{"id":300,"date":"2014-02-02T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/pentecostalism-challenges-historical-churches.html"},"modified":"2014-07-26T17:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:03:55","slug":"pentecostalism-challenges-historical-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/02\/pentecostalism-challenges-historical-churches.html","title":{"rendered":"Pentecostalism Challenges Historical Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-TijnIEnbA?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Studying Christianity? \u00a0 Here\u2019 an interesting clip about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionfacts.com\/christianity\/denominations\/pentecostalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pentecostal movement<\/a> and the challenges it poses to traditional Christian churches.<\/p>\n<p>Pentecostals number about 470 million and by 2025, they should grow to almost a quarter-billion. The movement has a strong messianic influence and focuses on <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/pentecostal' target='_blank'>speaking in tongues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Pentecostalism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/christianity\/subdivisions\/pentecostal_1.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">at this excellent BBC religion site<\/a>. And here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/blog\/adiaphora-and-dark-extremes-eccentric-faith\/4727\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">interesting story about Pentecostal snake handlers.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studying Christianity? \u00a0 Here\u2019 an interesting clip about the Pentecostal movement and the challenges it poses to traditional Christian churches. Pentecostals number about 470 million and by 2025, they should grow to almost a quarter-billion. The movement has a strong messianic influence and focuses on speaking in tongues. 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