AMERICAN CHRISTIAN #31

Azusa Street (Part 1)

Acts 2:17, God says, He will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.  And we do see His Spirit being poured out.  Today’s episode we are off to LA’s Azusa Street in the early 1900’s.  What can one man do?  Frank Bartleman, was a man burdened by the Spirit to get people to pray and intercede for revival.  Bartleman also sent multiple letters to Evan Roberts of the Welsh Revival (1904-1905), and truly travailed for the salvation of the lost.  Churches that were travailing and ‘anticipating wonderful things’, were found in Bartleman’s site, places like Joseph Smale’s First Baptist Church in Los Angeles.  California was a melting pot of culture, a place where son’s and daughter’s and the young and old did received the Spirit of God upon their flesh.  Much went on behind the scenes before the outpouring of Azusa Street.

(30 mins)