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worldwide 20th–21st-century Christian movement that emphasizes the experience of Spirit baptism, generally evidenced by speaking in tongues (glossolalia).
..... Click the link for more information. and divine healing, and the daily presence of the charismatic gifts basic to the early church) and of fundamentalismfundamentalism.
..... Click the link for more information. , emphasizing the premillenarian belief in a return of Jesus and his saints to reign over a period of peace and righteousness. The U.S. membership, numbering nearly 2.5 million, is organized into over 10,750 local autonomous churches with a general council and a general presbytery formulating and administering policies, respectively. The churches actively engage in missionary work.
See W. W. Menzies, Anointed to Serve (1971).
The Methodist Church has come to know many divisions over the years. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was originally a Methodist. Many of the socalled holiness denominations, chief among them being the Church of the Nazarene, were formed because it was thought Methodism had moved too far away from the message preached by its founder, Charles Wesley.
In 1906, at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California, a Methodistsponsored revival of "Pentecostal Power" broke out. People claimed to have been "baptized by the Holy Spirit" in the manner evidenced on the birthday of the Church during the celebration of Pentecost in the time of the Apostles (Acts 2). People speaking in tongues and miracles of healing roused people to a spiritual frenzy. The people who attended those meetings spread their enthusiasm throughout the United States, and the Pentecostal movement began.
In 1914 the director of a Pentecostal publication called for a great meeting of "believers in the baptism of the Holy Spirit." Out of that meeting, the Assemblies of God was born.
Assemblies of God is now a worldwide Protestant denomination following Methodist Church polity but emphasizing the need to be both "born again" and "baptized by the Holy Spirit as evidenced by the gift of speaking in tongues." This experience is called "the second blessing" and usually happens after a person has been "saved" by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as his or her personal savior. The second blessing is evidence of a "spiritual in-filling," and biblical evidence for the experience comes mostly from the book of Acts and from Paul's letters.
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As some Anabaptist groups grapple with military chaplaincy the experience of the Assemblies of God should serve as an important cautionary tale.
Ashcroft," notes Edith Blumhofer, a historian at Wheaton College who has written several books on the Assemblies, "was brought up in what was in some ways a conservative Assemblies of God home.
In the Assemblies of God, the local congregation would select its minister and run its own affairs.
Through its Teen Challenge drug-and-alcohol rehab program, the Assemblies of God has worked with troubled youth and adults since 1958.
Partly because they were less familiar to me, I especially enjoyed the clusters on the Assemblies of God and the Vineyard in both of which the issues of founding charisma and routinization loom large.
An ordained minister and a principal in an Assembly school in Memphis, Newman explores the impact of racial issues on the history of Pentecostalism, and particularly the Assemblies of God church, in the US.
Jonathan Perry, 30, was kicked out of Southeastern University, an Assemblies of God institution in Lakeland, Fla.
Nationally, she said, less accepting denominations include Southern Baptists, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Seventh-Day Adventists, Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ and large segments within Roman Catholicism.
In Missouri, the financial services arm of the Assemblies of God, an aggressively evangelistic denomination (that counts outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft as a member), received $1 million from the Department of Health and Human Services through a program called "Assets for Independence.
Davey attended Northwest College, a fully accredited evangelical institution affiliated with the Assemblies of God.
The team of researchers examined 125 congregations in each of five denominations - Assemblies of God, Southern Baptist Convention, Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Presbyterian Church (U.
that the Southern Pacific Latin American District of the Assemblies of God acted unlawfully when it tried to take over an historic Spanish-speaking church, caused a former pastor to sign a deed transferring all of the church's property to the denomination, and then locked out hundreds of member families.
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