What are Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches?

What do Pentecostal and charismatic mean? What is the difference between Pentecostal and Charismatic? Let’s answer those questions.

[noworries]

Very informative and non biased discussion. God bless you

[scotttaylor]

Excellent job on this video. Very educational

[SKingA]

What you're doing is not easy. Keep up the good work!

[cesartx]

Thank you for the video, I'm from Brazil and I've looked everywhere for a good summarization about this subject.
It's really hard to find an unbiased view when it comes to religion.

[Mark-ybsp]

When you make “speaking in tongues “ your main focus, then you’ve already lost your focus.

[olivianatwick]

First let me say I am a retired Minister I have been a minister for over 30 years. I am currently trying to get back into good health after suffering Guillain-Barre syndrome. I have what I would call spoken in tongues but it was more in a prayer attitude then as part of a service or gathering of people. I tend to believe that if a person in a gathering of people to worship speaks in tongues then as scripture says there should be someone to interpret the tongues. If there is no one to interpret the tongues then those that speak in tongues need to do it in private. I am a charismatic and that I believe in all the gifts of the Spirit and I believe that they should be employed in churches everywhere.

[tomalealso]

Thank you, again well done. if I could add anything then it would be that the main difference between pentecostal and Charismatic is their focus, to a pentecostal the main purpose the receiving of Holy Spirit power to accomplish the mission of the church, (to seek and save the lost) by contrast, charismatic the focus seems to be the experiencing of the gifts, the first is outward focused and the second is inward focused,

[adamfawkes]

I grew up in a pentecostal church. Didn’t know it was a Pentecostal church until I was older. To me, it was just church. I’ve always been sceptical of people who speak in tongues and when people fall on the floor.

[arielview]

Short video for a big subject.
Jesus said, whatsoever you ask, believing, you shall receive. If you believe in your heart, and doubt not, you shall have whatsoever you ask.
Luke 11: 13, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
All who are born again are sealed with the Holy Spirit, being filled with the Holy Spirit, comes to those who ask.

[magicalgirlweeb]

Hello, Joshua.

Are you a Christian? I am studying Christianity at college, as part of religion and philosophy/theology, and your videos are really helping my grades.

God bless
🙏💓❤️🌸😀

[abigailespinosa]

Love ur video ..aslong as we have Jesus in harts it dosent matter wat kind of church we go 2 thay all preach about Jesus it jusy all on how u wanna worship im pentecost but i will go 2 any christan church :) as lond were worship Jesus amen

[bloodboughtbigphilr]

These are good, informative videos and well researched. Fair observations made based on fact and not conjecture. I would be continuationist in my view of the sign gifts but reject charismania and wouldn't consider myself pentecostal/charismatic.

[aronburrell]

Hello Joshua, I'm really enjoying all your videos, and am blessed to have stumbled upon them. I hate to nitpick or correct people but one note that I have is this, about the Calvary Chapel. While they are in both Charismatic evangelical denominations, these churches were not started by Evangelical church members. Chuck Smith the founder of Calvary Chapel was an ordained minister of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel, who felt that the Pentecostal church was out of line in its preaching and practices he left to start his own church based on exegetical preaching, and orderly worship.

[AmericanLiveTalk]

When the Holy Spirit baptises you, you will know the truth. Until then you will have the understanding of man kind.

[heyman]

I think a correction is needed beginning at :30. Concerning methodism and Wesleyan holiness. Methodism did not originate from Wesleyan holiness. It's the other way around. Wesleyan Holiness sprung out of Methodist Episcopal (M.E.) churches especially in the Midwest of America. During the transition out of the Methodist Episcopal Churches in the late 1800's there were actual Methodist churches called "Pentecostal Unions" that were non tongue speaking churches. Some of these never transition to tongue churches but remained within the non tongue speaking aspect of wesleyan-holiness that ultimately became things like Pilgrim Holiness/ Church of the Nazarene etc. The label Pentecostal actually started with Methodist churches and was essentially taken/adopted by tongue speaking groups after 1901. The label "Pentecostal" originated in America before tongues entered the scene.

[Patrick-sbsb]

I think this is a pretty good summary. It's refreshing to hear intelligent conversations about the Pentecostal/Charismatic/Full Gospel churches, doctrines and theologies, without having to listen to the lambasting, lampooning, and degrading meted out by the modern day "heresy hunting" so-called "discernment ministries".

[CastroMKE]

The first few years of my life I went to Pentecostal churches and I never understood people speaking in tongues. I understand it now but my understanding is that it is a perfect prayer from the Holy Spirit within us praying a perfect prayer to God and that it is a gift given along with the Holy Spirit which was given to us when Jesus said it is finished. So everyone can speak in tongues assuming you have the faith to believe you are speaking a perfect prayer to God which nobody can understand or translate as it is a Holy language. My confusion now is, based on scripture, most of the time I see people speaking in tongues would then be wrongly used. Like during prayer for another person, which is one of the most common ways (and during worship which I agree with) when people would speak in tongues.

[Patriot-oimj]

I was baptized at the age of 16 at the first Foursquare church in Van Nuys Ca.(more commonly known as " the church on the way) I always uncomfortable when people spoke in tongues. I don't know why, but that is the way I felt.

[metrx]

I was raised in a very stuffy Calvinist church. I always felt something was missing in my spiritual walk. Six years ago I visited a Pentecostal church and have never looked back. I have no judgement against other churches. We all worship God in our way. Speaking in tongues is a vital part of my spiritual experience. As long as you believe in the tenets of the Nicene Creed, you are my fellow Christian. I once mocked people speaking in tongues. Until it happened to me.

[parkerr]

Good video! However I feel you focus to much on tongues and not the continuations view pentecostals hold