The Overview section of our course relates that: “Demographers of Christian Churches such as D.B. Barrett tell us in publications such as World Christian Encyclopedia (2001) that the P/C movements number something like 600 million members today. This is a truly phenomenal growth. In one century, this movement has outstripped all the rest of Protestantism together, and the Reformation dates back four centuries!” TM online)
According to the Overview the “three waves of the Spirit movements” are: Classical Pentecostalism, Charismatic Renewal and Independent Charismatic. The first wave of Classical Pentecostalism began in the 1900’s. The Charismatic Renewal began at a much later date in the