{"id":173,"date":"2024-04-04T18:18:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thespiritlife\/?p=173"},"modified":"2024-04-05T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T11:06:26","slug":"are-you-pentecostal-charismatic-or-third-wavepart-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thespiritlife\/2024\/04\/are-you-pentecostal-charismatic-or-third-wavepart-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Pentecostal, Charismatic, or Third-Wave?(Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
In my article <\/span>What Is A Pentecostal?<\/span><\/i><\/a> I referred to the different continuationist movements and did a broad-brush stroke of their similarities and differences. I also defined a Pentecostal believer as \u201cany Christian who agrees that the gifts of the Spirit are in operation today.\u201d But what differentiates these three unique movements of the last century?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Initially, all three of these movements, in my opinion, in some way, shape, or form, are rooted in the Pentecostal movement of the early 20th century. When the Pentecostal movement began in April of 1906 (though it could be argued it began earlier), the driving focus of renewed interest in the Holy Spirit was centered around being empowered for Christian living and missional witness. The dominant distinctive characteristics of these early, Spirit-filled believers were speaking in tongues<\/a>, prophecy, healing, exuberant emotional demonstrations, and falling out in the Spirit (sometimes called being slain in the Spirit). While these were normal to the early Pentecostal movement, they were also present in the subsequent movements with perhaps less emphasis on the \u201cexuberant emotional demonstrations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n