Unit 1 - AG Governance

Question 1

What major spiritual event began less than twenty years after the end of the American Revolution?

Answer 1

The Second Great Awakening

Question 2

According to the author, which of the following post-Civil War crisis points is still relevant in today’s society?

Answer 2

Decline of public morality

Question 3

Restorationism is the

Answer 3

restoration of Christianity as demonstrated by the apostles.

Question 4

What was a major influence of the Holiness Movement on the AG?

Answer 4

The emphasis on the tradition of valuing spiritual experience

Question 5

Parham described the additional tenet of belief he added to the Pentecostal Movement as:

Answer 5

“the baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire.”

Question 6

Parham concluded that speaking in tongues was the initial physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit because he

Answer 6

studied the Bible directly in order to establish his theology.

Question 7

Before he went on a three-day ministry trip, Parham directed his students to

Answer 7

study the book of Acts regarding the “biblical evidence “ of the “Apostolic baptism. “

Question 8

What was the significance of Parham’s book, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, to the Pentecostal Movement?

Answer 8

It was the first defense of the young movement.

Question 9

Name the first African American who was baptized in the Holy Spirit in one of Parham’s meetings.

Answer 9

Lucy Farrow

Question 10

Which of the following difficulties did Seymour encounter early in his life?

Answer 10

Racial hostility

Question 11

What was Parham’s reaction to the Azusa revival services that greatly affected his relationship with Seymour?

Answer 11

He voiced his disapproval for the unintelligible “babble.”

Question 12

What was G.B. Cashwell’s reaction to the racial bigotry in his previous ministry?

Answer 12

He repented and died to it.

Question 13

Pentecostal meetings

Answer 13

included personal involvement through testimonies, prayer, and gifts of the Spirit.

Question 14

Name an area in which the Pentecostal Movement was egalitarian in nature, and a person of historical significance in that area.

Answer 14

Age equality–J. Roswell Flower, twenty-six years old as the first secretary of the new AG

Question 15

In what way were the Pentecostals different than society at large?

Answer 15

Pentecostals had a diverse, multi racial, and multiethnic flavor.

Question 16

Describe the role one Hispanic played in the Pentecostal Movement in the early 1900s.

Answer 16

Antonio Rios Morin got saved, healed of war wounds, and filled with the Holy Spirit in one service. He became an evangelists to the Mexican people.

Question 17

In what ways was God’s presence evident to those who attended early Pentecostal gatherings?

Answer 17

Some attendees fell on their faces under conviction; others sat in reverent silence or raised their voices in praise.

Question 18

Key characteristics of Pentecostal people that contributed to the success of the movement included fervently, faith, openness to the new, and

Answer 18

an awareness of holiness.

Question 19

List the four core tenets of the AG.

Answer 19

Salvation, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Divine Healing, and Second Coming

Question 20

Detect one weakness of the early Pentecostal Movement

Answer 20

The Pentecostal Movement grew outside of the scope of a central leader.

Question 21

How did John Alexander Dowie illustrate the danger of unaccountability?

Answer 21

He built a utopian Christian city where people were required to live by his interpretation of biblical standards.

Question 22

Identify the challenges missionaries faced in the early years.

Answer 22

It was difficult for the missionaries to go to the field because they had no network of support.

Question 23

A major concern of the committee assigned to bring recommendations for incorporation was to avoid

Answer 23

a rigid and authoritarian organization.

Question 24

Describe the two things the AG founders deliberately avoided when organizing.

Answer 24

Organizing a denomination and normalizing a doctrinal statement

Question 25

In Hot Springs, the decision was made to

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authorize the formation of district councils in harmony with the purposes of the General Council.

Question 26

Name the five major shifts that transformed America in the 1800s.

Answer 26

Population, religious method, denominational, theological, and social

Question 27

The forms of modernism that increasingly influenced society and the church during the mid-1800s were

Answer 27

modern philosophies, modern theology, and modern science.

Question 28

Friedrich Schleiermacher developed a theological premise, influenced by the “philosophy of relativism,” that truth was

Answer 28

experiential, not biblical.

