Pentecostalism · Intermediate
Topeka and the Birth of Pentecostalism
Modern Pentecostalism began in January 1901 at Charles Parham's Bible school in Topeka, Kansas, where students sought tongues as the sign of Spirit baptism and believed they had received foreign languages for missions, a claim the mission field soon disproved.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
Who Charles Fox Parham was and how Bethel Bible School began
2
What happened when Agnes Ozman spoke in tongues on January 1, 1901
3
Why early Pentecostals believed tongues were foreign languages, and what happened on the mission field
4
Why Parham's later life and teaching remind us to test both doctrine and fruit
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