Help me! You're my best and most coolest friend. Thankyou Joe, Thank you Joe, Thank you soooo much for helping me. I love you. Thank you Joe. You're a great friend! Actually a friend might find such excessive emotion somewhat strange and suspect that there was some amount of insincerity or phoniness involved.
This previous refrain would be comparable to a Charismatic Christian or Pentecostal in prayer saying, "Oh Lord God almighty I feel your presence. I worship you Lord with all my heart and soul.
I praise you-- for you are the Alpha and Omega the beginning and end. Praise God Almighty! Forgive me for I have sinned. Separate my sins as far as East is to West. Oh Lord Hallelujah. You are so holy, help me Lord, help me Lord. For you are the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. This repetitive memorized prayer technique does not seem natural or spontaneous. It is instead a contrived jargon taken from the bible seemingly for effect. Prophecies are in the bible.
They are mentioned throughout the bible, especially within the books of Daniel and Revelation. However, there are differing types of prophecy.
The books of Daniel and Revelation are prophetic about the future. Other types of prophecy include those used to build up and edify the church 1 Corinthians: It is important to note that the term prophecy means different things to different people. Some see it as superstitious, something that comes from fortunetellers with a crystal ball. Others see it as addressing social catastrophes in the world that have been predicted.
Culpepper: Most Christian churches today seem to see prophecy as inspired preaching or encouragement. They also see prophecy as predominantly historical as expressed through the time of prophets and apostles recorded in the bible. However, Charismatic Christians and Pentecostals see prophecies as contemporary and common today. And also, the Pentecostal tends to view the idea of prophecy as either addressing something that has been predicted or as inspired encouragement or preaching.
Some Christian groups have gone too far with prophecy, which when used incorrectly, can generate superstition and even turn some people away. For example, within many Pentecostal churches I visited prophecy time usually comes after or during praise and worship services. The music and tongues die down, but gently and persistently keep playing whilst the ministers voice rose to a firm pitch.
Then, the minister would pick people out of the crowd and rebuke them of sin or tell them what they should or should not do about their current situation. Many vague metaphors and emotionally charged words were used. For example: "Don't change the way you are, you are beautiful and your life will flow like abundant rivers. Some were so shaken that they fell back and had to be caught by another church elder. These so-called prophecies seemed to target a specific person rather than include the entire church.
How then can this really be considered as edifying the church? Again, as I said before, I was often in fear that the minister would one-day single me out. It is this very fear that the many of the more manipulative churches may operate upon. Such fear is used as a tool to ensure that the convert stays in line and keeps on track. Sometimes a Pentecostal church might clearly use such "prophecy" to manipulate and judge a member.
Another prophecy I once heard stated, "Oh come to me my flock, come to me and you will never thirst of grow weary. It is obvious that this kind of talk doesn't really do much to edify the church in a reasonable manner. It seems that members are just allowing themselves to move into a kind of transcended temporary mode and going along with the flow without questioning or challenging themselves.
They really do believe that what the minister is saying comes directly from God and that no one else knows about it. However, it also seems that if a member is said to be behaving in a devious manner, or a member chooses to share with another fellow member about a distressing situation they're in--it's not surprising that the first place the fellow member will disclose this information will be to the pastor.
Such information often enables the minister to manipulate his flock. And since the issues are either addressed or condemned in the public worship space, it seems that the problems people are undergoing are not necessarily kept confidential.
The manipulative techniques of so-called prophecies may cause long-lasting psychological and mental damage. For example, one problem that exists within some Pentecostal churches regarding prophecies, is when a person speaks out and has not necessarily been commanded to do so by God. In such a situation, another member of the church is to weigh what is being said and tell that person to be quiet.
In such a circumstance there is also the danger of not speaking out. Furthermore, many prophecies, which have been made, are untrue. In many cases these prophecies generate unreasonable fears within believers.
They may constantly seek to ask God what it meant. Such a dilemma often leads to a type of mysticism and superstition, which is inconsistent with the bible. One might compare such prophecy to looking into a crystal ball or tarot cards. Howard is certainly correct to argue that some Charismatic Christians have a similar worldview to the New Age movement and to other groups such as Christian Science.
