“The Lord’s Pentecostal Missionary Movement”

Abstract

"“In the year 1901 the latter rain began to fall in different parts of the world,” trumpeted the Missionary Manual of the Assemblies of God published three decades later. More importantly, the evangelistic zeal of “waiting, hungry-hearted people,” who had been baptized in the Holy Spirit, signaled the resumption of “the Lord’s Pentecostal missionary movement.” It had been halted at the end of the first century when the Holy Spirit was “largely rejected and His position as leader usurped by men.” Consequently, Spirit-led missions ceased and the Dark Ages commenced.2 Now, in the remaining days before the imminent return of Christ, Pentecostals would jubilantly carry the apostolic banner down the parade route of modern mission."