whats the difference between baptist and Pentecostal Christians?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about Baptists, but I can tell you anything you want to know about Pentecostals. I had to go to my parents' Pentecostal church for a good 18 years.

Real Pentecostals don't do snake-handling (the people who do that are even crazier). They do believe in the rapture and in evidence of being saved by speaking in other tongues. Services consist of choir singing, actual preaching (usually hellfire and brimstone sermons), and altar call, sometimes with an individual singing during altar prayer. Prayer generally means a person has their hands raised, crying, and sometimes more speaking in tongues. Worship can often get ecstatic - extremely, to the point of wailing, dancing, jumping, and running in the Spirit. Men and women can sit together, but they go to separate altars to pray. In prayer and when someone is 'seeking the Holy Ghost' (being saved w/ evidence by speaking in tongues) for the first time, others who already have it surround them, lay hands on them, and help them pray for it.

In regular life, I can tell a devout Pentecostal when I see one - especially a woman. It's partially the way they look, but some kind of... I don't know. Something about them. Anyway. Pentecostals have a dress code. With men, it's not so bad. Long trousers, shirts with sleeves at least to the elbow, short hair but not shaved, face clean-shaven. For women, though, it's quite restrictive. Long skirts (at least to knee, but stricter pastors require past the middle of the shin or to the ankle, no slit), shirt sleeves at least to elbow (stricter pastors require to wrists), no jewelry at all, no piercings, no makeup at all, not allowed to cut their hair. Stricter pastors don't allow women to wear their hair with fancy decorations in it, women in the choir usually have to wear their hair up, and while women are 'allowed' to teach Sunday School, they aren't allowed to actually preach services. I've been visiting to churches where women weren't allowed to wear wedding rings or stockings. They stress severe separation from 'worldly things'; they aren't allowed to play sports, go to dances (or dance at all), or watch television. In stricter churches, they aren't allowed to read anything except the Bible or books written for Christians, or play non-Christian games. Children are encouraged to witness (read: proselytise) to other children, but aren't encouraged to become friends with them. Not allowed to drink alcohol or smoke because it pollutes the body, which is God's temple because the Holy Ghost resides in it.

Pentecostals don't believe in the Trinity. They believe that God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost (aka Holy Spirit) are one (explanation: there is God. Jesus was concieved when God allowed his Spirit to overshadow Mary, making her become pregnant with a child, which was filled with that Holy Spirit.).

I'm not going to condemn anything they do. *shrug* I don't believe in it, I very much disagree with many of the things they preach, but I have a sort of pat-them-on-the-head-and-smile soft spot for Pentecostals.

(I mostly got through services because - Pentecostal girls? BEAUTIFUL.)

Answer 2

Difference Between Baptist And Pentecostal

Answer 3

The Pentecostal Christians believe that after salvation through faith in Christ that God has an additional blessing that he gives to Christians. It is an overflowing of the Holy Spirit. They point to such an overflowing on the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 - thus the name Pentecostal. It is often called the "baptism in the Holy Spirit".

They teach that this baptism releases spiritual gifts in a Christians life. They point to 1 Corinthians 12: 4-12 as a list of these supernatural gifts. They usually teach that the first manifestation of this baptism will be "speaking in tongues". This is speaking in a prayer language known to God, but not the speaker. Details of this practice can be seen in 1 Corinthians 14.

Most other churches, including the Baptist, do not teach this second blessing. Rather they believe that all of "fullness" of the Holy Spirit is received at salvation. While there is evidence that at one time supernatural gifts were given to the early Christians, once the Bible was complete, they were no longer needed and came to an end. They point to 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 as their proof. They also argue that "tongues" was not a prayer language, but rather a method God used to allow people to preach in a foreign language so that other could understand them.

