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| | Pentecostalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The world's largest Pentecostal denomination, the Assemblies of God, holds to this belief as does the Elim Pentecostal Church, the Apostolic Church, Church of God, the Church of God in Christ, and the Foursquare Church (See Statement of Fundamental Truths of the Assemblies of God). | | | The largest Pentecostal denominations in the United States are the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ, Church of God (Cleveland), Pentecostal Assemblies of the World and the United Pentecostal Church. | | | Pentecostalism is sometimes referred to as the "third force of Christianity." The largest Christian church in the world is the Yoido Full Gospel Church in South Korea, a Pentecostal church. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism
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| | Oral Roberts University - Library |
| | The first Pentecostal churches in the world were produced by the holiness movement prior to 1901 and, after becoming Pentecostal, retained most of their perfectionistic teachings. | | | In time the Assemblies of God church was destined to become the largest Pentecostal denominational church in the world, claiming by 1993 over 2,000,000 members in the U.S. and some 25,000,000 adherents in 150 nations of the world. | | | The final phase was the penetration of Pentecostalism into the mainline Protestant and Catholic churches as "charismatic renewal" movements with the aim of renewing and reviving the historic churches. |
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http://www.oru.edu/university/library/holyspirit/pentorg1.html
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| | ASSESSING THE ROOTS |
| | Like Fundamentalists, Pentecostals built their faith on doctrinal certitude and religious zeal. | | | Pentecostals, he says, believe that a person who has been baptized in the Holy Spirit will manifest one or more of the nine spiritual gifts described in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. | | | Pentecostals often speak of a four-square gospel, using these doctrines to identify themselves. |
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http://are.as.wvu.edu/pentroot.htm
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| | Worldandnation: Fiery Pentecostal spirit spreads into mainstream Christianity |
| | Some are independent, others belong to denominations like the United Pentecostal Church International, Church of God in Christ, the Foursquare Gospel Church, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World or the Assemblies of God. | | | Pentecostal and charismatic churches speckle the country today. | | | Not quite a century old, Pentecostals outnumber Buddhists and Jews. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/09/Worldandnation/Fiery_Pentecostal_spi.shtml
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| | The Spirit Bade Me Go, article by Margaret Paloma |
| | Pentecostal theologian Frank Macchia (1999:16) has described Pentecostalism as "a paradigm shift from an exclusive focus on holiness to an outward thrust that involved a dynamic filling and empowering for global witness." The "sign" of such empowerment was speaking in other tongues or glossolalia. | | | According to the Pentecostal world-view, the Word of the Scriptures and the Spirit of the living God are in diological relationship, playing incessantly within and among individuals as well as within the larger world. | | | For Pentecostals the Bible is a living book in which the Holy Spirit is always active. |
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http://hirr.hartsem.edu/research/research_pentecostalism_palomaart1.html
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| | Pentecostalism |
| | Pentecostals teach that the written Word of God without a direct operation of the Holy Spirit is powerless. | | | The Bible teaches that the promise of Holy Spirit baptism was fulfilled on Pentecost and at the household of Cornelius. | | | Pentecostalism causes one to be filled with spiritual arrogance. |
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http://www.churches-of-christ.net/tracts/job082u.htm
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| | Pentecostalism - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research |
| | Pentecostals in America are generally conservative evangelical in their beliefs (see fundamentalism), but no unified stance on matters of doctrine and polity exists among adherents. | | | A third type of Pentecostalism consists of independent schismatic offshoots of the mission churches and wholly indigenous sects which adopt or tolerate beliefs and practices such as ancestor worship and polygamy. | | | The name derives from Pentecost, the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks, which falls on the fiftieth day after Passover. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1E1:Pentcstl/Pentecostalism.html?refid=ip_hf
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| | Rapture and Renewal in Latin America |
| | Pentecostals are generally credited with providing a sense of community to the masses migrating from the countryside to the cities and with preaching a message that concentrates on the power of God not only to comfort spiritually but also to help materially. | | | Undeniably, several Pentecostal churches and leaders, offering a positive and integrated view of faith and the world, have had an impact felt in all areas of life. | | | The Pentecostal acceptance of women in leadership, in some cases even at the pastoral level (typically two-thirds of the congregations are women), adds to its popularity. |
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http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9706/articles/moreno.html
