Kevin, you are evil.
Funny
But evil.

Blessings,
Randy

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jeff Hallmark <bctexan@...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Show the history of Pentecostal/Charismatic churches between 33AD to
>> 1885,   Show us the history of P/C during the reformation??
>>
>>
> Well ... there was the Montanists circa 165 AD, of course they were
> condemned as heretics.
>
> There was also some Gnostic sects who were tongue-speakers from 150-600 AD
> ... also heretics.
>
> Then there was nothing until the mid-17th century when a group of militant
> Protestants in the Cevennes region of southern France began to prophesy,
> experience visions, and speak in tongues. The group, sometimes called the
> Cevennol prophets, are remembered for their political and military
> activities, not their spiritual legacy. Since their prophecies went
> unfulfilled, they were condemned as heretics and killed by Rome.
>
> The next groups to claim extra-biblical revelation were the cults which
> developed in the 18th-19th centuries (Jehovah Witness, Mormons, 7th Day
> Adventists, Christian Scientists).
>
> Then, on 1/1/1901 (it is interesting that Pentecostalism seems to
> experience
> a "burst" of activity right around the turn of the centuries ...
> eschatological-inspired fears, perhaps?), Agnes Ozman a student of Charles
> Fox Parham in Topeka KS became the first person to speak in tongues in the
> modern age.  That marks the beginning of the modern Pentecostal movement.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Grace and peace,
> Kevin Sigafoos
> ---------------------
> For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory
> forever. Amen. (Rom 11:36)
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