2.1 How Did the Pentecostal Movement Come to Canada?

[Curtis]

I think in the past some in the past felt Old Church’s they came out of required much more education in ministry and that some of the early Pentecostals thought Church would hinder the work of the Holy Spirit.

[ECO]

It’s true, sometimes people have believed that “organized” church institutions would hinder the work of the Spirit, but it is also true that grassroots and spontaneous movements that were common in early Pentecostalism can be hard to sustain. So it isn’t surprising that organization quickly followed in the early days of Pentecostalism.