touch with an alternative reality by which the world is judged and redeemed. Out of this alternative vision, the church is impelled into witness and service in the society in which it is set. In society, the church accomplishes some modest things, but it also learns its own helplessness—a recognition which drives it back to the healing and renewing actions of worship. Daniel B. Stevick 109 ◆ ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHURCHES Having originated in the Pentecostal movement of the early twentieth century, the Assemblies