I really don't have a viewpoint on this. Here are the facts as I know them.
The Pentecostal religion was started in the Topeka, Kansas in 1901 by Charles F. Parkham
Assemblies of God, which has similor beliefs, grew out of Pentecostalism in 1914 in Hot Springs, Az.
Another similar group, Four-square Gospel, was started by Aimee Semple McPherson in L.A. in 1917.
That's about all I know of them.
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Ora, ora pro nobis.
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
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HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUMQUOD PRO VOBIS TRADÈTUR.
(Luke 22:19 b - This isMy body which is given up for you.)
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Dirige, Dominus Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam
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Agnus Dei Qui tolis peccata mundi miserere nobis.
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Adoramus te, Christe
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"I have set before you life and death, a blessing and a curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live" -Deuteronomy 30:19
-In Dec. 1900 -Around the stroke of midnight Dec. 31st 1900 a young woman by the name of Agnus Ozman began to speak words that people did not understand. -Speaking in tongues must be the evidence that someone has received the Spirit.
A. Charles Fox Parham (1873-1929)—the first rumblings in Topeka -teaching at a holiness college in Houston, Texas -he was teaching on his bible study and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit along with the speaking in tongues -The most fundamental teaching of the Pentacostal movement is Spirit Baptism with the initial evidence of tongues after salvation.
B. William Seymour (1870-1922) and Azusa Street
- There was a black man that was sitting outside in the hallway listening to the lectures oThe man’s name was William Seymour oAbout midway through the semester, Seymour is invited to come to Los Angeles oIt is an integrated church and they want Seymour to come and be one of the pastors oThis is in April of 1906 oAfter a few days he breaks out in tongues oSoon other people begin speaking in tongues oThey soon move to a building on Azusa St.; it will become known as the Azusa st. revival oPeople begin coming from everywhere -E.N. Bell became the first supertendent of the Assembly of God
-there was the Church of God Pentecostal in Clevelend Tn -they split and form the Church of God of Prophecy -The Church of God in Christ is a predominately black Pentecostal religion
There is the spread of Pentecostal denominations which begin to pop up all across the nation.*
*These notes are from my Church History II class with Dr. Chad Brand
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been here? http://www.spirithome.com/histpent.html
not sure how accurate it is but a lot of what they say I've read elsewhere.
tulc(baptized in the Spirit over 35 years ago)
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