SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PENTECOSTAL MISSION MODEL IN SOUTH AFRICA

Abstract

Although speaking in tongues; perhaps the most important characteristic of the modern Pentecostal movement, was first experienced by Parham and his students of the Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A., it is rather a black church in Azusa Street, Los Angeles, and its pastor, J. Seymour, which should be regarded as the initiators of this powerful Christian movement (cf. Anderson 1992b:18,22) which would later be called The third force in missions (alongside Roman Catholicism and historic Protestantism Pomerville 1985). And this Black Pentecostalism can be linked directly to the African religious culture of the American slaves. Indeed, Lovett (in Anderson 1992b:27) can state categorically

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