Who is Aimee Semple McPherson?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- A brief look at the life and history of Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of The Foursquare Church movement. It includes rarely seen video footage of Sister McPherson and is narrated by several Foursquare ministers that knew her personally. Created in 1991 and updated in 2016.
“A Look Back, Copyright 2016, The Foursquare Church”
Best, documentary of her we seen in the 21 century
Thank God for this powerful woman of God. Learned about her recently and was blown away by her success in accomplishing the great comission. Thanks you🙏🙏🙏
@@dessalegnenegussie2963 How sad you believe Christianity is real. Much of the Pentateuch is copied from Plato, Genesis is copied from the Epic of Gilgamesh and other ancient stories, the gospel of Mark is copied from Homer. It is a Bronze Age mythology that makes claims that defy the laws of science and should be categorized the same as Greek, Roman, Egyptian and every other ancient mythology. Read comparative religions to learn the truth.
She was the forerunner of the Word/Faith movement, as well as the Counterfeit Revival.
Counterfeit revival?
Wow…..she obeyed marvelously…..look what a laid down life can do in Christ…..wow and again i say wow
She was definitely an imperfect person with many flaws as so many of us have. Yet, In spite of that, she was used mightily by God with thousands of salvations as well as miracles and healings. What a great testimony and legacy.
Soul lifting
Sister, she was not mightily used of God. She was in straight rebellion to God. First of all by being a woman preacher, scripture forbids women preachers. second of all she abandoned her true calling of being a faithful wife. Let’s read our bibles and stop kidding ourselves, let’s be honest Aimee semple was in straight rebellion to God.
Nobody is correct here. Aimee Semple McPherson was in show business, but instead of conventional show business, she used religion. Did she do some good along the way? Sure, but first and foremost she sought fame and fortune (and got both) just like other famous evangelists. God didn't use her; she used God.
Bible and our constitution says separation of church and state. People ok with this aren't really Christian and are clowns
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She was in rebellion to religion.
Did you know that you are actually the one in rebellion! Did you know that you are being lied to by demonic spirits.
The same ones that had Jesus hung on the cross!
You speak like you know what the Bible says ... You take a verse out of context. You also have no understanding.
I pray that you will be healed.
God bless
A Woman of God ❤️ definitely A Women of Influence 💯❤️
I love cults❤
I love her , her life is great example for me how to worship to God
Putting it lightly, she definitely had her flaws but she still preached the gospel, fed, clothed,sheltered people.
Exactly so!
Foursquare is a powerful movement of churches and ministers.
Waooo, aje rose beyond the limit and left an impact which still continues till date... It's not about fame but it was about saving the lost souls.
My Grandmother kept a portrait of this women in her home until she died at 92 in 1992.
That's not good 😢
What a treasure. A great blessing to millions
I LOVE THAT SHE WAS AVAILABLE TO BE SPENT FOR THE GOSPEL!
Truly outstanding!! Praise God !!
She ain't nothing
What a perfection of God. Where's the fire in Christians now. Some are so afraid to even mention the name of Yeshua the Christ😢
Amazing what God can do with a submitted life. What an amazing testimony
Submitted???? Are you drunk? She violated expressly stated rule in Bible which forbidds women to preach.
Women can preach. Can't be elders or lead pastors
It will Amaze you that day when Women preachers who will receive crowns are more than Men preachers.@@dragandragic6601
This is very beautiful
Loved that she fed the poor.
A Woman of God ❤
Aimee Semple McPherson set the stage for the modern-day TV evangelist preaching from their megachurch while also being a total hypocrite.
--On This Day in History, Shit Went Down: May 18, 1926--
Fond of radio evangelizing, Aimee popularized using modern media to transform Jesus into home entertainment. Born in Canada in 1890 to a Methodist family, she was taught evolution in high school and didn’t like that one bit. She wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper asking why taxes were being spent to teach heathen science. People from across the country replied to that letter. She got her first taste of fame and liked it.
