These independent movement churches were given a name in July 1924 'Thennindia Pentecosthu Daivasabha' (The South India Pentecostal Church of God). Several prayer groups and fellowships sprang up in Travencore.įollowing that, more churches were established and subsequently on 13 April 1924 a monthly gathering was started with all these churches, which is still continuing among all the IPC churches in different places. Because he accepted the Pentecostal faith, the Puritans did not accept him.ĭuring the time of rejection and separation from his erst while group, he wrote a book, Baptism of the Holy Spirit advocating a second baptism, baptism by the Holy Spirit strongly in line with Wesleyan Christian Perfection which made a way for him to be known it opened many ways to preach and to propagate the Pentecostal message. On 22 June 1923, it was alleged that Abraham also received the gift of speaking in tongues and became a Pentecostal believer at the house of C. The missionaries from the west also came at the same time to South India for the propagation of the Pentecostal doctrine. As a Christian minister, he had built a small place of worship adjacent to his house in Mulakuzha in 1920 for a Puritan Assembly. During his younger years, Abraham ministered among the youth, and as a result, many people accepted Christianity. He left Jacobite church at young age and was rebaptized on February 27, 1916, by Brethren minister and theologian Mahakavi K.V. Abraham was born on March I, 1899 to Jacobite parents in Mulakuzha, India. The origins of the Indian Pentecostal Church can be traced back to K E Abraham, who belonged to the Kerala Brethren denomination during the period of the native revival movement in Travancore. Simon, Volbrecht Nagel, Anthony Norris Groves etc. ![]() During those times, many evangelical low churches were from the Kerala Brethren and followed reformed puritan practises (Verubadh Sabha) and these churches was pioneered by K.V. George Burg, an American-German missionary first introduced the Pentecostal experience in early 1900s. Protestant evangelical low church movement flourished in Kerala after the translation of the Bible by Hermann Gundert and Benjamin Bailey who also established the first printing press in Kerala in mid 1800s. IPC tends to shy away from ecumenism, and some of its leaders reject high church liturgy as a method of worship, instead opting for low church congregational worship. IPC has similarities with the Kerala Brethren denomination in terms of its beliefs on orthodoxy and eschatology, as a large portion of IPC's founders and early members were from the Kerala Brethren. Its organisational headquarters located in Kumbanad, Kerala, India. The Indian Pentecostal Church of God ( IPC) is one of the largest Pentecostal Christian Denomination in India, with over 10,000 congregations worldwide. Registered on 9 December 1935 as "The Indian Pentecostal Church of God" at Eluru ![]() Started on July 1924 100 years ago ( 1924), as 'Thennindia Pentecosthu Daivasabha'
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