Azusa Street and Beyond: Pentecostal Missions and Church Growth in the Twentieth Century PDF
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'•*Pd uJ£<2. ^ £ CJftiiQL I AZUSA STREET AND BEYOND Azusa Street and Beyond Pentecostal Missions and Church Growth in the Twentieth Century L. Grant McClung, Jr., Editor Bridge Publishing Inc. Publishers of: LOGOS • HAVEN • OPEN SCROLL ® 1986 by Bridge Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-88270-607-1 Library of Congress catalog number 86-70742 Bridge Publishing, Inc. 2500 Hamilton Blvd. South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Affectionately dedicated to Janice—professional secretary, anointed musician, committed wife and mother—for her partnership in matrimony and ministry v About the Author Lloyd Grant McClung, Jr. graduated from West Coast Christian College in 1972. He received a master’s degree from California Graduate School of Theology in Glendale, California, and was an instructor at the European Bible Seminary in West Germany. The Seminary is operated by the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), the denomination in which he is an ordained minister. Subsequently he completed the Master of Divinity at the Church of God School of Theology in Cleveland, Tennessee, and was accepted into the Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate and holds the Doctor of Missiology from Fuller, where he formerly served as teaching assistant to C. Peter Wagner. In 1984 he was awarded the Paul Yonggi Cho Church Growth Award for his work on pentecostal missions and church growth. At present, he is Assistant Professor of Missions and Church Growth at the Church of God School of Theology in Cleveland, Tennessee. He is married to the former Janice Leach of Tampa, Florida. They have two sons, Matthew and Joel. vu Table of Contents Part One: Historical Perspectives Introduction—Explosion, Motivation, and Consolidation:......................3 The Historical Anatomy of a Missionary Movement by L. Grant McClung, Jr. 1. Pentecost Has Come....................................................................................22 The Apostolic Faith Magazine 2. When the Pentecostal Fire Fell in Calcutta..............................................26 Maynard Ketcham and Wayne Warner 3. Early Pentecostal Missionaries:...................................................................32 They Went Everywhere Preaching the Gospel Gary B. McGee 4. Golden Jubilees of Twentieth-Century Pentecostal Movements............38 David J. du Plessis Part Two: Theological Motivations Introduction— Truth on Fire: Pentecostals and An Urgent Missiology..........................47 by L. Grant McClung, Jr. 5. The Reason for the Rise of the Pentecostal Movement..........................56 Thomas F. Zimmerman 6. Spiritual Gifts and World Evangelization.................................................62 Donald Gee IX
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