Could someone tell me the difference between denomination of an Assembly of God Church and a Pentecostal one?
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Hi!  Pentecostal is a general term whereas Assembly of God is a specific denomination. All Assembly of Gods are Pentecostal in belief but not all Pentecostal believers are Assembly of God.\n\nThere are dozens, probably hundreds of churchs with Pentecostal in their name. One of the largest groups is Pentecostal Holiness Churches....Basically groups of believers hijack general names or beliefs and incorporated them into their specific church names....\n\nThere is a wide variety of practices and beliefs in even the Pentecostal churches, that is, churches that believe in basic Pentecostal doctrines like speaking in tongues, healing ,etc.
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They don't actually call it a church but I've been to the Kingdom Hall .I like it because they stand up there and talk and give helpful information instead of standing there preaching just to hear themselves talk. I am not a witness but one day would love to be one. They just tell the truth.
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Pentecostals believe that Gods power has not passed away on the earth, but is ever present in the time of need. We, I am one, believe in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit which empowers you to live a Christian life and be His witness. Hope this helps, if not email me. God Bless
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You need to add a little detail regarding what you are referring. The church consists of a body of believers. Each has an individual, personal relationship with his/her savior. The Lord commands that we be "one" and we do our best to fulfull that order. Read my study below, maybe it will help clarify things.
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There are not a lot of differences.  The mainstream CoC generally do not allow musical instruments in church worship.  The other big difference is calvinism.  While there are some exceptions, overall the Baptist denomination is Calvinistic.  The CoC is not Calvinistic.  The CoC believes in free will and that God does not choose who goes to heaven or hell.  Calvinism says that God decides who goes and who does not, therefore Christ did not die for everyone but only for the elect (those He chose to go to heaven).  Calvinism does away with free will.  Calvinism also says a person can never lose their salvation once they have it while the CoC believes one can lose it and turn their back on God.
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I don't recall ever hearing anything about environmental stewardship in my church.\n\nMy church is Pentecostal.\n\nDefinitely conservative.
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History.  Methodists are very close to Presbyterians, the main difference being that Methodists believe in "pre-venient grace" which is an impulse of the Holy Spirit driving people towards believing and finding salvation in Christ (as the hymn puts it, "whosever will may come") and Presbyterians believe in the Calvinistic doctrine of election, which means that only those who are predestined to be saved will find salvation.  Both churches practise infant baptism.  Baptists believe that through God's grace all may find salvation and that only when a person comes to a personal belief in Jesus Christ should that person be baptised.\n\nThere is, of course, far more to it than that and there are permutations even within those three main denominations.
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The Anglican Church (more specifically, the high Anglican Church) is very similar to the Catholic church, except the head of the Church is the ruling Monarch of England (Angli - root, Anglo or Anglia, the early word for the tribes of England).\n\nThe United Church is a more loose association of Protestant communities with a looser structure and hierarchy.
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the reasone their is one denomination or another is because most people leave whatever church and start another with a more emphasis on whatever issue they had before.  The message is the same or should be.  God has those that belong to him and he will not lose no one!  Which means they will find their true path in christ.
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That's a good question.  I couldn't find the answer online.  My advice is to either visit another church and ask them or visit a nearby government building (state capitol, city hall...) and ask them.  Somebody should know.
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A denomination is a formal affiliation of a group of churches. In most cases, a denomination is the governing body over a local congregation. \n\nAs long as a group of churches do not fall into that category, they can be as large as they want and are still considered nondenominational.
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The Presbyterian Church is a denomination of Christianity, but is not the same as Baptist. I'm not Presbyterian, but in college I was involved with the Presbyterian Campus Ministries. They seem to be more progressive in terms of current events and church practices. Even though I'm Lutheran, I still felt very comfortable participating in all their worship and events. The only way to know for yourself is to go to a service at a Presbyterian church. The main thing is that they are followers of Christ and believers in the Bible.
