An Alternative Approach To The Sacraments Among Pentecostal And Charismatic Churches

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

Although Pentecostals typically worship in a free style, they are by nature sacramentalists. They usually view sacramental actions as channels of divine power; however, they refuse to precisely define sacraments. Recently, some Pentecostal churches have adopted liturgies for use in their services and moved to a higher view of the sacraments.

Pentecostals are by nature sacramentalists. Anointing with oil, prayer cloths, laying on of hands, feetwashing, and other symbolic acts have been...

 

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