIMELESS may refer to histories that are viewed from their greater, even eternal, perspective. 

(A History of today's Bible-believing Churches of the Cape)

Number 1. - 10/June/ 2016 by Dr. Marc S. Blackwell, Sr

Isaiah 52:7; Nahum 1:15; Romans 10:15 

“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace. Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

The story of a revival of evangelism through Bible-Believing Independent Baptist Churches begins for the Greater Cape Town region more than 25 years ago - in the late 1980s. 

Bringing the message of 'Good Hope' to the Cape of Good Hope ... had been the work of many over the centuries! Yet, now, so much of the Gospel Message, once faithfully preached, had been 'watered-down' or even polluted by the compromises and errors accepted over time. Even a clear memory of true Truth had been lost among the younger generation. ( 1 Tim. 3:1-17) 

News of this general malaise or the listlessness of the social and religious life in South Africa had reached many Bible-believing churches in America. Spiritual 'heroes" like Moffat, Livingstone and Murray were no more. The call to 'Church Planting' missionaries was having an effect. In the Cape couples were arriving from Tennessee, Indiana, Canada and Seattle.

Spiritual leadership and evangelistic fervor would come to the Cape in the 1980s. Names like the: Jacksons, Meyers, Rudolphs, Blackwells and Devores were arriving. Steps were being taken to meet the need for evangelism. The potential for Bible preaching churches was once again (after a fifty year spiritual drought) a real part of the spiritual life of the Western Cape Province. South African Christian leaders were being stepping forward and joining in this serious 'outreach' in: Somerset West, Macassar, Newlands, Durbanville and Blue Downs - with souls being saved and lives being changed.

The message of true Hope for 'the Cape of Good Hope' was simple: "But what does it say? 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart' (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:8-9