(Friday Church News Notes, July 18, 2025, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – The 6th edition of this book (and Bible course), August 2019, is enlarged and revised throughout and is accompanied by a series of eight multimedia PowerPoint presentations. 

The Pentecostal movement, with its offshoot the charismatic movement, is one of the major building blocks of the end-time, one-world “church.” The author has researched the movement ever since he was saved in 1973. He built a large library on the subject, interviewed Pentecostal leaders, attended conferences with media credentials, and visited prominent churches and sites pertaining to the movement’s history in many parts of the world.

 The book/course deals with the history of Pentecostalism beginning at the turn of the 20th century, the Latter Rain Covenant, major Pentecostal healing evangelists, Manifest Sons of God, the Charismatic movement, the Word-Faith movement, the Roman Catholic Charismatic Renewal, the new Pentecostal prophets, the Third Wave, recent Pentecostal “revivals” such as Toronto, Pensacola, and Lakeland, and prominent Pentecostal and charismatic scandals. There is also a section on the charismatic influence on Contemporary Christian Music. 

The course deals extensively with the theological errors of the Pentecostal-charismatic movements (exalting experience over Scripture, emphasis on the miraculous, the continuation of Messianic and apostolic miracles and sign gifts, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, baptism of fire, tongues speaking, physical healing guaranteed in the atonement, spirit slaying, spirit drunkenness, visions of Jesus, journeys to heaven, women preachers, and the ecumenical doctrine).

 The final section of the book answers the question, “Why are people deluded by Pentecostal-Charismatic error?” The textbook is 487 pages. It is accompanied by eight PowerPoint Presentations featuring 1,400 slides. There are photos taken firsthand at historic locations (such as John Dowie’s Zion City and Frank Sandford’s Shiloh community), Pentecostal-Charismatic conferences attended with media credentials (such as New Orleans ’87 and Indianapolis ’90), and churches we have visited for research purposes. Also included are video clips of Pentecostal-Charismatic experiences such as spirit slaying, holy laughter, and spirit drunkenness. 

We urge every Bible-believing church and home to study this course as a Sunday School series or in some other forum. It is available from www.wayoflife.org.