This argument is further consolidated in their attitudes to sicknesses and healing. Within the Charismatic and Pentecostal movements the system of dualism is deeply entrenched. There are often sharp divisions, which are emphasized between the good as opposed to the bad, and the godly as opposed to the ungodly. There is little leeway for gray areas or ambiguity. Such an attitude leads to an intensified dogmatic and simplistic attitude to the bible and to life situations in general.
For example, in relation to sicknesses and illnesses within there is an attitude that "He's sick because he has an unconfessed sin. If these assertions are valid, why is it that so many people today, who harbor a grudge, are not sick? Think of all the Christians and non-Christians alike who have unconfessed sins.
Some are jealous, lustful, arrogant, and boastful. Since ALL of us have unconfessed sins, why is it that some aren't sick? But instead only some of us are sick, while others are not. Just because someone is sick, doesn't necessarily mean that person has an unconfessed sin or is harboring a grudge. Such an attitude within the Church is dangerous. See Matthew First, this is a judgmental attitude. Church should be a place for building up people.
And church should never be a place to make someone feel they're somehow less of a person for being ill. Any assertions made about someone being sick because he or she holds some grudge is clearly biblically incorrect.
Christians believe humans suffer in this world because we live after the fall, i. Many Pentecostal Christians attend huge healing gatherings whereby anyone who's sick is encouraged to attend in the hope of being healed.
Perhaps the most prominent healing ministry within the so-called Pentecostal "Word of Faith" movement are the Benny Hinn crusades. Ten of thousands of people often attend a single Benny Hinn crusade, which are frequently held in huge stadiums. Benny Hinn has his own television show, which is used to publicize so-called "miracles" of healing. The program includes Benny Hinn teaching, Benny Hinn and his believers in praise and worship and Benny Hinn healing the sick.
What's most astounding is the fact that Mr. Hinn has even claimed the ability to heal people watching his rerun shows. Although some people are said to have broken legs and crutches have been thrown onto the stage, this does not necessarily mean a person has been healed. It is important to objectively evaluate any healing not evident to the naked eye by a process of expert medical review. Hence critical thinking is required. According to Schwertley, Jesus Christ healed people entirely who were permanently deformed i.
Jesus healed in public places spontaneously in front of both non-believers and believers. Luke He even made the dead come to life. For example: Lazarus. Jesus healed people so that they might come and believe in Christ.
Matthew Quite the contrary, modern faith healers like Benny Hinn only appear to be able to heal temporary, common illnesses such as back pain, mouth ulcers, and leg pain. Furthermore, modern healers today seem to heal largely if not exclusively in front of their own following in planned and confined Christian settings.
Weren't miracles such as healing supposed to be a sign for both non-believers and believers rather than just for believers? Something is clearly not quite right if these so-called healers are only conducting healing miracles in front of believers.
Are these modern healers really what they claim to be? But should God's gifts be used for show? They then draw substantial salaries and expenses, fly first class, buy expensive cars and often live in exclusive neighborhoods.
Healing crusades appear to be big business and generate big money. Within the "Faith Movement" many people have been told that they don't need to take their medications anymore. Taking this advice some really believed they were healed and died as a result Cited within a "60 Minutes" episode. Such tragedies will hopefully cause people to question and consider such advice more clearly.
Belief in healing should be coupled with a proper medical examination, before any medication or medical treatment is ended.
To many outsiders, the movement would appear to represent a frightening return to medievalism and superstition. According to Robin Arnaud, "Pentecostalism has become the largest and fastest-growing form of Christianity on earth! Yet in its wake it leaves broken lives, false hopes, a warped view of God and man, and often, especially in the United States, financial ruin.
An exodus of believers from such churches began a few years ago and have now become a torrent! Former Pentecostals and ex-Charismatics may soon become the second-largest and second fastest growing Christian groups on earth. Charismatic Christians certainly appear to be zealous in their attempts to gain converts and create miracles. But by acting too extreme the net result may be a judgmental attitude and causing division in the church rather than edifying it.
Many Charismatics seem to love showing mainstream Christians how things should be done. Again, the example stated previously, "We're baptized in the spirit, we speak in tongue, that means you should learn from us. Charismatic Christians also tend to focus perhaps too much on feelings and personal experiences rather than the bible.
They place their emphasis largely upon "spiritual gifts" rather than on Christ, who He was, what He said and did. As a result, they often become inward thinking and self-centered rather than focused on Christ and what He wants us to be.