At 17 she married a Pentecostal missionary and converted. He died of dysentery two years later. She remarried soon after (twice, and divorced twice) and started her ministry, ending up in Los Angeles in 1918, because she wanted to be in show business: fundamentalist Christian show business, with faith healing and speaking in tongues and all that.
She started the Foursquare Church, which now has more than 350,000 members, using radio evangelizing to raise funds to build one of the first megachurches: Angelus Temple, which still packs ‘em in.
Aimee continued her fight against Darwinism, using her now-massive platform to side against its teaching during the time of the 1925 Scopes Trial. But she wasn’t all bad. She desegregated her churches, and the KKK attended services in full garb in response, but the story goes they were so touched that hoods and robes were found on the ground afterward. Aimee was also dedicated to charity work.
But there were also the scandals. On May 18, 1926, Aimee was “kidnapped” from a beach in Santa Monica. More than a month later she showed up in Arizona with a fantastic tale. She said she’d been abducted and hidden in a shack in the Mexican desert, but eventually escaped and walked 20 miles to the border. Tens of thousands greeted her return to Los Angeles. Prosecutors investigated her claim and came to the conclusion she’d actually spent several weeks shacking up with a former employee in a resort town.
Aimee and others were charged with criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice, and the case was set for trial, but eventually dismissed for lack of evidence. There were claims of numerous other affairs, financial improprieties, and several lawsuits against her. She also fell from grace with the press. None of this deterred her faithful followers.
She died of an unprescribed barbiturate overdose at the age of 53, which was ruled accidental.
Get ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY SH!T WENT DOWN at JamesFell.com/books.
Oh God in Christ Jesus🩸name🙇🏻♂️ Help Me🙏🏼 to be🙇🏻♂️🦅🔥
A great woman of God!
Something how Africans and AFRICAN DESCENDANTS so dawn on these pale skins but can't celebrate their own people,
A woman in great disorder.
Very good God bless forever. Brazil
She did more for the people than, the ones that actually Caused the Great Depression!!
Sempre admirei
I attended angles temple gor 5 years with the Dream Center. Beautiful place
Can you help me. Please check for Photos linked with Mr Gandhi and McPherson. Please if you visit again.
Yes
Proud Foursquarian
Praise God 👋🏿👋🏿
Ela sempre foi linda
Odd that this video did not tell the complete story of Ms. McPherson, skipping over the time she went "missing" and claimed it to be a kidnapping. Too bad the editors were not honest and truthful with the viewers.
Jay Dog it wasn't relevant to the the gospel message being presented! :)
She was also married 3 times - and divorced twice. A direct violation of Matthew 19 verse 9.
@@deborahnorris373 Honesty is not relevant to the gospel message? Doesn’t sound like the Bible I read.
@@deborahnorris373 funny stuff.
@@deborahnorris373 The details of Aimee Semple McPherson's life may not be relevant to the Gospel message, but they are relevant when you want to present who she was.
Ok it’s my understanding, at least at this point, that this woman opened a church for both women and men. How do we get past the fact that God’s word tells women not to teach men nor have authority over a man when the body of Christ is gathered?
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“When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers.
There is a similar system of discrimination, extending far beyond a small geographical region to the entire globe; it touches every nation, perpetuating and expanding the trafficking in human slaves, body mutilation, and even legitimized murder on a massive scale.
This system is based on the presumption that men and boys are superior to women and girls, and it is supported by some male religious leaders who distort the Holy Bible, the Koran, and other sacred texts to perpetuate their claim that females are, in some basic ways, inferior to them, unqualified to serve God on equal terms.
Many men disagree but remain quiet in order to enjoy the benefits of their dominant status. This false premise provides a justification for sexual discrimination in almost every realm of secular and religious life.”
Jimmy Carter, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
"When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.
For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.
Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers."
Katha Pollitt
"Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism."
Simone de Beauvoir
“When we look closely, not only at what Jesus taught but at how he went about disseminating his message, time and again we find that what he was preaching was the gospel of a partnership society. He rejected the dogma that high-ranking men - in Jesus' day, priests, nobles, rich men, and kings - are the favorites of God. He mingled freely with women, thus openly rejecting the male-supremacist norms of his time. And in sharp contrast to the views of later Christian sages, who actually debated whether woman has an immortal soul, Jesus did not preach the ultimate dominator message: that women are spiritually inferior to men.
