Genuine Gold: The Cautiously Charismatic Story of the Early Christian and Missionary Alliance

Genuine Gold: The Cautiously Charismatic Story of the Early Christian and Missionary Alliance The title says it all! This book is packed with facts, dates, names and places. Anyone that is in the CMA or has been needs to read this book. You will see how far the CMA has moved from it's founding roots. Don't let the historical, factual details scare you aware. This is a must read for all Alliance people today.

A great history of the Alliance and its connection with early Pentacostalism and eventual split with the Assemblies of God over evidential tongues and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Very thorough and well documented.

Being a former A/G minister now in the Alliance this book was wonderful. We are a pentecostal/charismatic Alliance church and Dr. Kings work has completely re-affirmed this direction. The Alliance has affirmed the gifts and person of the Holy Spirit, without the "intial phsycial evidence" doctrine. Amen. Read it if you are A/G read it if you're Alliance. Also a great discussion of the people who left the Alliance for the A/G and people who later left the A/G to join or come back to the Alliance. A GREAT corrective for Edith L. Blumhofer's history of the A/G as regards the Alliance.

I heard Paul King speak at a conference and I was impressed by what he said. I purchaced his book "Genunine Gold" and found it to be the most exciting book about the C & MA I have ever read. My admiration for Dr. A. B. Simpson, the founder of the C & MA, skyrocketed. I believe this book should be required reading for every minister and worker in the C & MA. It is well researched and documented. If you want to learn about the exciting Spirit-filled ministry of the early C & MA this is a must read book.

Genuine Gold: The Cautiously Charismatic Story of the Early Christian and Missionary Alliance documents the supernatural heritage of the early Christian and Missionary Alliance (C & MA) -- welcoming the supernatural with discernment -- and calls the denomination to embrace again the charismatic dimensions of the Holy Spirit today and to return to its originally close relation to the Pentecostal-charismatic movement. Author Paul L. King, C & MA historian and theologian, shows how the early C & MA, a robustly evangelical movement, embraced many practices and doctrines of the new Pentecostal movement following the famous Azusa Street Revival of 1906. Yet in following decades, the C & MA distanced itself from the Pentecostal and later charismatic movements. The reasons? Partly because the C & MA insisted on a non-exclusive view of speaking in tongues and on discernment -- distinguishing the gold of genuine manifestations of the Holy Spirit from the spurious. But also because the C & MA allied itself increasingly with non-Pentecostal evangelicalism. Genuine Gold urges the C & MA to reverse its drift and to rekindle the flame of spiritual renewal through its carefully documented history of the Alliance's early vibrancy. It is meticulous (hundreds of end-notes and thoroughly indexed), meaty, and of high merit in historical reporting and theological analysis.