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They are too diverse to list their beliefs though they exists within the possibilities that Protestants believe in.  They tend to be very ahistorical (especially the charismatic sects) and that makes it impossible to track exact beliefs from community to community.  \n\nHowever, a good starter would be to check this site and scroll to the Pentecostal section.\n\nhttp://www.creeds.net
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The Pentecostal movement is by far the largest and most important religious movement to originate in the United States. Beginning in 1901 with only a handful of students in a Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, the number of Pentecostals increased steadily throughout the world during the Twentieth Century until by 1993 they had become the largest family of Protestants in the world. With over 200,000,000 members designated as denominational Pentecostals," this group surpassed the Orthodox churches as the second largest denominational family of Christians, surpassed only by the Roman Catholics. In addition to these "Classical denominational Pentecostals," there were over 200,000,000 "Charismatic" Pentecostals in the mainline denominations and independent charismatic churches, both Catholic and Protestant, which placed the number of both Pentecostals and charismatic at well over 420,000,000 persons in 1993. This explosive growth has forced the Christian world to pay increasing attention to the entire movement and to attempt to discover the root causes of this growth. \n\nAlthough the Pentecostal movement had its beginnings in the United States, it owed much of its basic theology to earlier British perfectionist and charismatic movements. At least three of these, the Methodist/Holiness movement, the Catholic Apostolic movement of Edward Irving, and the British Keswick "Higher Life" movement prepared the way for what appeared to be a spontaneous outpouring of the Holy Spirit in America. \n\nPerhaps the most important immediate precursor to Pentecostalism was the Holiness movement which issued from the heart of Methodism at the end of the Nineteenth Century. From John Wesley, the Pentecostals inherited the idea of a subsequent crisis experience variously called "entire sanctification,"" perfect love," "Christian perfection", or "heart purity". It was John Wesley who posited such a possibility in his influential tract, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (1766). It was from Wesley that the Holiness Movement developed the theology of a "second blessing." It was Wesley's colleague, John Fletcher, however, who first called this second blessing a "baptism in the Holy Spirit," an experience which brought spiritual power to the recipient as well as inner cleansing. This was explained in his major work, Checks to Antinominianism (1771). During the Nineteenth Century, thousands of Methodists claimed to receive this experience, although no one at the time saw any connection with this spirituality and speaking in tongues or any of the other charisms. \n\nIn the following century, Edward Irving and his friends in London suggested the possibility of a restoration of the charisms in the modern church. A popular Presbyterian pastor in London, Irving led the first attempt at "charismatic renewal" in his Regents Square Presbyterian Church in 1831. Although tongues and prophecies were experienced in his church, Irving was not successful in his quest for a restoration of New Testament Christianity. In the end, the "Catholic Apostolic Church " which was founded by his followers, attempted to restore the "five-fold ministries" (of Apostles, Prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers) in addition to the charisms. While his movement failed in England, Irving did succeed in pointing to glossolalia as the "standing sign" of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, a major facet in the future theology of the Pentecostals. \n\nAnother predecessor to Pentecostalism was the Keswick "Higher Life" movement which flourished in England after 1875. Led at first by American holiness teachers such as Hannah Whitall Smith and William E. Boardman, the Keswick teachers soon changed the goal and content of the "second blessing" from the Wesleyan emphasis on "heart purity" to that of an "endowment of spiritua
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try assembly of God or maybe vinyard websites i know ,I'm partial,its hard to be unbiased.look in you local paper in the religion section if they have one
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Wesleyan churches are often theologically associated with historical Methodism. This Protestant denomination advances belief in a trinitarian God and sanctification of the believer (holiness). They tend toward Biblical literalism (or at least have a strong reliance upon Scripture), and are somewhat evangelistic in nature.\n\nPerhaps this website will be of some help:\n\nhttp://www.wesleyan.org
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Andrew M is perfectly correct on the history.  There is also now a big difference in church services and in church organisation.\n\nAnglican services are very stylised and formal, and proceed according to scripts laid down in the "Book of Common Prayer".  However, services in Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Congregational, and United Reformed churches are all quite different from that and very similar to each other, with less formality, and with mostly extempore prayers.\n\nThe Anglican church has a pyramidal structure of authority with the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury at the top, and  permanent holders of office at several subsidiary levels.  The other denominations listed above have generally only two levels - ordained ministers, and superiors who are elected from among them for a fixed period and who then return to being ordinary ministers.  This probably counts as a bigger difference than the style of service.