anyway.....carrying on with history - attempting to find or develop an acceptable Timeline - with anyone from the movement willing to contribute to correcting what they might consider errors...so the basic historical framework is understood.
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Four Groups Addressing Spiritual Gifts Today
Today’s discussions and positions on spiritual gifts fall into one of four
general positions. A brief survey of positions underlines the breadth of thought and
conviction about the gifts and the need for biblical clarity.
Classic Pentecostalism – The historic beginning of the modern tongues
movement is traced to Bethel Bible School of Topeka, Kansas, founded in 1900
by Charles Parham (1873-1929). Parham encouraged his students to examine
the apostolic age for a witness of the baptism of the Holy Spirit available today
as an event subsequent to salvation. One of his students, Miss Agnes Ozman,
requested that hands be laid on her to receive the Holy Spirit, and according to
Parham, she responded by speaking only in the Chinese language, unable to
speak her native English for the next three days. Parham considered this the
restoration of the Pentecostal power of the Book of Acts.12 Nichol points out that
the significance of the Topeka event was that “for the first time the concept of
being baptized (or filled) with the Holy Spirit was linked to an outward
sign—speaking in tongues.”13 Parham began an evangelistic effort in various
cities which he identified as “Pentecostal” or the “Full Gospel,” reaching as high
as 25,000 Pentecostal converts in Texas alone by 1905.14 William Seymour
(1870-1922) came in contact with Parham’s preaching in Houston and then was
called to Los Angeles, where he lead the renowned Azusa Street Revival (1906-
1909). Based at the Azusa Street Mission (312 Azusa Street), Seymour spoke in
tongues for the first time on April 9, 1906. Seymour’s activities associated with
the Azusa Street Revival launched American Pentecostalism, and Azusa Street
became a “veritable Pentecostal Mecca to which pilgrims from all over the world
came and from which the news of supernatural signs and wonders was broadcast.
”15 Representatives of this position include The Assemblies of God, The
Church of God in Christ, and Aimee Semple McPherson’s (1890-1944)
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.16
http://www.tms.edu/tmsj/tmsj14f.pdf
END summary Classic Pentecostalism history.
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