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In 1906, William J. Seymour arrived in Los Angeles. He the weak things of the world to shame the strong” (1
was scheduled to preach at a Holiness mission in the city. Corinthians 1:27).Seymour’s path to leadership reminds us
After Seymour preached about speaking in tongues, we must never let our past or present circumstances defeat
however, the mission literally locked him out.Undeterred, God’s intended future for us.2. Don’t let culture define your
Seymour joined a prayer meeting in a private home. As its place in God’s kingdom. Seymour’s ministry took place
members experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit and during the height of legal segregation. He knew the sting of
spoke in tongues, the number of participants grew. On Easter racial prejudice. He experienced the effects of systemic
Sunday, April 15, the little congregation led by Seymour racism. Jim Crow kept Blacks and whites separate and
moved to 312 Azusa Street.For the next three years, Azusa unequal.Racism and Jim Crow even affected Christian
Street was the epicenter of the Pentecostal revival. From ministries. For example, Seymour attended Charles F.
small beginnings, Pentecostalism in various forms has Parham’s Bible school in Houston, Texas, for a time.
grown to include more than half a billion souls. It is one of Parham allowed him to attend lectures, but while white
history’s most consequential people movements. The students sat in the classroom, Seymour had to sit in the
Assemblies of God, along with other Pentecostal hallway. Parham invited Seymour to join his evangelism
denominations, traces its history to Azusa Street.As America team, but allowed him to preach only to Blacks.Other
celebrates Black History Month, it is fitting that we honor the ministries practiced integration, however, and Seymour
leadership of Seymour, whose contributions to followed their example. His leadership at Azusa Street was
Pentecostalism at a critical moment in its history were so successful in this regard that Frank Bartleman famously
incalculable. As Christians, we can learn five lessons from observed that “the ‘color line’ was washed away in the
his leadership.1. Don’t let your social location defeat your Blood” at the mission.Azusa Street was an egalitarian
spiritual destiny. The term social location describes factors mission, too. Seymour opened doors of ministry for women
that indicate a person’s position in society, such as race, as well as men. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, though.
class and ability.Born in 1870 to emancipated slaves, After all, didn’t Peter preach that the outpouring of the Holy
Seymour was Black in a nation that had recently abolished Spirit would be for “all people” — “sons and daughters,”
slavery but was beginning to institute Jim Crow segregation. “both men and women” (Acts 2:17–18)?Seymour’s revival
Seymour’s parents owned a small farm, but they were leadership reminds us that God has a place at His table for
working poor, and Seymour often earned money as a all kinds of people. As Galatians 3:28, that great charter of
laborer. In the early 1900s, he contracted smallpox and lost Christian unity puts it, “There is neither Jew nor Gentile,
his left eye, replacing it with a glass prosthetic eye.”The neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you
Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of are all one in Christ Jesus.”As Pentecostals, we must live
God’s love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a and lead, reaching across cultural dividing lines to pull people
counterfeit.” –William J. SeymourBy any human from the margins to the center of Christian fellowship and
measurement, Seymour lived on the margins of American Kingdom influence.3. Keep your eyes on Christ, not your
society: Black, working class, disabled. And yet, when God critics. Seymour and the Azusa Street mission endured
poured out His Spirit at Azusa Street, He started at those criticism from the early days of the revival.For example,
margins, choosing Seymour to lead this consequential three days after Seymour’s little congregation started
revival.Starting at the margins is not a new thing for God. meetings on Azusa Street, the Los Angeles Times ran a
Indeed, Seymour is proof of Paul’s words: “God chose the front-page story titled, “Weird Babel of Tongues.” The story’s
foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose lede dripped with disdain: “Breathing strange utterances and