Title: Anointed to serve
Author: William W. Menzies
Publisher: Gospel Publishing House
Copyright: 1971
General Theme of Manual: The History and Events that shaped and made the Assemblies of God the way it is today.
Summary of Pages read: This book was a very useful and insightful book. Let me break it down chapter by chapter.
Ch. 1 was the back ground chapter predating 1900. This chapter showed the years of social revolution. The people where satisfied and had no desire to seek God in prayer. There was extreme self-satisfaction and churches were "dead". There were also many false teachings that shook the nation. The worst was Kantian idealism from Germany and the publication of Darwin's The Origin of the Species in 1859. Not all was bad in America though. Out of this theological toss up came great strides for Christianity such as The Princeton theory and Fundamentalism. Also the Holiness movement was gaining strength. The holiness movement maybe one of the greatest......
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Approximate Word Count: 1586
Approximate Pages: 7 (260 words per double-spaced page) |