Charismatic Movement
"One of the most divisive issues in the Church of the Nazarene in the 1960s and 1970s was speaking in tongues." The Church of the Nazarene's historic prohibition on glossolalia was challenged increasingly by Nazarenes influenced by the Charismatic Movement that originated in the USA in the 1960s. At the 1972 General Assembly each delegate received a packet of materials advocating a charismatic revival in the denomination and for an acceptance of tongues-speaking members.