Charismatics want to make more Charismatics. Promise-keeping pastors are sold on the movement. They want their fellow-pastors to experience what they have experienced. Of course, many voices are raised on the other side of the fence, warning of the dangers, distortions and bad theology. E very movement and emphasis in the church today is rooted in a movement and theology that emerged in the past.
Nothing comes from nothing.
Only as we understand the movements of the past can we properly discern their offspring. I will briefly share with you some of the tenets of four movements that have emerged in American Christianity. I will also include some additional sources for further research. Evangelical Revivalism One cannot understand decision theology, holiness teaching, Pentecostalism, or, for that matter, the Promise Keepers without understanding Revivalism. Revivalism emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century in what has been called the Second Great Awakening.