Pentecostal
Vineyard and the Third Wave
The bridge. Classical Pentecostalism on one side, the territorial and apostolic material on the other, and the power encounter as the idea that carries across.
In its own terms
What this body is doing
Wimber's term was the power encounter, and its content was a deliberate simplification: rather than a second work of grace evidenced by tongues, a demonstration accompanying the preaching of the gospel, available in the ordinary run of a church service. Taught in a seminary classroom as well as in churches, which is how it reached a generation of evangelical leaders who would not have gone near a Pentecostal denomination.
The corpus files it as the junction between two things it already held. The deliverance manuals from 1973 sit on the branch beside it; the territorial and strategic-level material of 1989 onward, and the apostolic governance that would be named the New Apostolic Reformation in 2001, descend through it.
Where it stands in the tree
Descent
Separated from
The charismatic renewal · 1982A movement rather than a quarrel: a network of new churches around the conviction that signs and wonders belong to ordinary evangelism and need not be sought as a separate second blessing.
Bodies that separated from it
- New Apostolic Reformation2001
A name given by an observer to something he also helped organise: networks under living apostles and prophets, replacing denominational government rather than separating from it.
The same questions asked of every body
What it holds
Are the gifts still given?
Not established here. Not an exorcism question, and the one that decides the rest. A body holding the gifts ceased with the apostles has no room for a deliverance ministry; a body holding they continue has no reason to license one.
Who may act?
Described from a text the corpus holdsAny believer, in the ordinary course of a service.
The programme is explicitly that this is not a specialism: everyone gets to play was the movement's own phrase for it.
Power Evangelism · 1986 · in copyright, described never quoted
What counts as evidence?
Described from a text the corpus holdsDiscernment in the moment, exercised by whoever is ministering.
The power encounter is described as something recognised as it happens rather than diagnosed against a list beforehand, which is a different method from the manuals' checklists and a different one again from a closed list of signs.
Power Evangelism · 1986 · in copyright, described never quoted
Where is the spirit?
Not established here. All four inherit gospel scenes in which spirits are in people. What each adds beyond that is the largest difference between them.
Whom do the words address?
Not established here. A formal difference a reader can check by counting clauses rather than by weighing tone.
What restraint is written in?
Not established here. Every one of these traditions knows the practice can harm. What each does about that is what popular accounts leave out.
What closes the matter?
Not established here. Whether the encounter ends, and who declares it, separates a rite from an ongoing practice.
This page records what a body holds and where that is written down. It takes no position on whether any of it is true, and nothing here is instruction — the rites are described by what they contain, never as something to follow.