Assemblies of God in New Zealand Incorporated

The roots of the Assemblies of God Movement in New Zealand are both ancient and modern.

Our current testimony to the power and person of the Holy Spirit reaches back over almost two thousand years of church history to the day of Pentecost when the Church was born.

However, it was not until the beginning of the 20th Century that the modern Pentecostal Movement was born when students at a Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, came to the conclusion that the biblical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit was speaking in other tongues. From that point on there were outbreaks of spiritual revival accompanied by Pentecostal phenomena, as in the Welsh Revival of 1904 and at Azusa St, Los Angeles, in 1906.

As the message of a new Pentecost spread far and wide it encountered such opposition from the Church of that day, that Pentecostals found it necessary to set up their own church structures, one of which is the Assemblies of God, now found in most countries throughout the world.

The fundamental philosophy of Assemblies of God Movements worldwide is one of cooperative fellowship between local churches. This is based upon mutual agreements voluntarily entered into by the members of those churches and with four principal aims in view:

1. To encourage and promote the evangelisation of the world

2. To provide a basis for the nurture, equipping and edifying of Christians who share the same precious faith

3. To establish and maintain churches where God is worshipped in spirit and truth according to what the scriptures teach

4. To approve all scriptural teachings, methods and conduct, and to disapprove of all unscriptural teachings, methods and conduct.

While recognising the right of a local church to govern itself in accordance with biblical principles, Assemblies of God Movements see clear evidence in the New Testament scriptures of churches in a particular area being linked together (1 Corinthians 16:1,19; 2 Corinthians 8:1).

The Assemblies of God in New Zealand is thus an attempt to emulate the New Testament suggestion of self-governing churches working together in cooperative fellowship. National Office for A/G churches in NZ. Part of worldwide Pentecostal church movement. Co-ordinates missions and missionaries to nations of the world. Distributes Empowered magazine, Christian books, brochures, pamphlets. Facilitates Distance Learning through International Correspondence Institute (ICI).

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