The Word Pentecostal comes from the Book Of Acts.on the day of Pentecost.
Acts 2:1-4
Coming of the Holy Spirit
2 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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It is a denomination or part of the Christian belief. I don't know the details or dynamics of it, though.
A renewal movement within Christianity that places special emphasis on a direct personal experience of God through the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
Isn't that the 'snakebite sect'? Stomping on chickens and sacrificing virgins?
They kinda look like the crazy ones... I don't mean that you are crazy, just that in the church they act very nutty and it resembles a psyche ward- I've seen both.
It means UGLY jean skirts.
Oh and journeegirl15, DO NOT BLESS ME you have idea who I am.
The extreme crazies that think they're possessed and can talk in an unknown language even though they're just babbling a bunch of random gibberish that anyone can do.
It is a sect of evangelical Christianity that focuses on receiving of the "Holy Spirit". Their services involve loud music, shouting, and glossolalia aka "speaking in tongues". They also believe in faith healing.
Many of those who were "divine healers" and preachers who have left the church admitted that the faith "healings" are really just psychology and the same sort of trickery "psychics" use. Glossolalia has been documented as a form of mass hysteria.
Pentecostals are evangelical Christians who believe in an experience of God's power called the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, an event usually accompanied by speaking in tongues or other supernatural phenomenon.
Pontes gave a much... "cleaner" answer than mine, but mine is still the same. I grew up in a Pentecostal environment. One of the big staples that I can't get out of my head is the "filling of the holy spirit" accompanied by tongues along with alot of crying and running around the church like madmen. They believe pretty much in the same doctrines as the rest of the Christian community though.
