Sentences with phrase «pentecostal churches named»

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One of the key theologians of the United Pentecostal Church International was a Persian named Andrew David Urshan who had grown up in what is now the northeastern corner of Iran.

Furthermore, as Pentecostals looked to the Acts of the Apostles in an effort to follow the apostolic patterns of the early church, they noted that converts were baptized in water in «Jesus» name.»

Those concerts — which had earlier been frequented by a young Assembly of God teen named Elvis Presley — were emblematic of an important new phenomenon that occurred in the 1950s the leaking of Pentecostal musical forms and style, via Gospel music, not into the larger church but into the world of popular music.

The church was first organized by a hairdresser named Franzo King, the son of Pentecostal ministers whose spiritual journey was largely influenced by seeing John Coltrane perform in 1965.

For a compact but very able exposition of the classical Pentecostal churches in the Urited States, no better source can be named than Grant Wacker, «A Profile of American Pentecostalism,» to appear in a forthcoming volume to be edited by Timothy L. Smith et al., tentatively entitled The American Evangelical Mosaic.

One illustration of this difference is the fact that, in current Chilean evangelical parlance, «Pentecostalism» refers exclusively to the «indigenous» Pentecostal churches, while the Pentecostal churches of missionary origin (implanted after 1937) are always identified by their denominational name (Assemblies of God, Autonomous Assemblies of God, Church of God, etc.).