In my own personal experience as a Pentecostal Christian, Jesus became clouded like a distant figure. In some cases it seems Pentecostal groups may almost worship a different Jesus and some are apparently heretical according to Christian scholars. For example, the so-called "Oneness" or "Jesus Only" Pentecostals, which are largely comprised by the denomination known as the United Pentecostal Church.
In today's society, it's easy for Christians to become caught up with what spiritual gift you have and what spiritual gift you don't have. And as a direct result many Christians seem to forget about who Christ is and their own salvation. It can be destructive to become so focused on works and so self-absorbed. There is a diverse range of Pentecostal and charismatic groups.
They cannot all be considered "cult like. Moreover, the Holy Spirit is a counsellor who is always present in the lives of the people and reminds them what Christ said and did. The Holy Spirit also intercedes according to the will of God on behalf of the children of God.
The Holy Spirit is again existent in the communal life of the church, where He inspires harmony, service and worship. His existence is become conscious when the church is open and responsive to leadership in spirit. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit is the one that gives various gifts to the believers in regard to the will and purpose of God Romans ; Ephesians Again, the Spirit builds up people to be good leaders in the church.
The 13 Boyd, Khristadvaita They experienced many of the same manifestations that are taking place today. Some shook like a cloth in the wind, others roared and screamed or fell down with involuntary laughter. He witnessed the same manifestations as Wesley. Whitefield wrote of many falling to the ground, trembling exceedingly with strong convulsions. The noise was like a roar of Niagara. The vast sea of human beings as agitated by a storm. Seized with convulsive jerking all over. It was reported that people shook and lips quivered as many fell to the ground with shrieks and shouts.
Peter Cartwright was a prominent revivalist in Cane Ridge. He is often credited as being the instrument to bring , conversions from to Finney witnessed the same manifestations as we are witnessing today. He reported spasmodic laughter; it was impossible to keep people from laughing, phenomena of speechlessness for hours, fainting spells.
The congregation began to fall from their seats in every direction. I was obliged to stop preaching. The Quakers got their nickname from many cases of people who physically quaked in their meets whenever the Holy Spirit moved with heightened spiritual activity.
Fox had tremendous influence for righteousness during his generation, leading thousands to Jesus. The accounts of the Azusa Street revival describe many shaking, speechlessness, motionlessness, being enraptured, drunk in the Spirit, laughter, visions, tongues, prophecy, and the like.
So the emergence of Pentecostalism in the next century may be seen as a natural development of forces that had been set in motion much earlier. Such events happened not only in the eighteenth and nineteenth century but throughout the centuries.
Revivals were occurred at various parts of the world during this period viz. It is not easy to ascribe the origin of the movement to a particular place or person.
This vision was carried out by his followers which resulted in revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The first general awakening began in the second quarter of the 18 century among the settlers in New Jersey and refugees from Moravia. The second awakening began in Britain in among the Methodists. The third awakening occurred in , in which Charles Finney was the chief figure. The fourth awakening started in USA in In , the awakening was received with enthusiasm by the secular press and was supported by most Protestant denomination.
Moody took it up in the and a major outcome was the founding of the Student Volunteer Movement organised in , which played a pivotal role in the promotion of revivals through its emphasis on the deepening of spiritual life. Countries like Japan, China, Korea and Iran welcome the tide of revival during the second half of the 19 th century.
This was the second world-wide evangelical revival. John Wesley had already made a distinction between the sanctified, or those who had been baptized in the Spirit, and ordinary Christians.
This view was adopted and simplified by the evangelists and theologians of the American Holiness Movement. The emphasis of the Holiness Movement on spiritual experience and its tradition of seeking God created a receptive mood for the Pentecostal revivals. Thus it is clear that the immediate roots of the modern day Pentecostalism lay in the Holiness revivals of the second half 19 th century. Though there were simultaneously spontaneous revivals in many part of the world, Pentecostal historians, mainly from the West, generally agree that the modern Pentecostal Movement had its origin in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Parham is best known for formulating the classical Pentecostal theology linking the baptism of the Holy Spirit and tongues as the Bible evidence of the filling of the Holy Spirit. James R Goff, who has written the most thorough and well-documented biography of Parham, portrays him as the authentic father of the world wide Pentecostal Movement, and his Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, as its birthplace.
