| Gumbel, like all charismatics, insists that receiving the Holy Spirit is a separate act from conversion. |
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| If we are charismatics, we will say it is by the currently active gift of prophecy exercised in the worshiping congregation. |
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| This, to Horsley, disproves Theissen's hypothesis of wandering charismatics. |
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| Cepeda and his charismatics took advantage of the spiritual vacuum to grow their own movement. |
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| Today, almost 525 million people around the world identify themselves as Pentecostals or charismatics. |
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| According to Theissen Jesus recruited secondary charismatics, both men and women. |
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| It could be that more educated charismatics believe that educated people in general look down upon charismatic practices in churches. |
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| Finally, the charismatics serve as another group that manifests the Pentecostal impulse, but who stay embedded in their home denominations instead of breaking away. |
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| Other Anabaptists have had negative experiences with Pentecostals or charismatics. |
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| However, even the less collectively oriented charismatics agreed that the best way to live their lives was by trying to make a difference in the world. |
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| Every year on the Hill of Encounter in Tionkuy, Burkina Faso, a group of young charismatics spend a year together. |
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| Many Pentecostals and charismatics desire to understand how to be a church that addresses issues of peace and justice. |
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| Within Protestantism, numerical growth and spiritual dynamism seem to have migrated to evangelicals, Pentecostals and charismatics, especially in non-Western countries. |
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| The influence of swashbuckling charismatics is inescapable on the streets of Accra, the capital. |
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| The cynical will note that fundamentalist charismatics do have some sense of self-preservation. |
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| Because of this, the cultural differences between classical Pentecostals and charismatics have lessened over time. |
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| London's immigrant-packed East End is thought to have twice as many Pentecostal congregations as Church of England ones. However, most evangelicals and charismatics are contained within the older religions. |
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| In the Maritimes, charismatics produce the monthly newspaper The Atlantic Charismatic, in existence now for 19 years. |
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| He was fascinated but had very loose relations with the charismatics. |
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| The next generation of Lutheran charismatics cluster around the Alliance of Renewal Churches. |
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| At a time when mainline denominations are engaged in massive closures of small rural churches, independent charismatics are strategically helping to rechurch rural Canada. |
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| It's just that the really obvious charismatics have them in abundance. |
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| Charismatics distrusted Falwell, fundamentalists disliked Robertson, and mainstream evangelicals and Southern Baptists were skeptical of both. |
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