Because of the movement’s rapid growth, many Pentecostals globally lack access to the ancient context, but most Pentecostal scholars, like most other scholars, use it when it is available to them. Various features characterize specifically pentecostal readings. We will list them briefly and then consider them in more detail. First of all, global pentecostal reading is a continuationist reading: pentecostals ideally shape their expectations of God’s activity