Charles F. Parham who was the key person in formulating the doctrine of speaking in tongues was a Methodist minister in the early part of the 20th century. He left Methodist Church because of certain ideological differences and became an independent evangelical preacher and remained a preacher for about 35 years. In he founded the Bethel Healing Home in Topeka, and in he opened an informal Bible school for Christian workers where about 40 students registered for the first batch.
It is claimed by the Pentecostal that Miss. Agens N. Ozmen, one of the Bible school students first experience the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues; and thus occupies a unique place in the modern Pentecostal Movement. Since many Holiness groups claim different proofs for the baptism in the Holy Spirit, Parham, a Holiness preacher, assigned his students to find out the biblical evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit.
As a result of continuous prayer to the experience described in the book of acts, Agnez N. Ozman first received baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Parham also received this experience, and along with twelve other students and they propagated this teaching in Texas and Missouri. He was a student of Bible School that was run by Parham. Seymour was allowed only to listen outside the classroom through a half open door because he was Black.
After his experience of the baptism in Holy Spirit at the school with speaking in tongues, Seymour was invited by a women pastor, Neelly Terry, of holiness church, in Los Angeles to preach.
However, because of his doctrine on the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he after sometime was no more allowed to preach.
Therefore, Seymour continued having meeting elsewhere, in the house of one of the congregation. The turning point was on the 9th April, , when an eight year of Black boy started speaking in tongues. These new events at Azusa started attracting people, and make Azusa Street the home for the global Pentecostal Movement.
It was a meeting together of Blacks, Whites and Hispanics. They worship together and share responsibilities together crossing the barriers like race, gender etc. Seymour, a Black Holiness preacher and a student of Parham, was used for the Azusa Street revival which began in , and it continued for three years. People from America, Europe, and third world countries received baptism in the Holy Spirit and they spread the teaching in different countries.
Within a short period, the Pentecostalism spread outward from the revival of Azusa Street and became a third force in Christendom. According to Leonard Lovett both Parham and Seymour share equal position as founders of modern Pentecostalism.
Parham laid the doctrinal foundation of the movement, while Seymour serves as the catalytic agent for its popularization. Other Pentecostals, from the Reformed tradition or touched by the Keswick teachings on the Higher Christian Life, came to view sanctification not as a crisis experience, but as an ongoing quest. This debate resulted in the first major schism among early Pentecostals. Acts The membership is predominantly African-American with more than 6. The Church has congregations in 63 countries around the world.
It was formed in by a group of disfellowshiped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones — and Charles Harrison Mason — In the s, C. Jones and C. Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippi who taught a Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection or Entire Sanctification as a second work of grace to their Baptist congregations.
In June , C. Jones held a Holiness convention at Mt. Mason and others from several states. Mason as controversial and expelled C. Jones, C. Mason, and others who embraced the Wesleyan teaching of Entire Sanctification. In after being expelled from preaching in local Baptist churches under the Mississippi State Convention, Elder Mason founded the St. Mason's visit to the Azusa Street Revival in changed the direction of the newly formed holiness church.
During his visit, C. Mason received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Upon his return to Jackson, Mississippi, not everyone was willing to accept such Pentecostal experience. At the Convocation held in Jackson, a mutual separation occurred because of biblical disagreements about the Pentecostal experience by C. Jones and other Holiness leaders. After mutual separation with contemporary Holiness leaders, C.
Former Baptist Richard Green Spurling preached in a millhouse along Barney Creek and eight persons formed a Christian Union for the purpose of following the New Testament as their rule for faith and practice, giving each other equal rights and privilege to interpret Scripture, and sitting together as the church of God.
Twenty-one years later the growing movement formally adopted the name Church of God. Under the leadership of our first General Overseer, A. Tomlinson, the Church of God adopted a centralized form of Church government with an inclusive International General Assembly , launched a world evangelization effort beginning in the Bahamas , inaugurated the Church of God Evangel , and established educational opportunities for ministers and members Some 36, congregations serve around the world, while regional and international ministries provide resources and support through our divisions of World Evangelization, Care, Discipleship, Education, and Support Services.
