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Definition of Pentecostal in English: Pentecostaladjectivepɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)l 2Relating to or denoting any of a number of Christian movements emphasizing baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by ‘speaking in tongues’, prophecy, healing, and exorcism. Example sentencesExamples - While much of what they do indicates a shallow, extra-biblical emphasis, genuine conversions are occurring in some Pentecostal churches, and there is some evidence of spiritual growth and zeal for evangelism.
- As a result, a generation of young people has spent the past ten years looking for alternatives to the Presbyterian church, and many have ended up in Pentecostal churches.
- Among Protestant denominations, Pentecostal and fundamentalist sects - called evangelical churches - have had the largest growth.
- Global flows of religious belief and practice are filtered and shaped by local conditions: Pentecostal Christianity takes on local color.
- Its avowed aim was to introduce the Pentecostal experience to other Christian denominations.
- And the number is growing, thanks to prophetic Pentecostal movements and the like.
- A devout Pentecostal Christian, he was determined to make the beverage in such a way as to contain less than 1% alcohol.
- As an evangelical and Pentecostal Christian, he listens carefully to the critical voices from his own camp, while continually pushing its boundaries toward a more ecumenically open stance.
- In Fort Worth, Texas, for example, a church integrates traditional Gypsy faith with Christian Pentecostal ritual.
- Because hearing the voice of God is considered normative within the Pentecostal tradition, hearing a voice external to one's self is not necessarily a manifestation of mental illness with Pentecostal Christians.
- Arminian Baptists, Brethren and Pentecostal churches have preached the gospel of Christ within their own limited understanding.
- No one is suggesting that Catholics stop referring to the Anglican, Lutheran and Pentecostal churches.
- Those who represent the Pentecostal movement say that missionaries function as apostles.
- She was a young Pentecostal Christian from the Ukraine who had been brought to America as a child in the 1980s to escape Communist oppression.
- I am a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic who has had the good fortune to spend many Sundays in Baptist and Pentecostal churches.
- Because I became a Christian in a Pentecostal church, I still have a lot of affection, respect and genuine sympathy for Pentecostals and Charismatics.
- The effort is notable in seeking out evangelical and Pentecostal churches that have not traditionally been a part of Faith and Order discussions, along with Roman Catholics, Orthodox and mainline Protestants.
- I started going to Sunday school in a Pentecostal church in my hometown.
- My mother is a very religious Pentecostal Christian.
- But eight months later, social workers found a foster family for them - Pentecostal Christians who raised them with abundant love and gave them confidence, joie de vivre and the urge to give back.
nounpɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)l A member of a Pentecostal movement. Example sentencesExamples - Today, almost 525 million people around the world identify themselves as Pentecostals or charismatics.
- Nevertheless, Pentecostals share with evangelicals a conservative approach to marriage and gender relations.
- Among Protestants, it's evangelicals, Pentecostals and other theological conservatives who account for nearly half the total.
- Within Protestantism, numerical growth and spiritual dynamism seem to have migrated to evangelicals, Pentecostals and charismatics, especially in non-Western countries.
- The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.
- As it happens, it is a fairly hopeful report on discussions between Catholics, evangelicals, Pentecostals, and others in Latin America.
- Members of fundamentalist churches, Mormons, and Pentecostals commonly exhibit a stronger missionary thrust than Catholics.
- This approach is shared by many Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
- My father is the minister at Church of God for Pentecostals.
- When Pentecostals joined the Evangelicals in America, they were willing to give up the role of women in ministry and the role of women preaching, and I think in many instances in Australia, that's only just starting to be re-thought about.
- I don't hold up my experience as typical - and I am glad to have discovered over the years that it is by and large not typical of Pentecostals and Pentecostal churches.
- Center stage is now occupied by Pentecostals, charismatics, evangelicals, fundamentalists, conservative Baptists and Lutherans, and select Roman Catholic writers and movements.
- However, there are increasing numbers of independent church members, including Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists.
- And really, the Pentecostals and the evangelical Protestants in South America are making tremendously powerful, huge inroads into Catholic populations in cities.
- Small religious groups of Evangelicals and Pentecostals grew while the dominant churches dramatically shrank in the first half of the 20th Century.
- Of course, this may reflect the relative paucity of written prayer among ‘lower church’ evangelicals and Pentecostals.
- In Latin America, we see some decline because of inroads by Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
- At the same time, his work has been hampered by weak financial support from the state, while Protestants, especially Pentecostals, have moved with great vigor, setting up local-language congregations across the region.
- But evangelicals and Pentecostals should, it is urged, give up their separatist ways.
- Here, evangelicals are at one with Pentecostals in their rejection of ecclesial institutionalism, hierarchicalism, and traditionalism.
Derivatives noun ˌpɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)lɪz(ə)mˌpɛn(t)əˈkɔst(ə)lˌɪzəm To begin with, at one level, it is arguable that both evangelicalism and Pentecostalism have origins in North America during the first half of the twentieth century. Example sentencesExamples - The plurality of roots feeding both Pentecostalism and evangelicalism explains, at least in part, the diversity of both movements today.
