Author SELWYN HUGHES
Publisher CWR
ISBN 1-85435-296-3
This is the autobiography of a man prominent in Christian circles in the United Kingdom, especially through the 1960’s until the time of his death in 2006. He completed this account of his life in 2003 and it was published the following year under the auspices of the publishing department of the organization he founded, the Crusade for World Revival. The book is long and detailed, perhaps a little overlong, but it does chronicle, not only his life and growth in the knowledge of the Lord, but also it goes into considerable detail about his own ministry and the growth of the work that he pioneered. There is a honesty about this account of what became a significant and continuing Christian parachurch work involved in encouraging Spirit filled living by the use of seminars of various kinds dealing with Christian counseling through to evangelism. From his childhood church roots the issue of revival figured strongly. He came from a Welsh background and was born some years after the Revival that took place in that land around 1905. His parents and others influential in his early life had their spiritual life steeped in that revival ethos and so his early ministerial life was involved with the British Assemblies of God and then the Elim Pentecostal denomination and then when in the early 1960’s the renewal movement began in the United Kingdom he became involved with many across the denominations. His interest in Christian psychology deepened and his desire to encourage Christian counseling techniques led him to study under some in the United States committed to such methods. He was innovative and in ways entrepreneurial and very willing to experiment with any thing that could encourage and enhance God’s work in the world. He confessed that he was more of a visionary pioneer and evangelist than pastor and is at times quite candid about his tendency towards and autocratic approach to leadership and also to the fact that he was more married to his Christian work than to his wife. These things he was led to change, he was very ready to learn and keep learning and perhaps the more so as he passed into the period of the loss of his wife to cancer and then his own battle with that disease and finally, the death’s of his two sons. He was then, no stranger to suffering. Many will know of his name through his most famous publications, the long running ‘Every Day With Jesus.’ These were daily reading notes he authored through many years although he also authored other books too. He contributed greatly to the Christian church both in the UK and abroad. He was a man of vision and dedication to the Lord Jesus.
