While a phenomenon encompassing more than 600 million Christians around the world, Pentecostalism is united by four central tenets. First, Pentecostals believe in a postconversion (or postregeneration) experience styled “baptism in (or with) the Holy Spirit” (cf. Acts 2:2–4). Pentecostals maintain that the empowerment of the Holy Spirit must be infused into the life of each Christian. Although this experience could happen on the same day as a person’s conversion,
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