| Summary: | Pentecostal churches are growing significantly across the world, but occasionally
theological tensions arise within Pentecostal churches, sometimes related to intergenerational
differences, which hinder both quantitative and qualitative growth. This study
analyses the dynamics of a particular generation gap in one South African Pentecostal
congregation. It explores the initiatives of a cell group from the younger generation,
aimed at enhancing the credibility and effectiveness of the congregation's witness.
The cell group initiatives highlighted issues of leadership, biblical hermeneutics, and
the need for a theological re-assessment of local traditions that had always acted as
identity markers for the older generation. This study contends that the conflict between
a more collectivist older generation and a more individualist younger generation can be
bridged through well prepared conflict resolution processes led by credible intervention
teams and through some form of accommodation of the views and desires of both
generations. === Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology === D.Th. (Missiology)
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