The problem has a number of causes, but the main one is the failure in traditioning. The Pentecostal reality has not been communicated in all its fullness to a subsequent generation. When it was explained, it came through as rather impoverished theological constructs. To cite a case in point, the central doctrine called ‘baptism in the Spirit’ is far richer in Pentecostal experience than in Pentecostal explanation. As experience, it is nothing less than the ‘revelation’ of the triune God,13 a ‘theophany’