Indeed, if we look closely at the art of the Neolithic, it is truly astonishing how much of its Goddess imagery has survived-and that most standard works on the history of religion fail to bring out this fascinating fact.
The Cretans’ more natural attitudes toward sex would also have had other consequences equally difficult to perceive under the prevailing paradigm, wherein religious dogma often views sex as more sinful than violence.
As Hawkes writes, “The Cretans seem to have reduced and diverted their aggressiveness through a free and well-balanced sexual life.”33 Along with their enthusiasm for sports and dancing and their creativity and love of life, these liberated attitudes toward sex seem to have contributed to the generally peaceful and harmonious spirit predominant in Cretan life.
The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected a social order in which women, first as heads of clans and priestesses and later on in other important roles, played a central part, and in which both men and women worked together in equal partnership for the common good.
If there was here no glorification of wrathful male deities or rulers carrying thunderbolts or arms, or of great conquerors dragging abject slaves about in chains, it is not unreasonable to infer it was because there were no counterparts for those images in real life.
And if the central religious image was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life-rather than death and the fear of death-were dominant in society as well as art.”
Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
"Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances."
Florence Nightingale
“Give my greetings to the brothers and sisters at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.”
Colossians 4:15
Paul who stated “for woman not to preach” to the church in Corinth was because of the situations happening at that particular church. Paul in Colossians is greeting sister Nympha whose church is at her house and she’s holding the title of an elder, teacher, or preacher. Paul in his other letters is constantly upholding the work of the sisters who labor for the gospel with him. Many groups of reformed theology or denominations have taken couple verses out of context to prohibit the woman to teach in church or have authority. But there’s many more verses, and stories in scripture where God Almighty uses woman for His purpose.
God will use stones and a donkey if He wants to. We are all called to share the good news and there’s no more male or female in Christ. We’re all one. We all summit to the head that is Christ. We’re all members with different functions and gifts to be used for the service of one another in love. Hope this can help and be encouraged. Grace and blessings 🙏
@@OccupyHeaven God bless you and thanks for your reply.
Colossians 4:15 is not saying she was an elder over that church nor the teacher even, just that she was hosting a church service at her house. So that wouldn’t make her an elder, sorry. Keep in mind Paul reasons from the fall in the garden when it comes to woman not having authority over men nor teaching them.
While I do appreciate your reasons for not believing this way I also hope you could appreciate my reasons for not seeing this your way.
Again, God bless you neighbor… 😇
@@OccupyHeaventhere are many stories of great women doing great things, women at times opened their homes to have church. Paul was very clear about not having women elders and leaders and so forth. Nothing is wrong with the women teaching. But never as lead over men. It's in the Bible.
@@jayman1338I haven't read it but I've heard that Loreen Cunningham wrote a good classic on the subject called "Why not women?"
She fit in perfectly well in Los Angeles, CA
GO OUT PREACH ABOUT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST
I'm speaking in tongues now
She was the first evangelical grifter on a massive scale.
Babilonia maravillosa! Wonderful babylon. 2:18
Wow she cared
This was Hillsong before Hillsong
Yes a fake
No, it was Calvary before Calvary. This is where Chuck Smith comes from 🙂
Us me Lord
Do our part? Go
Does Kennett Ormiston mean anything to you?
"Down by the ocean, down by the sea, there sits Aimee with Ormiston on his knees." ??? On the other hand, there were reports of miracle like a man who was blind without eyes in his eye sockets, and the report is that the eyes grew back in the sockets. If that report is true, Satan is unable to replicate a miracle like that. There were also the fact that Aimee Semple McPherson worked with a Priest of the Catholic Church to help the poor. No, not a perfect person, one needs to weight what Romans 11:29 means when it says, "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance," (KJV) and also Matthew 7:22-23, together with the Sheep and the Goats of Matthew 25. I think that Aimee Semple McPherson did practice the requirements for in Matthew 7. A very interesting person.