- Here, again, comparisons and contrasts between Pentecostalism and evangelicalism are evident.
adjective ˌpɛntɪˈkɒst(ə)lɪstˌpɛn(t)əˈkɔst(ə)ləst Relating to a Pentecostal movement. a Pentecostalist preacher
Definition of Pentecostal in US English: Pentecostaladjective 2Relating to or denoting any of a number of Christian movements and individuals emphasizing baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and exorcism. Example sentencesExamples - Arminian Baptists, Brethren and Pentecostal churches have preached the gospel of Christ within their own limited understanding.
- Global flows of religious belief and practice are filtered and shaped by local conditions: Pentecostal Christianity takes on local color.
- But eight months later, social workers found a foster family for them - Pentecostal Christians who raised them with abundant love and gave them confidence, joie de vivre and the urge to give back.
- Its avowed aim was to introduce the Pentecostal experience to other Christian denominations.
- Because I became a Christian in a Pentecostal church, I still have a lot of affection, respect and genuine sympathy for Pentecostals and Charismatics.
- In Fort Worth, Texas, for example, a church integrates traditional Gypsy faith with Christian Pentecostal ritual.
- Among Protestant denominations, Pentecostal and fundamentalist sects - called evangelical churches - have had the largest growth.
- As a result, a generation of young people has spent the past ten years looking for alternatives to the Presbyterian church, and many have ended up in Pentecostal churches.
- I started going to Sunday school in a Pentecostal church in my hometown.
- A devout Pentecostal Christian, he was determined to make the beverage in such a way as to contain less than 1% alcohol.
- My mother is a very religious Pentecostal Christian.
- As an evangelical and Pentecostal Christian, he listens carefully to the critical voices from his own camp, while continually pushing its boundaries toward a more ecumenically open stance.
- I am a lifelong practicing Roman Catholic who has had the good fortune to spend many Sundays in Baptist and Pentecostal churches.
- The effort is notable in seeking out evangelical and Pentecostal churches that have not traditionally been a part of Faith and Order discussions, along with Roman Catholics, Orthodox and mainline Protestants.
- Those who represent the Pentecostal movement say that missionaries function as apostles.
- While much of what they do indicates a shallow, extra-biblical emphasis, genuine conversions are occurring in some Pentecostal churches, and there is some evidence of spiritual growth and zeal for evangelism.
- Because hearing the voice of God is considered normative within the Pentecostal tradition, hearing a voice external to one's self is not necessarily a manifestation of mental illness with Pentecostal Christians.
- No one is suggesting that Catholics stop referring to the Anglican, Lutheran and Pentecostal churches.
- She was a young Pentecostal Christian from the Ukraine who had been brought to America as a child in the 1980s to escape Communist oppression.
- And the number is growing, thanks to prophetic Pentecostal movements and the like.
noun A member of a Pentecostal movement. Example sentencesExamples - And really, the Pentecostals and the evangelical Protestants in South America are making tremendously powerful, huge inroads into Catholic populations in cities.
- Here, evangelicals are at one with Pentecostals in their rejection of ecclesial institutionalism, hierarchicalism, and traditionalism.
- As it happens, it is a fairly hopeful report on discussions between Catholics, evangelicals, Pentecostals, and others in Latin America.
- Members of fundamentalist churches, Mormons, and Pentecostals commonly exhibit a stronger missionary thrust than Catholics.
- At the same time, his work has been hampered by weak financial support from the state, while Protestants, especially Pentecostals, have moved with great vigor, setting up local-language congregations across the region.
- Of course, this may reflect the relative paucity of written prayer among ‘lower church’ evangelicals and Pentecostals.
- The whole fire and brimstone preaching I have herd is mainly with Baptists, Pentecostals, First Church of Latter-Day Saints and Jehovah's Witnesses.
- In Latin America, we see some decline because of inroads by Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
- When Pentecostals joined the Evangelicals in America, they were willing to give up the role of women in ministry and the role of women preaching, and I think in many instances in Australia, that's only just starting to be re-thought about.
- This approach is shared by many Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
- I don't hold up my experience as typical - and I am glad to have discovered over the years that it is by and large not typical of Pentecostals and Pentecostal churches.
- Center stage is now occupied by Pentecostals, charismatics, evangelicals, fundamentalists, conservative Baptists and Lutherans, and select Roman Catholic writers and movements.
- Within Protestantism, numerical growth and spiritual dynamism seem to have migrated to evangelicals, Pentecostals and charismatics, especially in non-Western countries.
- Today, almost 525 million people around the world identify themselves as Pentecostals or charismatics.
- Small religious groups of Evangelicals and Pentecostals grew while the dominant churches dramatically shrank in the first half of the 20th Century.
- But evangelicals and Pentecostals should, it is urged, give up their separatist ways.
- Nevertheless, Pentecostals share with evangelicals a conservative approach to marriage and gender relations.
- My father is the minister at Church of God for Pentecostals.
- Among Protestants, it's evangelicals, Pentecostals and other theological conservatives who account for nearly half the total.
- However, there are increasing numbers of independent church members, including Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists.
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