1. Most of these are Pentecostal congregations.

2. Like many Pentecostal preachers he was an accomplished raconteur.

3. The pentecostal faith strictly forbids drunkenness, carousing, and infidelity.

4. As I delved into the history of pentecostalism and began visiting all the pentecostal churches I could, some discoveries surprised me.

5. There is considerable evidence that once women join pentecostal churches they learn skills they can utilize elsewhere.

6. The lightning spread of the pentecostal movement was not like the dispersal of some new idea.

7. He took us to a Pentecostal meeting in one of the city's many black churches.

8. I first witnessed the phenomenon at a huge pentecostal rally I attended as a college freshman.

9. The pentecostal growth is most evident among the poorer communities.

10. Once merely quick, pentecostal growth has now reached the proportions of a tidal wave.

11. Another explained pentecostal growth in terms of urbanization or class conflict.

12. Ever since the very beginning the pentecostal phenomenon has been the subject of conflicting interpretations.

13. The religious press in the first decade of pentecostal history teems with blistering attacks on the new movement.

14. But today, some pentecostal preachers seem so obsessed with the techniques of rapture that they have forgotten the original message.

15. Mum and Dad are staunch Pentecostal church-goers, and will be all their lives.

16. The people who attend Pentecostal churches tend to be from the same population that plays the lottery.

17. Like their Pentecostal sisters and brothers elsewhere, they set off to spread the news.

18. The pentecostal conviction that everyone has the responsibility to spread the word did the rest.

18. try its best to collect and build good sentences.

19. Ten years later, the leader of the pentecostal revival in Los Angeles put it quite another way.

20. Healing, after all, is an integral part of the Pentecostal message everywhere.

21. At that time the statistics were spectacular, even for a Pentecostal televangelist.

22. They speak with other tongues, which is embarrassing and distasteful to many non-members of the Pentecostal scene.

23. I have seen photos of saxophones being played at pentecostal revivals as early as 1910.

24. It would not be the last time that people filled with the pentecostal spirit would be dismissed as inebriated.

25. Before too long, just as there were white bands and colored bands, there were white and colored pentecostal churches.

26. It was certainly the closest thing in our town to what I later learned was pentecostal worship.

27. But Swaggart remains an important figure for anyone who seeks to understand the appeal of the Pentecostal impulse.

28. Faced with a bolted door, Seymour did what thousands of pentecostal preachers have done in similar circumstances ever since.

29. It is an essential element of the primal piety, the archaic spirituality, that pentecostal worship brings to the surface.

30. My friend here has indicated to me that they are members of a pentecostal church and that they come here every year.

31. In fact, it often appeared that the part men play in some pentecostal churches is more shadow than substance.

32. There are many people in classical Pentecostal churches and the renewal movement who are worried about an over-emphasis on exorcisms.

33. It should be said immediately that Robertson does not belong to a Pentecostal church.

34. For many of these postindustrial wanderers, the primal quality of pentecostal worship seemed to fill the bill.

35. But she had lived long enough to found one of the major pentecostal denominations, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

36. Then they both walked into an alley between a small pentecostal church and a rat-eaten shack advertising cheap tires.

37. I was pleased because this is a perfect text for a pentecostal sermon: it predicts the New Jerusalem.

38. No one embodies better than Coltrane that strange kinship between pentecostal incantation and the spiritual lineage of jazz.

39. The recognition that exceptional holiness and spirituality continue to manifest themselves in our own time is also a central pentecostal conviction.

40. When reports began to drift back from pentecostal revivals abroad, the flaming marvels became even more spectacular.

41. The church Hanson founded had a long name with Pentecostal wedged in it somewhere.

42. She could probably join easily in the fervor of a pentecostal service without causing much notice.

43. Although often identified with the rapidly growing fundamentalist, Pentecostal, and Protestant charismatic denominations, the movement is far wider.

44. Ascension, the Holy Spirit in Pentecostal come.

45. Four years ago at Torrente De Cedron Pentecostal Church in Lynn, Mass., the weekly food pantry stayed open for two hours as about 75 families came through for a few days' worth of groceries.

46. He was a member of a Pentecostal Church and a musician himself.

47. In parallel, revivalist and Pentecostal churches have proliferated in many parts of Africa, offering spiritual stability in times of uncertainty.

48. Our Pentecostal friend Janice Sjostrand sang a powerful hymn Mother had heard at my inaugural church service, Holy Ground.

49. Late that month, eight people were arrested for suspected roles in the firebombing of a Pentecostal church in the capital of Kuala Lumpur.

50. There, the fastest growing forms of Christianity are pentecostal, and they are spreading among the poor.

51. Almost two-thirds of this reduction happened in the 1980s and 1990s, when Catholics were apparently drawn away to new Pentecostal churches.

52. Other Christian societies total about 4.5% (the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, the Catholic Church, Pentecostal congregations, the Methodist Church, etc.).

53. Thus, dispensational theology made a lot of sense to both Pentecostal and evangelical believers at this point in history.

54. Protestantism also comprises numerous denominational families (e.g., Baptist, Methodist[/pentecostal.html], and Pentecostal) that fit into one or more of the above traditions.

55. However, there is also a strong Christian revival, especially among the fundamentalist and Pentecostal sects.

56. Instead, in the heart of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, Christians held a Pentecostal revival, complete with faith healing and speaking in tongues.