A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
pastor Leonhard Steiner had a poor opinion of
Branham’s campaign in Zurich. He wrote that the call
to make a decision for Christ was “disturbingly vague.
No real call to repentance could be distinguished.”
Branham assembled a management team of three
men: Jack Moore, Gordon Lindsay, and W. J. E. “Ern”
Baxter. Moore was a United Pentecostal pastor in
Shreveport, Louisiana, who was so impressed with
Branham that he devoted himself to managing Branham’s
campaigns.
Moore contacted his friend Gordon Lindsay, who was
a minister of the Assemblies of God and a convert of
Charles Parham. Lindsay resigned his position to become
Branham’s full-time manager. He wrote a book about him
entitled A Man Sent from God, and he started a magazine
called Voice of Healing to promote Branham’s ministry.
Lindsay soon expanded coverage to other healing ministries
that were quickly springing up, however, which
caused Branham to part company with him. Ultimately
Lindsay adopted the name of Christ for the Nations for his
ministry, his magazine, and the Bible institute he founded
in Dallas, Texas.
Ern Baxter was an independent Pentecostal who traveled
with Branham for a time. He was greatly influenced
by the Latter Rain movement a few years later, although
he eventually became concerned about errors in it. He
ultimately joined the Charismatic movement and became
one of the foremost leaders of the Shepherding movement.
(See chapter 10.)
F. F. Bosworth, who had left the Assemblies of God
because he rejected the initial evidence doctrine, joined
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