May 1926, McPherson disappeared and was thought to have been drowned while swimming off the California coast. A month later she turned up in Mexico, claiming to have been kidnapped, but the evidence led most people to believe that she had an affair with a former employee, Kenneth Ormiston, who was married at the time. The two had been seen together earlier in the year during Aimee McPherson’s trip to Europe. At the same time Aimee sailed for Europe, Ormiston disappeared from his job, and his wife, Ruth, registered a missing-person report at police headquarters. She told police a certain prominent woman was responsible for her husband’s disappearance (Lately Thomas, The Vanishing Evangelist, p. 29). They had also been seen together checking into the same hotels at various times in California, after her return from Europe, prior to the alleged kidnapping. Though McPherson claimed to have wandered for 14 hours across roughly 20 miles of cruel desert covered with mesquite, cactus, and catclaw to escape her captors, when she was found she showed no sign of having been through such an ordeal. Her shoes were not scuffed or worn; there were grass stains on the insteps (there was no grass in the desert through which she claims to have wandered); she was not dehydrated or sunburned; her lips were not parched, cracked, or swollen; her tongue was not swollen; her color was normal; her dress was not torn and bore no dust or perspiration stains. The dress collar and cuffs, though white in color, were barely soiled. Further, she was wearing a watch her mother had given her-a watch she had not taken with her to the beach! (Epstein, Sister Aimee, p. 299; Thomas, The Vanishing Evangelist, p. 59,66,78). Aimee told reporters that her ankles were bruised and torn by ropes from her captivity, but there had been no sign of such injuries when she was examined. An exhaustive search was made to find the adobe shack with a wooden floor where she claimed she had been held captive and which she described in detail to the authorities, but no such shack was found in a 46-square-mile area. Experienced desert men and trackers (one had ridden that country as a cowboy for 37 years, another for 20), who attempted to find her attackers, traced her footsteps, and they found where she apparently had gotten out of an automobile on a road not far from where she was found. The senior tracker testified that he examined every foot of the ground over which she had claimed to have walked and that her tracks had been found nowhere. As for the shack, he said: “I do not know of an adobe house such as the one described by Mrs. McPherson within a hundred and fifty miles of Agua Prieta, and I know every house in this vast area” (Lately, The Vanishing Evangelist, p. 84). A grocery receipt signed by McPherson was found in a Carmel, California, cottage where it appears Aimee had met Ormiston during the time she was alleged to have been kidnapped. Several eye-witnesses testified that they saw the two together during that period.
The year after this episode, McPherson rejected the social taboos preached against by Bible-believing churches of that day. She bobbed her hair and started drinking, dancing, and wearing short skirts. In her early years she had preached against such things. Her choir director, Gladwyn Nichols, and the entire 300-member choir resigned because of her lifestyle. He told the press that they left because of “Aimee’s surrender to worldliness-her wardrobe of fancy gowns and short skirts, jewelry, furs, her new infatuation with cosmetics and bobbed hair, all specifically condemned by the Scriptures” (Robert Bahr, Least of All Saints, p. 259).
I'm curious. They must have a bunch of her sermons and radio broadcasts. Did she preach the gospel and teach the word? I didn't know she got into worldiness towards the end.
Well assembled hear say. We are saved by Grace through faith, not perfection. When I read Romans 11:29 For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn. I realized God's great love to draw people to Himself that he will use even broken people, who are willing, to call a lost world to Jesus the only Savior. The Gospel is the Power of God unto Salvation to all who believe. Romans 1:16 not the preacher woman or man. The Gospel when believed is the power demonstrated in changed unshackled lives. The voice doesn't matter. Hope this helps.
And you without sin cast the first stone
Can I have a copy of that book please
If the gospel being preached does not have an impact, seen through evidence of humility and death to worldliness, in the life of the one preaching, its likely a false gospel.
Um?Why does she Sound like Katherine Kuhlman?
She and Uncle Miltie had “a thing”
That was never proven.
