I feel bad for the kid and the family. That being said Pentecostal churches are nuts. They create doctrine from inspiration and experience and emotion. Are they “dead” cyhurches? Yes. In their own very special way.
I believe "ALL" churches have done so to a degree. I've seen Baptist churches that could be mistaken as Pentecostal if a person walked in at certain times when The Holy Spirit was working in the service. Things like 80 year old grandmothers getting up and shouting Praise GOD and dancing. The preacher walking across the pews. etc. Oh and prayers by ones who come down to the alter to pray can sound like speaking in tongues.
Ironically, they are also very legalistic.
Instead of *you can’t raise your hands*, it’s *you must raise your hands*.
If you don’t experience Christianity in the way they prescribe, you aren’t really *saved* or *filled with the Holy Spirit*.
It’s a different perspective from the old Baptist mentality. They judge you not based on what you don’t do (don’t drink, smoke, cuss or chew) but based on what you do do, (speak in tongues, fall over and shake, raise your hands is worship).
Same mindset though, one of judging and determining if you’ve *arrived* or not.
I could turn this into yet another C vs P thread by saying, "Don't you mean CATHOLIC?"
When I was growing up, we went to many churches which friends/relatives attended. The Pentecostal ones taugh from the Bble just lke the others. They are no more dead than many others. There is a small church on the street behind me. It may be Presbyterian or Lutheran but no one is ever there when I look out. I go to a SBC and we have to get here very early to find a parking place. Buses are run from our building down the street where some park.