ISSUES IN PENTECOSTALISM IN NIGERIA: A REVIEW

Abstract

This paper considered, “Wealth, sharp practice and Pentecostalism in Nigeria: a heavenly race? Since this title is, however, a bit too vast and ambitious for the limited scope and time of the discourse, the paper, therefore, appraised the salient factors involved in “the wealth and sharp practice” in Nigerian Pentecostal churches [African Initiated Churches (AICs)] as the case may be. The issues involved included the churches’ unabashed teaching on money, the flamboyant lives of the new generation of pastors among others. The purpose of the study is to x-ray the effects of sharp practices on church growth. The method of approach included historical and phenomenological methods.