The Azusa Street Revival
Seymour also preached the Pentecostal message and attracted masses. It is widely agreed that the Pentecostal movement began with the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles in 1906 and spread across the US and then further afield. Worldwide, it is now among the fastest-growing movements within Christianity (Singleton 2001) Clearly, people were looking for something new and as the word revival kept surfacing it brought excitement and expectation. Like anything new, it eventually drew larger crowds and grew the Pentecostal movement. Pentecostalism embraced speaking in other tongues, a teaching which older churches often viewed as demonic. The rejection of the Pentecostalism enthusiasts was seen by others as discrimination and it won the movement sympathy endorsement and as such rejection was view as nothing but bigotry (Miller,et al 2013 26)