Answer 4

Wow... Ok, I've been to a million and one Baptist churches they are the only churches in my town. Everyone who lives here is Baptist. But I claim that I'm Pentecostal, I go out of town to go to church, and I've got to say I think it just depends on what church you go to. Because the people who were saying they know all about Pentecostal are saying things we don't do at my church. Men and women sit together and get this they even pray together. No separation unless they just want to. Yes, we believe in the Holy Spirit. Yes we speak in tongues. No I wouldn't say our worship is as crazy as every one is describing. We have updated music, we have a traveling band (rock band) they preform a lot of Hillsong United songs and Hillsong. NO WE DO NOT HANDLE THE "SNAKE." People who are saying that are just being mean. YES, we DO believe in the rapture. Now, I don't know what these people experienced but it's not what my Pentecostal Church teaches. I have nothing against Baptists. They are great people, I do question some of their actions as I'm sure they do mine. Every one does, we're human. Please stop speaking so negatively about Pentecostals.. Not all Pentecostals are what everyone is describing.

Answer 5

Baptists are usually more into sound doctrine and basing their faith on what the Bible teaches. Not that Pentecostals don't do believe the Bible, but in general a lot of Pentecostals seek for signs and wonders to affirm their faith. Many Pentecostals also deny basic truths about spiritual gifts and claim that unless someone "shows the evidence" of speaking in tongues then they have not received the Holy Spirit.

Answer 6

I have been to a Baptists church for many years , also been baptized 3 x's, I do believe there is one God he has 3 names, The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. So you when you get baptized its just simple I baptize you in* Jesus Name*. !!!!!!!! I have attended a Pentecostal church for the last year now I am visiting a Baptist church besides the worship I see the sermon's as the same.

Answer 7

both stem from the Prostestant church. Pentecostals take the book of Acts in Bible and believe that the same signs and wonders experienced by the apostles (such as speaking in tongues, healing the sick, casting out demons) are gifts to true faithful believers today, which have the power to all these things.
Baptists are not as charismatic, but most baptists do believe in the Rapture, which i dont think Pentecostals do
these are just a few examples of where they differ but the doctrinal differences are not too extreme

Answer 8

Fundamentally, nothing. God loves everyone the same as long as they don't blasheme the Holy Spirit.


A good place to find out about different denominations is wikipedia. What belief seperates Pentecostal Christians from other denominations is the concept of "Oneness" in opposition to the concept of Trinity.

Personally I think it is hard for the Pentecostal Christians to understand that the Holy Spirit is with you 100% percent of the time that you exist. God is with you always. But hey, what do I know. I've never spoke gibberish, but If I did I wouldnt credit God with that abomination. It would either be because of sickness or that I sinned. (My own damned fault... drunk/high/stoned or otherwise disrespecting the God out of me!)

Answer 9

umm im Church Of God In Christ(COGIC) the largest AA Pentecostal Holiness Denomination in the USA and first off i have been to alot of Baptist churches and they r very dry wen it comes to Praise & Worship but the preaching is the same Pentecostals believers do hold on more to the indwelling of God spirit or (being Holy Ghost filled)/ spiritual gifts most Pentecostals believe n the trinity unless ur PAW or Apostolic which is another sect of Pentecostalism un like Baptist we believe in living Holy lives b4 God,,meaning after service u wont find none of us out side smoking a cigg sittin on the church steps which is mainly a Baptist thing seen it time and time again we dont normally have women preachers or Bishops elders etc...thats more of the charismatic Christians other than that we r all trying to reach heaven to keep away from hell jus got different styles of doin it not knocking the Baptist church by all means but its Holiness or Hell thats wat we r taught n the pentecostal church

Answer 10

I will try this question. Pentecostal Christians believe in the second baptism of the Holy Ghost. They also speak in tongues. Baptists say you can't be divorced, and don't consume alcohol, but everything else is OK.

Answer 11

main i think baptists believe all Holy spirit manifestations and miracles etc came to a stop when the bible as we know it now was compiled in book form. I cor 13. 10 for when perfection comes... they believe perfection came when Bible 66 books were set as a book.

pentacostals believe the pentacostal expereience of the upper room is still evident and the last days prophesised by Joel is still in the present. so they beieve and receive baptism of the Holy spirit and speak in tongues and other manifestations of the H/Spirit.