Lynn Green and his wife Marti first came to England and began the work of Youth With A Mission here in 1971. From 2004-2011 Lynn was YWAM's International Chairman. He continues to convene YWAM's global leadership meetings and focuses much of his energy on international leadership development. In past years Lynn has been much involved in serving other movements and organizations, including Challenge 2000 (the DAWN movement in England), and "March for Jesus", of which he was a founder.
He is currently a trustee of CARE Trust. Lynn also directed the "Reconciliation Walk", when thousands of Christians prayerfully retraced the route of the First Crusade, thereby helping to defuse 900 years of bitterness between Muslims, Christians and Jews.
Continuing the series, Lynn Green tackles why genuine revivals so often fizzle out quickly. He revisits his Eagle Grove story with a new detail — a tense theological interrogation by local ministers that nearly shut it down — before drawing a striking parallel between revival's "afterburner" intensity and the sustained "cruise altitude" of ongoing holiness that must follow. He closes with a candid personal account of drifting into counterfeit, "soulish" prophecy in the pursuit of spiritual power, warning that emotional intensity can easily be mistaken for the Holy Spirit's genuine work.
Chapters:
▶️ (00:00:00) — Awakening vs. Revival, and the Role of Intercessors
Lynn distinguishes today's "spiritual awakening" (rising interest in faith, public figures coming out as Christian) from true revival (a heaven-sent, unmistakable conviction of sin and holiness), then makes the case — via Peter Wagner's statistic that only ~2% of believers carry a specific gift of intercession — that sustained, often invisible prayer is the necessary precursor that opens the door to genuine revival.
▶️ (00:16:42) — Why elders nearly shut down Eagle Grove?
A previously untold detail from the Eagle Grove story: local town ministers, alarmed the movement might be a cult, summoned Lynn for a tense theological interrogation — and despite disagreeing sharply with his theology, ultimately chose to support what was clearly happening in their young people's lives, opening their churches to the meetings.
▶️ (00:23:17) — Revival's "Afterburners": Why Intensity Can't Last?
Using the image of a jet's afterburners (needed for takeoff, but switched off once cruising), Lynn argues that revival's intense initial power is meant to launch believers into a sustained "cruise" of ordinary holiness — reading Scripture, fellowship, daily obedience — and that revivals often falter precisely because leaders try to keep the initial intensity going indefinitely rather than transitioning into steady spiritual growth.
▶️ (00:30:40) — The Danger of "Soulish" Counterfeit Gifts
Drawing again on Watchman Nee's The Latent Power of the Soul, Lynn tells a candid personal story of striving to replicate the prophetic gifting he admired in close friends — eventually realising he was reading people's souls rather than hearing from God — and warns that as more young people involved in occult practices seek deliverance, leaders must guard against emotional intensity masquerading as genuine spiritual gifting.
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** This is a personal podcast and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth with A Mission.**
website - https://lynngreen.blog
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20 Feb 2026
#289 - Is this Really Revival? part 2
Continuing the series, Lynn Green revisits YWAM's founding season with a key correction from Darlene Cunningham: the real theme of those early revivals wasn't revival itself, but the revelation of God's nature and character — the true common thread from Jonathan Edwards through Charles Finney to the Hebrides. He shares a striking eyewitness letter about a 1973 youth revival, traces the hidden intercessors (Peggy and Christine Smith, Mabel White, Joy Dawson) behind history's great awakenings, and closes by previewing next week's topic: why revival so often provokes opposition from church leadership.
Chapters:
▶️ (00:00:00) — Correction: It Was Never About Revival Itself
Recapping last week's story, Lynn shares a key correction from a call with Darlene Cunningham and Marty: the early YWAM founders' formative teaching sessions weren't actually themed around revival, but around the revelation of God's nature and character — a thread running through the First Great Awakening's Wesley, Whitefield, Edwards, and Finney despite their theological differences.
▶️ (00:17:12) — A 1973 Eyewitness Account and the Pattern That Repeats
Lynn reads a lengthy letter from a former YWAM student describing a spontaneous 1973 youth revival at a Baptist church — complete with spontaneous unified singing, healing, and over a hundred conversions — that was ultimately shut down and pushed underground by cautious elders, echoing his own Eagle Grove story and revealing another hidden intercessor behind it.
▶️ (00:20:59) — The Hidden Work of Intercessors Across History
A survey of the unseen prayer warriors behind major revivals: Peggy and Christine Smith in the Hebrides, Mabel White in Iowa, Joy Dawson's international intercessory ministry, and Father Nash's practice of praying ahead of Charles Finney's preaching tours — all illustrating that sustained, often obscure intercession consistently precedes visible moves of God.
▶️ (00:29:21) — Setting Up Next Week: Why Revival Gets Opposed
Lynn closes with his own story of praying "concerts of prayer" with Graham Kendrick in early-1980s London (which later fed into March for Jesus), reflects on why cautious local church leaders often resist revival's disruption, and previews next week's topic: why revival is so often opposed by those responsible for others' spiritual wellbeing, especially in today's safeguarding-conscious environment.
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** This is a personal podcast and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth with A Mission.**
website - https://lynngreen.blog
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063522648400
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@MrCLynnGreen
13 Feb 2026
#288 - Is this Really Revival? part 1
Lynn Green traces YWAM's own origin story back to a 1969 New Zealand conference where a young Loren Cunningham crossed paths with revivalist Duncan Campbell — asking whether today's "quiet revival" buzz meets the historic bar for the word. Along the way he recounts YWAM's earliest days in Switzerland, months of sustained intercession for revival, and his own vivid, first-hand account of a three-week youth revival breaking out in a small Iowa town in 1970 — sparked, he later learned, by the decades of hidden prayer of one bedridden intercessor.
Chapters:
▶️ (00:00:00) — Origins: Lauren Cunningham and the New Zealand Conference
Lynn traces YWAM's founding back to a pivotal 1969 conference in New Zealand, where Loren Cunningham met revivalist Duncan Campbell and other key intercessors, received the prompting to start a training school in Switzerland, and set in motion the school Lynn himself would join later that year.
▶️ (00:13:27) — Building the First School Around Sustained Prayer for Revival
The early Lausanne training school takes shape — weeks of daily intercession, teaching from Duncan Campbell and other revival-focused speakers, and Lynn's own experience of climbing the hills above the school at night to pray fervently for revival, all setting a template that has stayed with him for 55 years.
▶️ (00:22:34) — The Decision to Go Back, and a Small Town Called Eagle Grove
A personal, high-stakes account of nearly abandoning his missionary calling after returning home, until a phone call from Loren redirects him to a small Iowa town — where a modest youth night in a bare church living room unexpectedly breaks open into weeping, confession, and repentance among a dozen teenagers.
▶️ (00:30:24) — Three Weeks of Revival, and the Hidden Intercessor Behind It
What began as one meeting multiplies into three weeks of packed-out gatherings, culminating in over a thousand young people turning out and 125 committing their lives to Christ — and Lynn's later discovery, 40 years on, that a bedridden, multiple-sclerosis-afflicted intercessor named Mabel White had been praying for those exact teenagers by name for years.
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** This is a personal podcast and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth with A Mission.**
website - https://lynngreen.blog
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063522648400
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@MrCLynnGreen
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