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They didn’t want a denomination, they wanted an experience. But once they had the experience, they found they had to organize to preserve it and pass it on. This is the story of the Assemblies of God, how it came into being, developed, grew—until today it is an acknowledged force in the evangelical world.

confess, ‘Here is something I do not possess,’ and then get it.” This was one way in which Americans rediscovered the doctrine of Spirit baptism. Compelled by their premillennialism to win their world, they prayed for power to fulfill that task. This emphasis became especially meaningful to those involved in Moody’s various ministries. By the 1890s they had begun to teach the necessity of a special “enduement with power for service.” In the light of an “any-moment” Second Coming, personal holiness
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