A Spirit-filled church is one that is focused on the work of the Holy Spirit in its members and in the world. It is a church that seeks to be led by the Spirit and empowered by the Spirit to fulfill God’s mission in the world. The Spirit-filled church is committed to the centrality of the Holy Spirit in its life and ministry.
Pentecostalism is an evangelical movement of Christian religious denominations that emerged in the early 20th century in the United States and subsequently spread to many other parts of the world.
Allen was a 20th-century Pentecostal evangelist and faith healer active in the United States from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He founded the assembly known as the Allens of God, known colloquially in the first person as "A. A. Allen's ministry", and promoted the "manifest sons of God" doctrine. He was renowned for his dramatic healing services and for his television appearances, most notably with Oral Roberts in 1961, as well as for publishing a magazine, Miracle Magazine.
Pentecostalism is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the direct experience of the Holy Spirit, often manifested through speaking in tongues and other forms of Spirit baptism.
Edward Irving (1792–1834) was an influential and ground-breaking British prelate and theologian and one of the great leaders of the 19th century's Ecclesiological Movement. Irving was born in Annan, Scotland, the son of a house painter and a devoutly religious mother.
