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There's always the "Free Will Baptists" who are basically AoG-Lite.
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I used to attend the Freewill Baptist Church in 1975. Our particular Church was Pastored by an exceptional man among their group. This is a true story. My cousin and I had been deep into drugs in this city. We had come to Jesus and were attending this Church.
On Mothers Day of that year a guy came into the meeting that we knew. He was one of the drug dealers in the area and my cousin knew him well. The Pastor walked right up and preached him into Hell. He got up and went to the altar to repent. My cousin and I got down to pray with him and he was shocked when he saw who it was praying with him!
Now heres the powerful part. Afterwards "Charlie" told us why he had come to Church that morning. The week leading up to this the Pastor had been visiting someone in Charlies neighborhood. At the same time Charlies son had fell off a second story roof and he told us his son was dead.
Now the Pastor being in the neighborhood saw the commotion and came to the scene. Charlie told us the Pastor prayed for his son and he came back to life! After thanking the Pastor for praying he invited him to come to Church which was why he had showed up there that morning.
I was in that Church for a season and the Pastor was not the typical Freewill Baptist in that he was a hard hell fire preacher who was not afraid to pray for the sick. Nonetheless he did not believe in speaking in tongues.
I would say they were not AOG like in the doctrine but at least the one I attended was exciting for a Baptist group.