With roots in the mid-western and south-eastern United States, the Pentecostal Holiness Church has played a significant role within the movement from the beginning. The character of the church is to be seen from two major revival movements: the holiness revival of the late 19th century, and the Pentecostal revival of the 20th century.
As its distinctive contribution to contemporary Christianity, this church has attempted to preserve the Wesleyan tradition, theological roots Wesley's teachings on sanctification while perpetuating the Pentecostal tradition.
The founding fathers and mothers of the Assemblies of God met in Hot Springs, Arkansas on April , to promote unity and doctrinal stability, establish legal standing, coordinate the mission enterprise, and establish a ministerial training school. From the beginning, evangelism and missions have been central to the identity of the Assemblies of God and have resulted in a continuing growth at home and abroad. In , the Assemblies of God claimed a constituency in the United States of 3,, adherents; 12, churches; and 36, ministers.
The General Council supported 2, foreign missionaries and associates working with the broader World Assemblies of God Fellowship, whose adherents numbered more than 67 million.
Ministers and leaders are trained in 2, foreign Bible schools and extension programs. The Assemblies of God has 17 endorsed Bible colleges, universities, and a seminary in the United States. Ezekiel saw God revealed as a being with four different faces: a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle.
To Aimee, those four faces were like the four phases of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the face of the man, she saw Jesus our Savior. In the face of the lion, she saw Jesus the mighty Baptizer with the Holy Spirit and fire. In the face of the ox, she saw Jesus the Great Burden-Bearer, who took our infirmities and carried our sicknesses. In the face of the eagle, she saw Jesus the Coming King, who will return in power and victory for the church. It was a perfect, complete Gospel.
Headquarters are in Los Angeles. A related group, the Foursquare Gospel Church of Canada, reported 3, members and 54 congregations in ; its headquarters are in Surrey, British Columbia. As of , it had a worldwide membership of over 8,,, with almost 60, churches in countries. The church was formally organized in as adherents of Trinitarian beliefs and in re-organized as a Oneness Pentecostal organization after many members withdrew from the Assemblies of God during the Jesus Only controversy, a movement that denied the standard Pentecostal belief in the Trinity - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
PAW was originally an interracial church. But it was divided by the splitting off of the whites into the Pentecostal Church in The Pentecostal Assemblies of the World baptizes in the name of Jesus rather than in the name of the Trinity. In organization it resembles Methodism. Its Headquarters are in Indianapolis. From churches in , the UPCI has grown to 40, churches including preaching points , 35, credentialed ministers, and a constituency of 3,, in nations and territories.
Worldwide, the organization counts a total membership of over 4 million. It houses offices for its general officials and seven divisions. Among the endorsed institutions of the UPCI are six Bible colleges, a Christian college, a graduate school, two training institutes, a children's home, a residency for troubled young men, a ministry to those addicted to alcohol and other drugs, an adoption agency with a home for unwed mothers, a chaplaincy for prisoners, a radio ministry, an agency for community educational services, and an international relief agency.
It also endorses chaplains to the military. The distinguishing belief of the United Pentecostal Church is its doctrine of the oneness of God, the opposite of the Trinity. A comparison would be a male who is, himself, a husband, a son, and a father all at the same time. UPCI also believes in baptism by immersion, in the name of Jesus, and speaking in tongues as a sign of receiving the Holy Spirit. Thomas, there are largely five types of Pentecostals. The main distinctive theological aspects of classical Pentecostalism were the doctrine of the baptism in Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues as the initial physical evidence of the Holy Spirit baptism.
They do not leave their churches, but remain loyal within them. As a result, Pentecostalism is today found in all the regions of the World, and is still growing. It is the largest non-Catholic Christian presence in Latin America. It has grown enormously throughout Africa, often giving rise to African Independent or Indigenous churches.
In Asia, Pentecostalism is strong in places like the Philippines, Korea, India, and among the majority of house churches in China. The largest Pentecostal congregations in the world are found in Seoul and Surabaya. It is these churches that have been most open to the ecumenical movement. Some of them became members of the WCC in the s, and a good number have joined the Latin American Council of Churches after it was formed in Though the leaders of the revival did not organize any missionary society, the enthusiasm for world evangelization inspired — men and women, clergy and laity, blacks and whites — to set out as missionaries overseas.
As completely directed by the spirit, many individuals, recently equipped with the power of the Holy Spirit, propagated the Pentecostal faith in the foreign lands, without depending on the support of any human agencies.
