American Assemblies of God leaders became aware that there might be apostles today when a movement called the Latter Rain, which I mentioned in the previous chapter, took shape within classical Pentecostalism in the 1940s. The Latter Rain embraced the ministry of apostles and prophets. Not surprisingly, they were condemned by their first cousins, so to speak, the Assemblies of God, because they threatened the status quo, particularly the doctrine of democracy. The Assemblies