I think the events of last week in Houston reveal a movement whose identity lies in an illusion and reifying of the past ...
From Scott Graham's "Trickle Down Theology" message, to 100K offerings only spurred when the shoes of "icons" were offered, to a revisionist tale of the role of Houston and other Pentecostal pioneers to ornate Victorian cameos or brooches in uncut hair ... we are seeing the face of the UPCI in the 21st century ...
it's one fossilized and fashioned in the mid 20th century ... in the nostalgia and worship of a generation passed.
What is the shelf life of such a movement?
"General Superintendent Bro. Bernard with the lamp that lit Rev. Parham's pulpit in Houston Texas, when the Apostolic Faith message came to Texas in 1905"