What is a PENTECOSTAL?

What is a PENTECOSTAL?

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Where are we going?Where are we going?

1. Pentecostal Roots 1. Pentecostal Roots

2. Pentecostals Defined 2. Pentecostals Defined

3. Pentecostal High Points3. Pentecostal High Points

Pentecostal HistoryPentecostal History•Wesleyan-Holiness

•Reformed (Non-Calvinists)

•Keswick “Higher Life”

Terms you should knowTerms you should know

•Cessationism

•Continuationism

Pentecostal HistoryPentecostal History• Charles Parham

• Agnes Ozman

• William J. Seymour

Pentecostal HistoryPentecostal History•E.N. Bell• Call for a general council

of Pentecostals

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals DefinedNoting or pertaining to any of various Christian groups, usually fundamentalist, that emphasize the activity of the holy spirit, stress holiness of living, and express their religious feelings uninhibitedly, as by speaking in tongues.

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Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals Defined

 Usually of or relating to any of various Christian groups that emphasize the charismatic aspects of Christianity and adopt a fundamental attitude to the Bible.

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• Paganism• Shamanism• God Light Association

in Japan• Gnostics• Coptics of Egypt• Voodoo• Hindu Gurus

• Fakirs of India• Mormons

• Just to name a few

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals Defined• Unholy Tongue Talkers Bat Man!

• Paganism

• Shamanism

• God Light Association in Japan

• Gnostics

• Coptics of Egypt

• Voodoo

• Hindu Gurus

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals DefinedFrank D. Macchia – The Spirit in the World: Emerging Pentecostal Theologies in Global Context

• Baptism of the Holy Spirit• Salvation• Healing• Rapture

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals DefinedBaptism of the Holy Spirit• This was the normal experience of all in

the early Christian Church.

• enduement of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry.

• Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4, Acts 1:8

Baptism of the Holy Spirit

• The baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues

• Acts 2:4, 1 Corinthians 12:4-10

1 Corinthians 12:28

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals DefinedSalvation/Sanctification• Through the shed blood of

Jesus Christ the Son of God

• Outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals Defined

• Salvation/Sanctification

• An act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God

• Possible to walk away from God

• Romans 12:1,2; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:12; Revelation 3:5

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals Defined

Miracles/Healing

• Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all believers.

• Miracles continue today

• Isaiah 53:4,5; Matthew 8:16,17; James 5:14-16; Acts 2:43

Pentecostals DefinedPentecostals DefinedRapture• The Partial Rapture Theory

• The Post-Tribulation Rapture Theory

• The Mid-Tribulation Rapture Theory

• The Pre-Tribulation Rapture Theory

1 Thessalonians 4:16,17; Romans 8:23;

Titus 2:13; Corinthians 15:51,52

Pentecostal High PointsPentecostal High Points Pentecostals are the largest Christian group in the world representing at least 25% of the world’s 2 billion people.

3 out of 4 Protestants are Pentecostal in Latin America

4 in ten Korean Protestants are Pentecostal/Charismatic

1/10 Korean Catholics are charismatic

HOME WORKHOME WORKRecommended Books

• Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements

• Systematic Theology: A Pentecostal Perspective

• Life in the Spirit Study Bible

• Life in the Spirit Commentary