Azusa Street and Beyond: Pentecostal Missions and Church Growth in the Twentieth Century

264 Pages·1986·8.441 MB·English

by  L. Grant McClung (editor)

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AZUSA STREET AND BEYOND

Azusa Street and Beyond
Pentecostal Missions and
Church Growth in the Twentieth Century
L. Grant McClung, Jr., Editor
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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.
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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
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