A stronger stand on their beliefs and a firmer grasp on their future were taken Friday by delegates to the 29th general council of the Assemblies of God, in session at the Memorial Coliseum.

At the adoption, the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, `` The Assemblies of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives ''.

Friday afternoon the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman was reelected for his second consecutive two-year term as general superintendent of Assemblies of God.

To step up the denomination's program, the Rev. Mr. Brandt suggested the vision of 8,000 new Assemblies of God churches in the next 10 years.

-- Encouraging by every means, all existing Assemblies of God churches to start new churches.

* Assemblies of God in Australia, a Pentecostal denomination

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Many Pentecostal churches such as the Assemblies of God, as well as Restorationist churches, like Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, also take the position that homosexual sexual activity is immoral.

Different aspects of speaking in tongues appear in Acts and 1 Corinthians, such that the Assemblies of God declare that the gift in Acts " is the same in essence as the gift of tongues " in 1 Corinthians " but different in purpose and use ".

James Orsen " Jim " Bakker ( pronounced " Baker "; born January 2, 1940 ) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, convicted felon, and a former host ( with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker ) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.

Bakker attended North Central University, a Bible college affiliated with the Assemblies of God, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where in 1960 he met fellow student Tammy Faye LaValley.

His father was a minister in an Assemblies of God congregation, served as president of Evangel University ( 1958 – 74 ), and jointly as President of Central Bible College ( 1958 – 63 ).

Ashcroft, a member of the Assemblies of God church, authored the book Lessons From a Father to His Son.

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Almost the entire population of the islands practises some religion, with three-quarters of the country either following the United Church of Christ – Congregational in the Marshall Islands ( UCCCMI ) or the Assemblies of God.

Major religious groups in the Republic of the Marshall Islands include the United Church of Christ ( formerly Congregational ), with 51. 5 percent of the population ; the Assemblies of God, 24. 2 percent ; and the Roman Catholic Church, 8. 4 percent.

The range of those participating included many different denominations such as Anglicans, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Christian Reformed, Lutheran and Presbyterian.

* David Yonggi Cho – Senior pastor and founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church ( Assemblies of God ) in Seoul, Korea, the world's largest congregation

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North American regional planning is likely to cover a much larger area than the Regional Assemblies of the UK ; both, however, are equally " regional " in nature.

The Assemblies of God was founded in 1914 ; however, it was not until 1916 that it reluctantly created the Fundamental Truths in response to several doctrinal controversies.

This idea of progressive sanctification was believed by many within the Assemblies of God ; however, there were adherents who still held to the theology of the holiness movement.

Since the Islamic Revolution, however, the institutionalization of Islamic Sharia law has come down especially hard on the Assemblies of God because of their unique success in converting Muslims to Christianity.

In 1918, however, a decision was made to form the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.

Signs of national renaissance also appeared in Idel-Ural and Turkestan ; there, however, it was limited to the calling of " National Assemblies.

In 1961 the International Bahá ' í Council was changed to an elected body, with members of all National Spiritual Assemblies voting for its members.

The most recent full election was in April 2008 when 166 National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies were in existence.

Cover of the original 1876 EditionThe first edition of the book, whose full title was Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies, was published in February 1876 by then U. S. Army Colonel Henry Martyn Robert ( 1837 – 1923 ) with the short title Robert's Rules of Order placed on its cover.

" Systematic targeting of the leadership of the Bahá ' í community by killing or disappearing was focused on the Bahá ' í National Spiritual Assembly ( NSA ) and Local Spiritual Assemblies ( LSAs ).

When Thompson was 12, his mother and stepfather joined a church that was tied to the evangelical Assemblies of God, a move that influenced many of his songs written with the Pixies, which often refer to the Bible.

In 1918, after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was in the forefront of the Provisional and the Constitutional National Assemblies of those Cisleithanian " Lands Represented in the Reichsrat " ( the formal description of the Austrian half of the Dual Monarchy ) that predominantly spoke German and had decided to form a nation-state like the other nationalities had done.

In early 1638 the National Covenant was signed by large numbers of Scots, protesting at the introduction of the Prayer Book and other liturgical innovations that had not first been tested and approved by free Parliaments and General Assemblies of the Church.

The right to legislate was put into moratorium until more than half of counties in the nation has exercised this right by their County Representatives ' Assemblies.

Popular suffrage was retained, though mutilated by the lists of notables ( on which the members of the Assemblies were to be chosen by the Conservative Senate ).

It was during these formative years that Mason credentialed both white and African American ministers who would subsequently become leaders within other Pentecostal denominations such as the Assemblies of God USA, the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, and the United Pentecostal Church International.

When the Assemblies of God was founded in 1914, invitations were sent only to white Pentecostal ministers including 350 white ministers licensed through COGIC.

There he was elected to the 4th and 5th North-West Legislative Assemblies ; he later served as a minister in the government of Premier Frederick W. A. G. Haultain.

It is a part of the Oneness or " Apostolic " portion of the Pentecostal Movement, and was formed in 1945 by a merger of the former Pentecostal Church, Incorporated and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ.

One of these new groups was the Assemblies of God, which formed in 1914.

The General Board of the Church of the Nazarene which has governing responsibility for the International Church of the Nazarene in between General Assemblies, was created by action of the 1923 General Assembly to replace a system of independent general boards that often competed with one another for the church dollar.

The conference was established in 2000 and its charter members included Haskell Indian Nations University, Langston University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, and Peru State College.

When she was accompanied by a friend to the Assemblies of God church, at age 10, she said she " felt the glow of God's love and wanted to call herself upon the Lord.

It is reported that Elvis Presley was baptized in the Assemblies of God at age nine, but was later re-baptized ( at age around 14 ) according to the Jesus ' Name formula by Bishop Joseph Rex Dyson, according to Dyson himself.

Garfield Thomas Haywood was Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World from 1925-1931.