Monday 25 April 2016

Movements

1904-1906 - Welsh Revival/Azusa Street

1920s - Pentecostal denominations organised 

1940s - Latter Rain emerged from among Pentecostals mainly in Canada, as a response to perceived dryness within Pentecostalism

(Features: all believers moving in the gifts; laying on of hands; fivefold ministry; ordination through personal prophecy; deliverance; believers' authority; word of faith; the voice of healing revival - some amillennialism; even a tangent called "the manifest sons of God".)

1960s-early 1980s - Charismatic Movement - affected all denominations, not only Pentecostals; gravitated more towards Latter Rain leaders than towards traditional Pentecostal leaders; blurring of boundaries between Charismatic and Latter Rain movements; sharing teachers

Meanwhile Pentecostal denominations didn't fully embrace either movement - and denounced some features.

Eventually the "Contemporary Church" style emerged within Pentecostal denominations. It was a new generations' answer to the dryness within Pentecistalism, without fully embracing the Latter Rain/Charismatic move. The new style came to affect Latter Rain/Charismatic churches too. Boundaries blurred.

Mid-1990s - the River Movement - brought a much-needed fresh move of the Spirit to Contemporary-ised churches.

Today, traces of at least some features of Pentecostal, Latter Rain, Charismatic, Contemporary-Church and River movements can be found in most denominations to varying extent.

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