Assemblies of God USA

==== Christian and Missionary Alliance ====
The Stone Church and the North Avenue Mission were the "main exporters" of Pentecostalism to [[Christian and Missionary Alliance]] (CMA) churches of the Midwest and Northeast. The CMA was a [[Higher Life movement|higher life]] denomination founded by [[A. B. Simpson]].{{Sfn|Creech|1996|pp=416–417}}

Simpson and other Alliance leaders were cautiously receptive to the new movement. In the spring of 1907, the Alliance's annual council was convinced "that God [was] now visiting His people in many places with a special manifestation of power".<ref>''Christian and Missionary Alliance'', 8 June 1907, 205, quoted in {{harvtxt|Blumhofer|1993|p=103}}</ref> Throughout the summer of 1907, aspects of the Pentecostal revival were on display at CMA events. At the Beulah Park Convention in Collinwood, Ohio, it was reported that "God poured out His Spirit upon the people in general and upon others in particular, so that they spoke with new tongues and magnified God. The sick were healed and demons were expelled".<ref>"Beulah Park Convention," ''Christian and Missionary Alliance'', 14 September 1907, 128, quoted in {{harvtxt|Blumhofer|1993|p=103}}</ref>

While Simpson was not opposed to speaking in tongues, he opposed the doctrine of evidentiary tongues. In 1914, the Alliance adopted an official position stating, "the consecrated believer may receive the Spirit in His fulness without speaking in tongues or any miraculous manifestation whatever."<ref>"Official Statement of the Board of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Setting Forth Its Position with Reference to 'Tongues' and the Baptism of the Spirit," Alliance Collection, AGA, quoted in {{harvtxt|Blumhofer|1993|p=105}}</ref> Afterwards, CMA members who believed strongly in evidentiary tongues left the Alliance. After Simpson's death, the Alliance became more hostile to tongue-speaking. [[A. W. Tozer]] coined the phrase "seek not, forbid not" that summarized the CMA stance on speaking in tongues.{{Sfn|Blumhofer|1993|p=105}}

The CMA had a profound influence on the Assemblies of God. According to historian Joe Creech, the Assemblies of God derived its "hymnody, healing doctrine, ecclesiology, and organizational structures" from the CMA.{{Sfn|Creech|1996|p=417}} While the Apostolic Faith Movement drew its adherents from the rural Southwest, the CMA and Chicago Pentecostals were primarily Northern middle-class evangelicals. Many of the AG's future leaders had CMA backgrounds.{{Sfn|Creech|1996|p=418}}