listic term meaning deliverance in all aspects, including spiritual, material, social, Pentecostal missions, for example, is on the performance of not just spiritual but also physical healing. It is believed that Christ’s work on the cross has brought ing physical sickness (Anderson 231). In this framework, the encounter with and outworking of the Spirit is seen to serve as evidence of the truth of the gospel. It is thus evident that central to Pentecostal theology is the belief that perienced in, affects, and transforms the material and the physical. Without a clear understanding of this intimate relationship, however, we run the risk of Accordingly, we realize that we can only interpret social or psychological explanations as alternative accounts to spiritual explanations if we are able to locate the former as addressing the original nature of the encounter rather than merely accomplish. I will now illustrate, through an examination of the genesis of the cial and psychological explanations to account for the original nature of the The Beginnings of Charismatic Renewal in Singapore The Straits Times have been taking part in religious meetings after school hours have ended up church in Singapore, this was the second of two articles in The Straits Times that students involved, who explained that: There were a number of us at the school who were generally dissat-
lips in praise to God, a number of us broke out into tongues (Sng 288). rences in the Anglo-Chinese School clock tower at Barker Road, have been degenesis of the Charismatic renewal that hit Singapore in the 1970s (Poon; Sng
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