Originally the culmination of the OT Feast of Weeks, the church celebrates Pentecost as the anniversary of the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples fifty days after Jesus’ resurrection. Pentecostalism is a movement that began in the early twentieth century that emphasizes a postconversion “baptism in the Holy Spirit” for all believers, with glossolalia (speaking in tongues) as the initial evidence of such baptism (Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling. Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms).
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