mission and evangelism, their reading and application of the Bible and their relationships with other believers.21 That which is central to their faith and practice are the concepts of ‘encounter’ and ‘experience’. They aim to know God experientially, whether it is via an intellectual recognition of his being or an emotional appreciation of his character and it is this that often makes them functionally different within the Christian tradition. Kärkkäinen concludes that ‘the essence of Pentecostalism
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