Garr, one of the participants of Azusa Street revival, travelled first to India and then to China, remained abroad learning language and culture of the people whom he wished to evangelize. Prominent among them are Bouncil, Aldivingle and Christian Schoonmaker. But the foreign missionary enterprises were more strengthened by the formation of the General Council of the Assembly of God in , Pentecostal Church of God in , and Pentecostal Assemblies of God in , and the Foursquare Gospel in During a fund rising journey in America, T.
Barratt, a Norwegian Methodist minister, a talented pupil of Grieg, and of Celtic British origin, was attracted by the Los Angeles revival. He wrote enthusiastic letters from America back to Norway, and after his return to Oslo held great Pentecostal meetings.
Many were filled with the Spirit, and many souls sought God. In the German pastor Modershon was baptized with power from above. The Berlin Declaration of keep the Evangelical Movement and the Pentecostal Movement apart to this day, and was of great importance not merely in Germany but also in Switzerland and in Slavonic countries. In Italy the Pentecostal Movement had more adherents than all the other Protestant groups together, and exercises a social influence which is respected by communists, liberals and sympathetic Catholic after suffering for many years severe persecution by the Fascists and the Catholic Church.
In France, most of its members came from Catholicism. In , a Pentecostal Missionary Union was formed in Europe. This interdenominational missionary movement worked mainly in Western China and Central India.
Pentecostalism spread from England to France in In , it spread swiftly among the Roma people. Today in France and Spain, nearly a quarter of the Roma population belongs to Pentecostal church. The political climate in Chile has favoured the growth of the Pentecostal movement. In Hati the Pentecostals demythologize the heathen Voodoo cult and have set up many schools.
They were persecuted in most South American countries, but most violently in Colombia, where one of their pastors was posted to the members of his congregation in pieces; In Brazil Pentecostalism is the most numerous protestant body in any country having a Latin language. Classical Pentecostalism have been operating in Africa since , when missionaries from Azusa Street arrived in Liberia and Angola. Pentecostal revivals and healing in the Ivory Coast and Ghana came under the ministry of a Liberian man named Willliam Harris from Three of the largest Pentecostal denominations in Ghana have origins in the work of a remarkable Ghanaian, Peter Anim and his Irish contemporary, James McKeowm In Nigeria, tremendous revivals took place under the ministry of Garrick Braide and Joseph Shadare from The result is the conversion of hundreds of thousands to Christianity and number of independent Pentecostal churches established.
The Christ Apostolic Church, one of the largest Pentecostal church in Nigeria originated from the revival of Yoruba land under the ministry of Joseph Babalola in Nigeria continues to be one of the largest Pentecostal countries in Africa, having some of the largest Pentecostal congregations in the world.. By contrast to the missionaries of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel he is not surprised at the ability of the Australians to experience the baptism of the Spirit, for they were acquainted with similar experiences from their Australian religion.
In China the Pentecostals set up co-operative settlements before the communists, and these were at first highly praised by the communist government, but later dissolved, since a religion other than state religion is not permitted.
But the Pentecostal movement is still spreading in China. The Shandong revival in was specially a Pentecostal outpouring among the eventual emergence of independent Pentecostal church. It was only from Pentecostal missionaries become active in China. McIntoshes and Garr from Azusa Street were among the first missionaries to arrive this land.
In , Philippinos who were converted and baptized in Holy Spirit in the United States returned to the Philippines and founded several Pentecostal revival churches. Today, the Pentecostal revival is sweeping across the islands of this country. During the Indonesian revival from , more than two million Javanese became Christian despite heavy persecution from Muslims extremists.
The Korean Pentecostal revival began in Some of the salient features of this revival were daily and all night prayer meeting, simultaneous prayer and Bible study, and an emphasis on evangelism and mission.
Elsewhere in Asia, there is particular interest in the large Pentecostal Movement in Indonesia, in the sizeable movement in India, autonomous and independent of missionary churches, and in situation in Japan.
In the world are there so man Pentecostal missionaries at work as in Japan, but they are practically without success. The first Pentecostal Conference for all Europe took place in in Stockholm. The very instructive minutes are a mine of information about the controversial questions within Pentecostalism, and about Pentecostal churches in socialist countries.
