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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Pentecostal and Charismatic stream of the Christianity timeline.
Streams: All of Christianity Catholic Eastern Orthodox Oriental Orthodox Anglican Lutheran Reformed and Presbyterian Anabaptist Baptist Methodist and Wesleyan Restorationist Pentecostal and Charismatic Independent and Non-denominational
At Charles Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Agnes Ozman speaks in tongues; Parham's teaching that tongues are the Bible evidence of Spirit baptism becomes the doctrinal seed of Pentecostalism, five years before Azusa Street.
William Seymour's mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles pours out speaking in tongues and interracial worship; global Pentecostalism traces its modern beginning here.
Pentecostal ministers gather at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and organize the General Council of the Assemblies of God; the fellowship becomes the largest Pentecostal body in the world.
The Pentecostal Church, Incorporated and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ merge to form the United Pentecostal Church, the largest body of the Oneness Pentecostal movement that began in the 1916 controversy over the Godhead and baptism in Jesus' name.
Dennis Bennett, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Van Nuys, tells his congregation of his own experience of speaking in tongues; the charismatic renewal inside the historic churches, Catholic renewal included after 1967, dates its public beginning here.
The International Congress on World Evangelization at Lausanne, convened by Billy Graham and John Stott, consolidates global evangelicalism and issues the Lausanne Covenant.
Some fifty thousand charismatics from Catholic, Protestant, and Pentecostal churches worship together at Kansas City; the conference is the high-water mark of the charismatic renewal's ecumenical moment.
A renewal meeting at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church draws visitors from around the world with its manifestations of laughter, weeping, and rest; the blessing spreads through charismatic networks and divides them over its phenomena.
