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Article: Revisiting Azusa Street: a centennial retrospect.
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
- Author:
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In April 2006 North American Pentecostals mark the centenary of an event that stands at the core of their myth of origins. It happened in Los Angeles and takes its name from its location--Azusa Street, an unremarkable thoroughfare that became a byword to thousands of devout women and men who mingled with the merely curious between 1906 and 1908 at a modest building known as the Azusa Street Mission. There from mid-April 1906 through at least 1908, revival meetings ran almost continuously. Along with traditional revival rhetoric about sin and salvation, visitors heard exhortations to pursue heart purity and spiritual power. But more compelling than the rhetoric or the ...
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Article: Azusa Street centennial.(News)(Brief ...
The Christian Century;
May 16, 2006 ;
427 words
... ... in downtown Los Angeles in a tent on the site of the 1906 Azusa Street revival and the early spread of Pentecostal Christianity ... join in the prayer. About 3,000 people marched in a "Holy Spirit Procession" prior to a five-day observance of the mission ...
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