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Pentecostal Preaching as a Modern Epistle: A Comparison of Pentecostal Preaching with Paul’s Practice of Letter Writing

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This article focuses on the practice of Pentecostal preaching in comparison with Paul’s letter writing. It argues that the adoption and use of technology and modern forms of communication by Pentecostal preachers is in fact in keeping with Paul’s (and the early church’s) adoption and use of their contemporary form of communication: the letter.

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