More than 20,000 Celebrate Pentecostalism’s 100th Birthday
RNS’s Sarah Price Brown reports on the 100th birthday of the Pentecostal movement, in this week’s full-text article, linked above.
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Pentecostals believe that the Holy Spirit resides within them and manifests itself, in some cases, by allowing worshippers to speak in tongues. “Tongues” is a spiritual language that to the uninitiated may sound like gibberish but to believers is a sign that a Christian has been baptized in the Holy Spirit.