Pentecostalism is not what I think of when I think of faith in the power of the Holy Spirit and of the gifts that the Holy Spirit gives to Christians within the Church, dividing severally as He wills.
Pentecostalism in the dictionary of common usage is a form of Christianity that relies on overwraught emotionalism and the manipulation of that emotionalism.
Shoot at me if you like, Quix, but there is a distinction between the power of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost and that branch of Christianity known as pentecostalism. They aren’t the same.
I’d rather you remain in good health while such silly notions of yours bite the dust wholesale.
The best Pentecostal/Charismatic churches I’ve been a part of and/or aware of have been indistinguishable from Acts 2.
imho, Your biases are a poor foundation for or description of truth.
It is also a brazenly erroneous notion that Non-Pentecostal groups AVOID emotional manipulations; ritual manipulations; group-think manipulations; !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! OF MAN manipulations; bias manipulations; pseudo-tidy-box manipulations etc.
EVERY congregation I’ve ever visited or observed up close—including Pentecostal, Lutheran, So Bap, Episcopal etc. demonstrated some such emotional and other manipulations to some greater or lesser degree. Some were outragrously worse than the worst of Pentecostalism.
It’s just that the labels, white wash and models of such are different.