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4. My sense of Pentecostalism is that it's light on theology but heavy on experience.
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 10:47 PM
Apr 2013

I suspect that's true in Latin America as well.

It's almost as if the theology does not matter if you're filled with the Spirit.

Demographics and attendance aside, the only direct influence I've seen on the Catholic Church was its charismatic movement, but even that seems to have ebbed considerably.

I'm less sure about the older Protestant Churches but it seems that nondenominational and so-called Bible Churches with a Pentecostal flair have grown almost in direct proportion to the Protestant decline. I can't say I've seen a direct charismatic or pentecostal surge inside those older churches but, as I said, I'm less familiar with them.

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