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| | Pentecostal.lect |
| | Pentecost is also traditionally recognized as the date of the founding of the institutional church. | | | Pentecost is Feast of Weeks in Old Testament | | | For Christians of the early church, Pentecost commemorates the day the Holy Spirit decended in fulfillment of the promise of Jesus [Acts 2: 1-4] |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/lectures/Pentecost.html
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| | Try the Spirits - A Reformed Look at Pentecostalism - Part II |
| | Pentecostalism replaces the Word of God in the Church and in the life of the member of the Church with experience, i.e., human feeling. | | | Pentecostalism teaches that the child of God must go beyond Christ to the higher level of the Spirit, must advance beyond 'merely' receiving Christ by faith to receiving the Spirit by the Holy Spirit baptism. | | | It is not surprising, then, that Pentecostalism practically ignores the one fundamental blessing of salvation for the child of God, the blessing received through faith: the forgiveness of sins. |
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http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/etc/printer-friendly.asp?ID=140
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| | The Pentecostalism Controversy |
| | Pentecostalism is not a mere movement; it is, as the ending "ism" indicates, an ideology. | | | At no Pentecostal service either in the Assemblies of God or in the Oneness Pentecostal Churches or in the other sects have I seen anyone lay hands on anyone else for the communication of the Holy Spirit.... | | | However, even proponents of this "new Pentecost" in the Church have admitted that such charismatic groups "all over the country (are) beginning to form almost a superstructure within the Church" (M. Elaine Dilhunt in Liquorian, February 1980). |
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http://credo.stormloader.com/Doctrine/pentecon.htm
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| | Pentecostalism-Not Scriptural |
| | The Feast of Pentecost typified the coming of the Holy Spirit. | | | Note carefully, it was not the disciples' readiness that caused the Holy Spirit to come on the Day of Pentecost, but that God's Time had arrived for the Holy Spirit to come. | | | Pentecost was the earthly birthday of the Holy Spirit, just as the birthday of Christ was His earthly birthday. |
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http://www.fundamentalbiblechurch.org/Foundation/fbcpente.htm
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| | Origins of Pentecostalism in Latvia by Valdis Teraudkalns |
| | Grazhdan, who has researched Pentecostalism of the Soviet era, states that Vilhelm Ebel was the first person who brought the Pentecostal message to the Russian empire and the first Pentecostal denomination established in this part of the world was the Church of God. | | | The First Union opposed Pentecostalism, but congregations of the Second Union with their emotional style of worship and revivalist recruitment techniques were quite open to glossolalia and Pentecostal teachings in general. | | | Confusion was surely generated by the fact that the name "Church of God" is used by many groups, including Pentecostal denominations. |
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http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/cyberj6/latvia.html
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| | CHRISTIANITY: THE PENTECOSTAL FAMILY |
| | The United Pentecostal Church and the Pentecostal Assemblies of The World are the main Oneness Pentecostal denominations. | | | Pentecostalism is a highly fragmented family within Christianity; one source lists 177 separate denominations. | | | But increasing friction motivated the Pentecostals to form their first denomination, the Church of God in Christ. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_pent.htm
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| | The Watchman Expositor: Oneness Pentecostalism Profile |
| | Groups: United Pentecostal Church International, Apostolic World Christian Federation, Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ, Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. | | | Oneness Pentecostals are correct in pointing out that the God of the Bible is monotheistic. | | | Nonetheless, because the Bible also teaches that there is a Person called God the Father, a Person called God the Son, and a Person called God the Holy Spirit, it is clear that the Bible teaches that within the nature of the one God there exist three separate and distinct Persons. |
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http://www.watchman.org/profile/onenesspro.htm
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| | Pentecostalism |
| | They include the Pentecostal Church of God, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (founded in 1927 by Aimee Semple McPherson), and the Open Bible Standard Church. | | | This first wave of Holiness - Pentecostal groups included the Pentecostal Holiness Church, the Church of God in Christ, the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), the Apostolic Faith (Portland, Oregon), the United Holy Church. | | | Pentecostalism, a worldwide Protestant movement that originated in the 19th century United States, takes its name from the Christian feast of Pentecost, which celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/pentecos.htm
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| | Pentecostalism |
| | Pentecostal churches trace their origin to the revival movement in the Negro Holiness Church in Los Angeles in 1906. | | | The father of the Assemblies of God, the largest of the Pentecostal denominations, was Charles Parham. | | | In the first half of the twentieth century Pentecostalism was also marked by the teaching that the Celts were the lost tribes of Israel. |