And we regret not meeting you
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Who dared to say Jesus
The woman divorced her husband and left her family in favor of “doing the work of God.” I attended Foursquare churches for over 20 years. McPherson has a dubious legacy. False teacher.
Aimee was the reincarnation of Mary Magdalene The twin flame of Jesus.
True ❤ she even looks similar to her current incarnation;)
Reincarnation is not biblical
God is not only Biblical, God is Universal.@@jessieJ410
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@@jessieJ410 it is, you just dont understand what you read.
I want a wife like that 😢 🙏🏽
Didn't see have an affair?
There is something very “off” promoting the good of this evangelist and not exposing how she exceeded her mandate. I am foursquare and I do not condone her life as something to be modeled. She was a rebel in the house of God and although God covered her sin and used her efforts for good the fact remains obedience is better than sacrifice. She would have done well to remain with her second husband and submitted to the Lord there. Foursquare leaders need to talk about that and not promote women in leadership over men, 1 Timothy 2:11-15. Paul is speaking under the power of the Holy Spirit. Aimee in many ways was a rebel although her heart desperately wanted to be relevant in life she listened to what quite possibly was a seducing spirit. She died from a drug overdose. Come on foursquare let’s call a spade a spade! Yes preach the gospel but straighten out this doctrine that is foursquare. Men are leaders over men period!
She died from a drug overdose??
@@CourageDearHeart316 yes, please read other sources
@@CourageDearHeart316 They say that is was probable that it was an accident by taking too many sleeping pills.
No black people in the church neither? Goodness
Longfortruth1 is well narrated hear say. Typical down in his basement, arm chair critic. Longfortruth1 wouldn't lift a finger to save a soul. So to console his afflicted soul of his guilt, instead of obeying Mark 16:15-16 like Aimee, they throw stones and accuse to tear Christians down. What spirit are they that accuse? Revelation 12:10. God uses people who are willing because proper "christians" like you and longfortruth1 are not. So you Bible thump and think you are righteous. Blind guides and hypocrites. You do the work as the Bible says and God won't need to call the Aimees of the world. Acts 2:17-19 read it an weep.
Very well said. Let us not forget she truly added 1,000's to the Kingdom of the one true God.
they has sources I'm so glad I saw there video I'm so glad I watched the whole thing some of the things were way more ther hear say and they made sure to say it was just rumors and they didn't make harsh accusations
it was so helpful to me to see so if you are seeing the comment above I wouldn't completely ignore any bad info about her
@@ZzzzYyyy-kp7dz Please share what was factually true in the article? What souls has longfortruth1 evangelized?
What a pathetic white washing of this characters life. She was packed full of flaws and you make it sound like she was gods right hand.
Tienes razón en lo que dices, nadie está libro de pecado pero está mujer abandonó a su marido porque supuestamente Dios la "llamó" para predicar ¿Como Jesuscristo podría incitar a sus hijos a cometer pecado? Están embelleciendo la naturaleza pecaminosa y por lo tanto no es válido!
You two see past the glossiness of the presentation that was given here, and I fully commend you for it. God never called her to the Ministry...she called herself to the Ministry...and we see what happened. This always happens, when someone goes against the Word of God! This was proven through her faked "Kidnapping" story...and it was furthered by the sinful lifestyle that she embraced, later on. She had apparently become a drug addict, and died of a drug overdose in 1944. Some say that her overdose was accidental...but I don't know for sure, if this was true.
She was one of the biggest blights on Christianity, and tragically, others have followed her erroneous "Ministry", & still proclaim her to be a Mighty Woman of God...when it was the farthest thing from the truth!
@@ronaldshank7589if God did not call her, her ministry would still not be in existence. Also Jesus Christ called Judas to be his disciple but we all see how he ended......does it mean he called himself? Apparently! No!! Jesus called him.
Pentecostal Missionary Church Of Christ (4thwatch) founder before is foursquare pastor
If Aimee wanted to have a tryst she didn't need to fake a kidnapping. People should stop circulating this fake story. She was a HOLY woman!!!!!
That story is TRUE. WAKE THE F UP
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