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The first wave About one in four Christian believers worldwide are Pentecostal or charismatic, and the percentage is increasing daily. What do they believe? Article continues below. Free Newsletters Get the best from CT editors, delivered straight to your inbox!
Posted: September 16 , More From: Rich Tatum. Current Issue. Read This Issue. Devotion groups, such as Wesleyan Methodists and the Salvation Army, disassociated themselves with Pentecostals, leaving Pentecostals without acceptance into any kind of religious organization. They then sought to create their own! Over Pentecostals met from more than 20 states. In an effort for solidarity, the first three days were dedicated to teaching, devotions, and fraternal bonding.
Though later gatherings would provide doctrinal declarations and elect supervising leaders, there is no question that in April the Assemblies of God was created. Through international missionary efforts and building relationships with other Pentecostal churches, the Assemblies of God grew into a global movement.
It was not until , however, that the world fellowship was established. As a Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God adheres to the Pentecostal characteristic of baptism with the Holy Spirit with the tradition of speaking in tongues.
The doctrinal view of the Assemblies of God is expressed in a traditional Pentecostal and an evangelical connection. The Assemblies of God is Trinitarian and embraces the Bible as divinely caused and the true sovereign rule of faith and behavior. Baptism by immersion is exercised as a directive initiated by Christ for those who have been saved. Baptism is recognized as an outward symbol of an inward transformation, the change from being fallen in sin to being renewed in Christ.
As a statute, Communion is also utilized. The Assemblies of God accept that the components that are shared are symbols representing the giving of the divine nature of Jesus of Nazareth; a remembrance of His suffering and death; and a prediction of His second coming. The Assemblies of God also sets a strong importance on the achievement of the Great Commission and holds that this is the mission of the church.
As traditional Pentecostals, the Assemblies of God respects that all Christians are empowered to and should pursue the baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Assemblies of God teaches that this experience is discrete from and subsequent to the occurrence of salvation. The Father is not from the Son, but the Son is from the Father, as to authority.
The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son proceeding, as to nature, relationship, cooperation and authority. Hence, neither Person in the Godhead either exists or works separately or independently of the others. It therefore belongs exclusively to the Son of God. He is therefore, acknowledged to be both God and man; who because He is God and man is "Immanuel," God with us.
Therefore, the title Son of God, belongs to the order of eternity, and the title, Son of Man, to the order of time. Transgression of the Doctrine of Christ Wherefore, it is a transgression of the Doctrine of Christ to say that Jesus Christ derived the title, Son of God, solely from the fact of the incarnation, or because of His relation to the economy of redemption. Therefore, to deny that the Father is a real and eternal Father, and that the Son is a real and eternal Son, is a denial of the distinction and relationship in the Being of God; a denial of the Father, and the Son; and a displacement of the truth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
Exaltation of Jesus Christ as Lord The Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, having by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; angels and principalities and powers having been made subject unto Him. And having been made both Lord and Christ, He sent the Holy Spirit that we, in the name of Jesus, might bow our knees and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father until the end, when the Son shall become subject to the Father that God may be all in all.
Equal Honor to the Father and to the Son Wherefore, since the Father has delivered all judgment unto the Son, it is not only the express duty of all in heaven and on earth to bow the knee, but it is an unspeakable joy in the Holy Spirit to ascribe unto the Son all the attributes of Deity, and to give Him all honor and the glory contained in all the names and titles of the Godhead except those which express relationship see Distinction and Relationship in the Godhead, Unity of the One Being of Father, Son and Holy Spirit , and Identity and Cooperation in the Godhead and thus honor the Son even as we honor the Father.
Man was created good and upright; for God said, "Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness. Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life. The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures.
All who repent and believe on Christ as Saviour and Lord are to be baptized. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry. The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance. The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues, but is different in purpose and use.
Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by the faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit.
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