Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Cambridge Seven

Although my great-grandparents went to China as Pentecostal missionaries of a sort during a time when Pentecostalism was new and lots of people were just up and quitting their jobs and hopping ships to China and Africa and other places to deliver the Gospel message that was such a new and amazing thing to them at the time. Many of those people were just regular working folks, not trained clergy with advanced theology degrees, and yet they accomplished quite a bit in spite of themselves. Certainly no one would confuse Pentecostalism with the "Cambridge Seven," although maybe there was a slight connection through the Pentecostal Missionary Union, of which one of the Cambridge Seven was possibly a founder, Cecil Polhill, not that I would know anything about that. We in America are mostly not aware of the English connection although there is one. It's just that no one ever really explains this so we don't understand.