Thank you for writing and sharing the difficult experience you had.

My background is not in the churches that came out of the Azusa Street revival. In fact, I’m more a Welsh Revival charismatic with roots in the Lutheran Church. I’m very familiar, though, with the excesses in Pentecostalism and the AoG. In spite of that, I attended a very good AoG church pastored by my neighbor of many years and grew in it immensely. I attend a Pentecostal church now, but it’s fairly well balanced, too.

Still, I know of what you speak, though I’ve not heard too many Azusa-based churches that take a view of suffering as a blessing for others. If anything, that’s more an Anglican/Catholic view.

I prayed for you just now. Be blessed, and thanks for reading..