The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel developed out of the evangelistic, ministry of

Aimee Semple McPherson. But while she became the Founder of the movement, she would have
been the first to repudiate the idea that she originated the Foursquare message. Though the
Foursquare movement, like all other Pentecostal and Full Gospel organizations, commenced in
the twentieth century, the Foursquare message in Bible days.

The aim of our goal is nothing less than to recover for the present-day-church all the benefits and
blessings which crowned with glory the apostolic church. The Foursquare Gospel, succinctly
spoken, is man released from the hold of sin, redeemed to be all he was originally intended to be
empowered to offensively permeate this planet with resurrection life, and infused with the hope
of the imminent return of the King.

It was in the uplifting of Jesus Christ as the answer to every human need that the very expression
"Foursquare Gospel" originated Sister McPherson had proclaimed the Foursquare message for
about fourteen years before she suddenly grasped the term "Foursquare" to describe that gospel.
The inspiration came from Oakland, California in late July 1922 during her final revival
campaign in the United States during the opening of the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles.

When this phrase "Foursquare Gospel" was born, Sister McPherson was unaware how
prominently the word "Foursquare" appeared in the Scriptures. Further study showed that the
expression begins in the Bible with the description of the Foursquare altar in the Book of Exodus
in the Old Testament and ends with the surveying of the Foursquare City in the Book of
Revelation in the New Testament.