Toronto Blessing
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Sep 9, 2026
William TaylorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's just ordinary godliness, and yet it's supernatural in Crete.
William TaylorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Remember Dick, when the Toronto Blessing, which was an absolute scourge on the church, was at, uh, was at its height, and people at Holy Trinity Brompton were falling over and barking like dogs and behaving like idiots.
William TaylorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, Dick was asked, "What do you think of the Toronto Blessing?" And he said, "It's not what they do when they fall over that matters.
William TaylorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's what they do when they stand up." In other words, how are they actually living their life? True spirituality is there in Titus chapter two.
William TaylorSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So what produces it? Here is God's strategy for his church.
Michael CootsGUEST
We saw this happen in Toronto.
Michael CootsGUEST
How many are familiar with the Toronto Blessing, the Toronto Revival, the Renewal Movement? When Toronto happened, what does it say? It's known for reviving the experience of the unconditional love of God.
Michael CootsGUEST
It was reviving something that was dormant.
Michael CootsGUEST
The unconditional love of God was dormant at that time, and it literally revived something in people.
Michael CootsGUEST
People can get healed.
Michael CootsGUEST
We experience transformation when the presence of God is present.
Michael CootsGUEST
And so we saw a reviving of this in Azusa and Brownsville, which was on the heels of the Toronto Revival, was known for reviving repentance and holiness.
Michael CootsGUEST
And it was only like a year or two after the Toronto Revival, so they kind of were both going simultaneously but had different emphases.
Connie SinnottGUEST
Toronto.
Trisha WarrenHOST
Yeah, Toronto Blessing started, I think, in 94.
Trisha WarrenHOST
I remember because I was there in January 94.
Trisha WarrenHOST
And yeah, so that just turned you, got you traveling all over the world.
Jordan MaxwellHOST
They put out books and magazines called Holy Laughter.
Jordan MaxwellHOST
So in churches, they've got this demonic depravity thing where they all get seized with the laughter called the Toronto Blessing, the Pensacola Blessing.
Jordan MaxwellHOST
My hometown is very famous for this kind of silliness.
Jordan MaxwellHOST
Christians sit in church all day long and laugh.
DaveyPANELIST
It's kind of like you don't have to have a higher IQ to know that what she's doing is unbiblical and totally wrong and, you know, just off the wall.
DaveyPANELIST
You know, the whole thing in the bookstore, I kind of wonder if it was kind of a mix of... know bad b-grade acting you know with some of it faked and staged you know oh not saying it was all maybe there was some you know uh mystical um what do you call it um you know horrible I don't want to call it the Slain in the Spirit stuff, but you know what I mean, like the Toronto Blessing stuff happening again, that kind of stuff, you know, that horrible kind of stuff, or whether it was the fact that it's had a book signing at a bookstore and they think, oh, this might be a good way if we kind of fake a bit of this or do a bit of this kind of thing, you know, it'll be a good way to promote the book.
DaveyPANELIST
I think I walked past the book signing and saw some people on the ground like having epileptic seizures.
DaveyPANELIST
I'm thinking, I think I'll mark and avoid that one.
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ElonPANELIST
In some cases you do get, when I say they are, you can actually sometimes have real signs.
ElonPANELIST
quote-unquote, signs or wonders happening, but they can be counterfeit in that they are demonic in origin.
ElonPANELIST
And I would say with a lot of things like this Toronto Blessing thing, which keeps cropping up time and again since...
ElonPANELIST
I mean, the 1990s weren't the first occurrences of Toronto-like manifestations.
Duncan SmithGUEST
We went in May to, well, we first went in 1999.
Duncan SmithGUEST
For one night.
Duncan SmithGUEST
For one night.
Duncan SmithGUEST
And it was okay.
Duncan SmithGUEST
Yeah.
Duncan SmithGUEST
You know, in Toronto, we had an average of a thousand people every single night for 12 years apart from Monday nights, which we took off after six months, you know.
Duncan SmithGUEST
john and carol realized we can't keep going at that level but some nights you know there could be up to 7 000 people you know especially in our youth conference and then you know but an average every night of over a thousand people coming from all over the world and we got immersed into it like halfway through you know in five with about five years after it began and and the power of god was just so immense in that moment and and people would be And this was the amazing thing is that John Arnott had this way of asking people, okay, what was God doing when you were sprinting around the entire auditorium or on the ground and you're going like this? One pastor who pastors like a thousand people church from somewhere close to Washington, D.C., a Methodist pastor.
Duncan SmithGUEST
And he's on the platform because, you know, John had sort of gone like that towards him.
John CollinsHOST
Kansas City, that's a big one.
John CollinsHOST
Kansas City Prophets, the Toronto Blessing, Pensacola, Florida, Bethel, all of these different locations.
John CollinsHOST
It is a movement that keeps decentralizing itself because they're trying to put the authority of of the movement into a specific location, into a specific set of God's generals.
John CollinsHOST
In other words, the humans own the movement.
David LeachGUEST
Peggy Smith, 84 and blind, Christina Smith, 82 and often unable to go to church because of her severe arthritis, prayed over and over again, night after night, year after year, from their little cottage, declaring Isaiah 44:3, "I will pour out water upon him who is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground." God, awaken our community, and God answered.
David LeachGUEST
And last, but certainly not least, before the Toronto Blessing in 1994, The River, the revival that changed so many of our own lives, many like John and Carol Arnott had already begun praying early in the mornings, giving up their mornings to pray for one thing, that God would p- pour out a fresh anointing, a deeper work of the Holy Spirit.
David LeachGUEST
Little did they know that God would touch the whole world from this praying community in Toronto.
David LeachGUEST
My own father-in-law, Dr. Randy Clark, who became a spark igniting the flame, years prior to being sent to Toronto, cried out to God and said, "I'm not gonna eat until you touch me.
John CollinsHOST
And I began to think through that, why do they get to own the revival? [laughs] There are so many different Christians around the globe, even back then.
John CollinsHOST
Why was this w- little subsect of people part of this movement? And if it were to be the end of days revival and God was going to suddenly return, why did it fizzle out and they had to have a second revival? And after the second revival fizzled out, why a third and a fourth and a fifth? You can just go through, you know, Toronto Blessing.
John CollinsHOST
You can go to all of these different big revivals that claim, "This is it.
John CollinsHOST
This is God pouring himself out," but yet they keep happening, and all of the things that they claim associated with that revival never happen.
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John CollinsHOST
And whenever they talk about the locations of the famous revivals, most of those are in the United States.
John CollinsHOST
Some of them, yes, did happen abroad, and they do get connected in.
John CollinsHOST
But by and large, we're talking about Toronto Blessing, we're talking about Florida, we're talking about Azusa Street.
John CollinsHOST
We're talking about all of these things that are happening on the North American continent.