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Graves, Wilfred Jr. (2011), In Pursuit of Wholeness: Experiencing God's Salvation for the Total Person, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, Inc., ISBN 978-0-7684-3794-2 . Hallum, Anne M. 2002. "Looking for Hope in Central America: the Pentecostal Movement". pp. 225–239, in Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many, edited by T. G. Jelen and C. Wilcox. Cambridge, UK, New York: Cambridge University Press. While a prophetic utterance at times might foretell future events, this is not the primary purpose of Pentecostal prophecy and is never to be used for personal guidance. For Pentecostals, prophetic utterances are fallible, i.e. subject to error. [148] Pentecostals teach that believers must discern whether the utterance has edifying value for themselves and the local church. [154] Because prophecies are subject to the judgement and discernment of other Christians, most Pentecostals teach that prophetic utterances should never be spoken in the first person (e.g. "I, the Lord") but always in the third person (e.g. "Thus saith the Lord" or "The Lord would have..."). [155] Tongues and interpretation [ edit ] Pentecostals pray in tongues at an Assemblies of God church in Cancún, Mexico The New Face of Global Christianity: The Emergence of 'Progressive Pentecostalism' ". Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project. 2006-04-12. Archived from the original on 2023-04-04 . Retrieved 2023-04-04. Paul Harvey and Philip Goff, The Columbia documentary history of religion in America since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2005), 347.Anderson, Allan; Bergunder, Michael; Droogers, Andre (9 May 2012). Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods. University of California Press Scholarship. doi: 10.1525/california/9780520266612.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-520-26661-2. Archived from the original on 19 July 2021 . Retrieved 15 February 2022. With its remarkable ability to adapt to different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world's fastest growing religious movement. Poloma, Margaret M. (1989), The Assemblies of God at the Crossroads: Charisma and Institutional Gerald Archie Mangun (1919–2010) – American evangelist, pastor, who built one of the largest churches within the United Pentecostal Church International a b Levinson, David (1996). Religion: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p.151. ISBN 978-0-87436-865-9. The Finished Work Pentecostals believed that conversion and sanctification were a single act of grace. The Assemblies of God, created in 1914, became the first Finished Work denomination.

Within this radical evangelicalism, expressed most strongly in the Wesleyan–holiness and Higher Life movements, themes of restorationism, premillennialism, faith healing, and greater attention on the person and work of the Holy Spirit were central to emerging Pentecostalism. [25] Believing that the second coming of Christ was imminent, these Christians expected an endtime revival of apostolic power, spiritual gifts, and miracle-working. [26] Figures such as Dwight L. Moody and R. A. Torrey began to speak of an experience available to all Christians which would empower believers to evangelize the world, often termed baptism with the Holy Spirit. [27] Any Spirit-filled Christian, according to Pentecostal theology, has the potential, as with all the gifts, to prophesy. Sometimes, prophecy can overlap with preaching "where great unpremeditated truth or application is provided by the Spirit, or where special revelation is given beforehand in prayer and is empowered in the delivery". [153] a b "Max Weber and Pentecostals in Latin America: The Protestant Ethic, Social Capital and Spiritual Capital Ethic, Social Capital and Spiritual Capital". Georgia State University. 9 May 2016. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021 . Retrieved 28 October 2022. The spread of Pentecostal Christianity may be the fastest growing movement in the history of religion (Berger 2009).According to various scholars and sources, Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing religious movement in the world; [191] [192] [193] [194] [195] this growth is primarily due to religious conversion to Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. [196] [197] According to Pulitzer Center 35,000 people become Pentecostal or " Born again" every day. [198] According to scholar Keith Smith of Georgia State University "many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history", [199] and according to scholar Peter L. Berger of Boston University "the spread of Pentecostal Christianity may be the fastest growing movement in the history of religion". [199] A Pentecostal church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Rather than a mere religious shift from folk Catholicism to Pentecostalism, Peasant Pentecostals have dealt with agency to employ many of their cultural resources to respond development projects in a modernization framework [232] [233] [234] George Jeffreys (1889–1962) – Founder of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance and the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship (UK)

Water baptism: Symbolic of dying to the world and living in Christ, water baptism is an outward symbolic expression of that which has already been accomplished by the Holy Spirit, namely baptism into the body of Christ. [107] According to a denomination census in 2022, the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, has 367,398 churches and 53,700,000 members worldwide. [215] The other major international Pentecostal denominations are the Apostolic Church with 15,000,000 members, [216] the Church of God (Cleveland) with 36,000 churches and 7,000,000 members, [217] The Foursquare Church with 67,500 churches and 8,800,000 members. [218] See, for instance, Thomas A. Fudge: Christianity Without the Cross: A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism. Universal Publishers, 2003.Ambrose Jessup ("AJ") Tomlinson (1865–1943) leader of "Church of God" movement from 1903 until 1923, and of a minority grouping (now called Church of God of Prophecy) from 1923 until his death in 1943 Like other Christian churches, Pentecostals believe that certain rituals or ceremonies were instituted as a pattern and command by Jesus in the New Testament. Pentecostals commonly call these ceremonies ordinances. Many Christians call these sacraments, but this term is not generally used by Pentecostals and certain other Protestants as they do not see ordinances as imparting grace. [185] Instead the term sacerdotal ordinance is used to denote the distinctive belief that grace is received directly from God by the congregant with the officiant serving only to facilitate rather than acting as a conduit or vicar.