This was a strongly proselytizing church influenced by Plymouth Brethren ideas of church polity, rather exclusivist and often in conflict with denominational and mission churches.
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Pentecostalism stresses the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" and the use of supernatural spiritual gifts such as prophecy, healing, and speaking in unknown tongues, and is fired by a strong millennialism (expecting the return of Christ at any moment; this feature was also characteristic of many others of the newer mission groups (especially Holiness and Adventist ones).
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From the mid-1920s onward Watchman Nee, strongly influenced by Plymouth Brethren ideas (especially premillennialism) but also by a stress on the Holy Spirit derived from the Holiness tradition, was an inspiring and compelling teacher.
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The Chongqing Chinese Self-supporting Methodist Church (Chinese: 重庆中华基督教自养美道会) is an independent Chinese Christian church founded in Chongqing by Liu Ziru (刘子如, 1870–1948) in 1915.