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http://www.biblefacts.org/history/pente.html
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| | Pentecostalism: Spirit-Filled Blessing...or Dangerous Heresy? |
| | Pentecost was the fulfillment of John's promise concerning Christ, and of Christ's own promise in Acts 1:5 (as well as in John 14-16). | | | Pentecostals teach of course, as we do, that all believers have the Holy Spirit. | | | And the life Pentecostals live is marked by the seeking of and the striving for that "more" of the holy Spirit. |
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http://www.prca.org/current/Articles/Pentecostalism4.htm
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| | Oneness Pentecostalism and the Trinity |
| | Unlike Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, Oneness Pentecostals teach both that there is one God and that Jesus is fully God. | | | Central to the theology of Oneness Pentecostalism is an emphasis on the name "Jesus" as the name of God since the Incarnation. | | | Because almost all Oneness groups hold to the Pentecostal doctrine that receiving the Holy Spirit is evidenced initially by speaking in tongues, these groups are generally called "Oneness Pentecostals." Oneness believers usually reject the nick-name "Jesus Only," feeling that it implies a rejection of belief in the Father. |
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http://www.gospeloutreach.net/optrin.html
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| | Pentecostalism |
| | If Pentecostalism is preaching the true Gospel and teaching true Bible doctrine and seeing growth, we can praise the Lord. | | | It's after Pentecost that they began to preach the word boldly in every place they could, and it's after Pentecost that they had the wherewithal to stand for Christ even as they became martyrs. | | | Many people receieved the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues, and hundreds of new churches began to emerge as the pentecostals were no longer welcome in their former churches. |
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| | Technorati Tag: Pentecostalism |
| | A Pentecostal Mind is a Terrible Thing to Was... | | | 7 Prayers for Pentecosalism Grant McClung is a leading Pentecostal missiologist. | | | i posted a few days ago about the christian century doing a cover article on pentecostalism. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/Pentecostalism
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| | Pentecostals: A Passionate Voice and a Moral Vision - Newsweek Society - MSNBC.com |
| | Last year, he was re-elected as presiding bishop of the Memphis-based Church of God in Christ (COGIC, of which Temple of Deliverance is a part), the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States and a growing international force, with churches in 54 countries, from Jamaica to Japan. | | | Another of the church's draws: the exuberant Pentecostal worship style. | | | With song and Scripture, this pastor leads his fast- growing congregation to an ecstatic experience of God. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9024944/site/newsweek
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| | Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Pensacola Outpouring, Pentecostalism, Post-Modernism, Etc. |
| | Persons, churches, movements, etc., affirming the belief that speaking in tongues is the primary or exclusive initial evidence of the spiritual blessing known as the baptism in the Holy Spirit; or, those in historical continuity with and general agreement with the twentieth-century movement characterized by this initial-evidence doctrine. | | | These persons, churches, and movements are generally part of institutions and denominations that originated out of the original Pentecostal movement in the early 1900s. | | | Definition from: "A Biblical Guide To Orthodoxy And Heresy Part One: The Case For Doctrinal Discernment" (an article from the Christian Research Journal, Summer 1990, page 28) by Robert M. Bowman. |
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http://www.apologeticsindex.org/p00.html
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| | Harvard Gazette: African-American Pentecostalism can renew nation, says Emory's Robert Franklin |
| | And he added that black Pentecostals have "projected a bold Christian witness into all the world" at a time when mission work in other denominations was "falling into disrepair." | | | Among the contributions of the African-American Pentecostal movement Franklin mentioned was its historical influence in "re-Africanizing Black Christianity," thereby challenging conventional mainline black churches to assert their distinctive African identities. | | | '78), asserted that "African-American Pentecostalism has a gift to offer for the renewal of the Christian Church and for the renewal of the nation." Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing movement within Protestant Christianity in the world. |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2005/03.24/31-pent.html
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| | Library - Internet Sites by Subject: Pentecostalism - Vanguard University |
| | A paper written by VUSC's Director of the Graduate Program in Religion. | | | Sanders, Cheryl J. "History of Women in the Pentecostal Movement" | | | The online directory of churches, colleges and universities and district offices affiliated with the AG. |
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http://www.vanguard.edu/library/subjectswww.aspx?doc_id=323
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