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unusual facts about Holiness movement


Holiness movement

Robert and Hannah Smith were among those who took the holiness message to England, and their ministries helped lay the foundation for the now-famous Keswick Convention.


Bible Missionary Church

Bible Missionary Church, founded in 1955, is an evangelical, holiness Christian denomination headquartered in the United States.

Chinese Independent Churches

Pentecostalism stresses the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" and the use of supernatural spiritual gifts such as prophecy, healing, and speaking in unknown tongues, and is fired by a strong millennialism (expecting the return of Christ at any moment; this feature was also characteristic of many others of the newer mission groups (especially Holiness and Adventist ones).

From the mid-1920s onward Watchman Nee, strongly influenced by Plymouth Brethren ideas (especially premillennialism) but also by a stress on the Holy Spirit derived from the Holiness tradition, was an inspiring and compelling teacher.

Peniel Mission

The Peniel Mission was an interdenominational holiness rescue mission that was started in Los Angeles, California on 11 November 1886 by Theodore Pollock Ferguson (1853–1920) and Manie Payne Ferguson (born 1850; died 8 June 1932).


see also

Pearsall

Robert Pearsall Smith, lay leader in the Holiness Movement in Great Britain