Question 29

What specific idea replaced the fundamental Christian value of “ a personal relationship with God” after the Second Great Awakening cooled down?

Answer 29

Cultural Christianity

Question 30

The Holiness Movement provided an antidote for secularism by

Answer 30

maintaining the concept of Christian perfection.

Question 31

The Keswick Movement’s view on the second blessing taught that it is

Answer 31

the endowment of power.

Question 32

What emphasis was taught at the Missionary Training Institute and later reflected in the AG teachings?

Answer 32

Faith healing

Question 33

Which AG notable member attended A.B. Simpson’s school?

Answer 33

Frank M. Boyd

Question 34

Charles F. Parham was finally convinced of God’s calling in his life when

Answer 34

he was struck with rheumatic fever a second time and God healed him.

Question 35

On the first day of the new century, what chapter did God open in His work, seen in the present-day Pentecostal experience?

Answer 35

Receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit

Question 36

An interesting fact about Parham is that he

Answer 36

preached the first sermon in modern history focused solely on the baptism in the Holy Spirit as evidenced by speaking in other tongues.

Question 37

After the initial outpouring in his ministry, Parham was surprised that

Answer 37

there was criticism and ridicule.

Question 38

Originally, Parham named the Pentecostal Movement

Answer 38

“The Apostolic Faith Movement. “

Question 39

In ministry, Parham experienced

Answer 39

family loss.

Question 40

What caught the attention and led to the growth of Parham’s ministry from twenty-five to twenty-five thousand people during his meetings held in Texas?

Answer 40

High profile healing, including the healing of a paralyzed woman

Question 41

During Seymour’s early years in ministry training, Jim Crow laws had an impact on

Answer 41

racial segregation.

Question 42

While attending the Azusa Street Revival, Holiness evangelist G.B. Cashwell felt convicted of what bigotry?

Answer 42

Racial

Question 43

The harshest responses to the “initial physical evidence “ originated from

Answer 43

some of the Holiness and fundamentalist groups.

Question 44

After rejecting the teaching of speaking in tongues, what group changed their name?

Answer 44

The Church of the Nazarene

Question 45

Early Pentecostals delivered the message to the people through

Answer 45

mass meetings and conventions.

Question 46

The Pentecostal Movement met people’s needs

Answer 46

through healing and divine miracles.

Question 47

In addition to the Holy Spirit, what was the key ingredient mentioned in the textbook for the success and growth of the early Pentecostal Movement?

Answer 47

The Pentecostal people

Question 48

The baptism in the Holy Spirit complements sanctification by helping the believer

Answer 48

with Holy living and empowerment for service following the initial physical evidence of speaking in tongues

Question 49

The perils that inspired the need to organize were

Answer 49

divisions, charlatans, ineffectiveness of missions endeavors, lack of legal standing, and heterodoxy.

Question 50

The key architects sounding “the call to organize “ were

Answer 50

Howard A. Gossip, Eudorus N. Bell, and D.C.O. Opperman.

Question 51

Which of the following types of people were invited to participate in the Hot Springs gathering?

Answer 51

Workers, payment, and preachers

Question 52

The five purposes stated by E.N.Bell for organizing were unity, conservation, missions oversight, legal standing, and

Answer 52

training.

Question 53

Care was needed in proposing the call to organize because

Answer 53

of the teaching against organization due to irresponsible leaders, and serious charge of being labeled a “compromiser!”

Question 54

No business was conducted for the first few days of the Hot Springs meeting due to

Answer 54

strong feelings both for and against the issue of organization.

Question 55

Two of the main members of a “secret committee “ opposed to a strong central organization were

Answer 55

T.K. Leonard and J. Roswell Flower

Question 56

T.K. Leonard headed a group authoring a resolution that brought about what reaction and decision when it was read?

Answer 56

It was “enthusiastically and unanimously passed.”

Question 57

When organizing, the AG founders deliberately avoided these two things:

Answer 57

creating a denomination and normalizing a doctrinal statement.