Lesson Six
The Finished Work of Calvary

The Second Work of Grace
•	Holiness/Methodist Converts
•	“Second Work of Grace” doctrine
o	Being sanctified wholly and becoming dead to sin
•	Way of thinking offered problems and raised questions 

William H. Durham
•	Pastor, North Avenue Mission in Chicago
•	Was prophesied to him that wherever he would preach, the power of God would fall
•	He stopped preaching about the “second work of grace!” 

Finished Work of Calvary
•	Durham started preaching “The finished work of Calvary” disregarding the “Second work of grace doctrine”
•	Declared himself at a convention in 1910

Controversy Over the Doctrine
•	Much confusion and bitterness over the change of doctrine
•	Durham preached the doctrine on Seventh and Los Angeles Streets in LA.
•	The doctrine spread everywhere and most Pentecostal groups accepted it

COURSE:  HISTORY OF PENTECOST

LESSON SIX
                             SELF HELP TEST

A. Explain  clearly  the  difference  between  these  two  doctrines:  (a)  Second  Word of Grace; and (b) Finished Work of Calvary.
B. Write an account of the controversy that took place around these two doctrines.
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