Chapter 4.1 Flashcards
- Why did the healing evangelists cause debates?
Accused of practicing medicine without a license. Questionable lifestyles. Their methods and rough handling of the sick.
- What was the effect of the healing evangelists overseas?
Both good and bad. Some people paid overseas pastors and workers who hurt the indigenous principle. Others helped: such as T. L. Osborn. Church growth came from the efforts of evangelists like Clifton Erickson, Lester F. Sumrall, and Tommy Hicks.
- How did Noel Perkin answer the debate about whether healing the sick was replacing the preaching of the Word?
Perkin said, “Our commission is to preach the gospel. It is the Lord’s work to confirm the Word with signs following.”
- How were the blessings of prosperity seen in new church buildings?
Churches could afford to move from makeshift accomodations in theaters and retail store spaces. Many could afford to build more proper auditoriums, classrooms, offices, and such.
- How did the Bible institutes respond to the changing times?
The schools changed their names to colleges, expanded their curriculums to include degree programs, and added majors in arts and sciences.
- Explain how Pentecostals took Christian values into the marketplace.
Examples given include a newspaper political cartoonist, a church officer on the city council, an educational writer, and other businessmen.
- Why was the 1959 General Council at San Antonio important?
It was a changing of the guard, a second generation of leaders. Zimmerman replaced Riggs and Hogan replaced Perkin. Both were strong Pentecostals and under fifty years of age.
- What type of evangelistic teams ministered during this time?
Husband and wife teams that sometimes produced popular child evangelists.
- What caused the New Order of the Latter Rain movement?
There were four points: (1) membership in the NAE; (2) policies, programs, and too much red tape “hindered the Spirit”; (3) the improvement and length of ministerial training and accreditation, and talk of starting a liberal arts school or seminary; and (4) the deaths of the three leading healing evangelists: Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles S. Price, and Smith Wigglesworth.