Can this experience be deduced from the Epistle written by them? The second attempt at the World Conference in Paris , where a full-blown plan was presented for a World Pentecostal Fellowship with statutes and declaration of faith, was so decisively wrecked by the Scandinavian Pentecostals that no further attempts have been made. The next conference was held in London in The fourth Pentecostal Conference was held in Stockholm in The Pentecostal World Conference in Dallas, Texas, in , has pushed the great indigenous Pentecostal denominations of the Third World into the background.
Another reason is the way so many existing churches have marginalized and rejected the Pentecostals when they attempted to share their testimonies of what God had done in their lives. As a result, sectarian thinking has dominated much of the movement, which in many cases developed an eschatological position that feared ecumenical contact. Many leaders hoped to establish an organization for Pentecostals similar to the WCC that was then in formation.
They were unable to do so because of the strongly congregational-centred Pentecostals of Scandinavia and Brazil. Since that time, Pentecostal leaders have gathered in Pentecostal world conferences where a small presidium has discussed items of mutual interest and concern. Cook, Bouncil and Aldivingle, who came and began to work in India prior to the arrival of any of the Pentecostal missionaries sent by an organization.
Since the people were prepared by the different revivals, many received Pentecostal teachings and a few congregations were already formed. However these people are not the originator of modern Pentecostal Movement in India, nor were the Western missionaries who first brought Pentecostalism in India.
Baptism in the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongue was already experience before the arrival of Pentecostal missionaries. G Garr and Thomas Barret in , the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was already experience in India in different places 3. But the revival occurred at Mukti Mission in identified as the first Pentecostal Movement in India. While attending the Keswik convention in , she was inspired by the report of Australian and Welsh revival in and About seventy girls out of the hundreds at Mukti Mission volunteered to join the prayer band.
On 29th June , a revival broke out at the mission. The message of Pentecost made its way to other parts of India. The same year revival broke out under the influence of the Alfred G. McGee confirmed that there were Pentecostals in India by He was a minister of a protestant church in Chicago, who received baptism in Holy Spirit and came to South India Kerala in He came to Travancore in as a preacher of the Brethren convention held at Trikkannamangal in Kottarakkara.
Due to certain disagreements with the missionaries who came in the Breathren Convention, Berg held meeting independently in different places in Kottarakara and Adoor, which were the first independent Pentecostal gathering in Kerala. Kedgaon: Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission, , Stanley M. California in and return to India along with Robert F. The first congregation in Kerala which accept Pentecostal teaching was Thuvayoor Church which had an indigenous origin.
Cook Robert F. Cook came along with his wife and two children to India in and settled at Dodaballapur near Bangalore. After learning that the work in Travancore is more successful he concentrated is work in Travancore. At his first visit to Travancore in he baptize sixty three persons at Thuvayoor. By his visit from Dodballapur, near Bangalore to Travancore between , churches were established at Adoor, Chaliyakkara, Vilakkudy and Punalur in central Travancore and he named his churches as Full Gospel Church in Malabar.
In Cook was accepted as an affiliated missionary of Assembly of God. Cook separate with K. Abraham in , but continued his work independently till he joined Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee in He served for 14 more years as missionary of Church of God and was back to US in He died at the age of 79 in January 12, Bouncil and Ms. Aldivingle Brethren missionaries Ms.
Aldivingle arrived India during the period of George Berg. They concentrate their ministry in Southern part of Travancore and churches were established at Praniyam, Pulugal, Malappuram, Vallarakkavila, Irenipura, Plantop and Kulachal. Mathai co-operated with them. They moved to Tanjore in and while they were in Tanjore Ms. Bouncil died. After the death of Bouncil, being guided by vision, Aldivingli concentrated her work in South Travancore.
Mary Chapman, who shifted her residence from Madras to Trivandrum in , work in co-operation with Aldivingle. Mary W. Chapman Mrs. She was the first official missionary of AG to India. She visisted Travancore occasionally and worked in 49 Kochupallikunnel, Pentecostal Churches In she changed her headquarter from Madras to Trivandrum to concentrate her work in Travancore.
It has been a circulation of about During this period many native joined the Pentecostal Church and the Pentecostal Church were in progress.
After long years of service Mrs. Chapman died on November 27, in Mavelikkara.
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