Some apostolic churches can be traced back to the British renaissances of the 1830’s. Apostolic Church in America was first established by German immigrants in Chicago in 1872. Currently there are about 11 million members of the Apostolic United Pentecostal religion. They seek to maintain the traditions and practices of the first church. Similar to majority of evangelical churches they believe and teach the necessity for conviction of sin, and in order to be forgiven you must repent, and there has to be a cognizance of your sins in order to obtain salvation. According to Thomas Napier, a well-known author in the 1950’s.
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Apology of sin it also vital, and means moving in the opposite direction of the wrongdoing and focusing on God. The Apostolic United Pentecostal correspondingly accepts that talking in tongues is an image of the Holy Spirit submersion. According to the BBC, “Speaking in tongues means speaking miraculously in a language unknown to the speaker, "As the Spirit gives utterance". It first happened to the disciples on the day of Pentecost. Speaking in tongues can be either evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, or a demonstration of the gift of tongues. Theological texts also use the word glossolalia to refer to speaking in tongues. This word is sometimes restricted to ecstatic speech in non-existent languages.” Along with the belief of speaking in tongues, they as well believe in the gifts of the spirit, which is abilities given to believers, and they can reveal the power of God by healing the sick. St. Paul who was an apostle and he traveled the world preaching the crucifixion of Christ. He wrote fourteen epistles, and he left the apostolic people a list of gifts of the spirit which are love, prophecy, healing, wise speech, faith, miraculous powers and ecstatic speech. In the United States the first well-known of tongues was in Topeka, Kansas, it was led by Charles Parham and rapidly began to spread across the country, although Parham’s practices did not last long within the church. Several of new churches carried out the concept of seeking the baptism of the Spirit by speaking in tongues, currently over 200,000,000 Pentecostals practice speaking in tongues as an important part of their
“The Apostolic Church stands for first-century Christianity in faith, practice, and government, “to make known world-wide …show more content…
Apology of sin it also vital, and means moving in the opposite direction of the wrongdoing and focusing on God. The Apostolic United Pentecostal correspondingly accepts that talking in tongues is an image of the Holy Spirit submersion. According to the BBC, “Speaking in tongues means speaking miraculously in a language unknown to the speaker, "As the Spirit gives utterance". It first happened to the disciples on the day of Pentecost. Speaking in tongues can be either evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, or a demonstration of the gift of tongues. Theological texts also use the word glossolalia to refer to speaking in tongues. This word is sometimes restricted to ecstatic speech in non-existent languages.” Along with the belief of speaking in tongues, they as well believe in the gifts of the spirit, which is abilities given to believers, and they can reveal the power of God by healing the sick. St. Paul who was an apostle and he traveled the world preaching the crucifixion of Christ. He wrote fourteen epistles, and he left the apostolic people a list of gifts of the spirit which are love, prophecy, healing, wise speech, faith, miraculous powers and ecstatic speech. In the United States the first well-known of tongues was in Topeka, Kansas, it was led by Charles Parham and rapidly began to spread across the country, although Parham’s practices did not last long within the church. Several of new churches carried out the concept of seeking the baptism of the Spirit by speaking in tongues, currently over 200,000,000 Pentecostals practice speaking in tongues as an important part of their