Understanding power struggles in the Pentecostal church government

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Matshobane, Mangaliso Mbangiso
Masango, Maake J.S.

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AOSIS Open Journals

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This article highlights the power struggles that the Pentecostal church experiences in its church governance. These power struggles become very contentious to a point where members take each other to legal courts, which ends in multiple schisms that tarnish the image of the Pentecostal movement. Most literature on church conflicts approach power struggles as caused by personality disorders. This article seeks to highlight a different approach where power struggles are more a result of structural factors than personal ones emanating from a hybrid nature of polity in the Pentecostal church and other structural factors of conflict like finances, education and leadership. Finally, an educational pastoral care methodology is proposed for this article.

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Pentecostal movement, Pentecostal church, Power struggles, Church governance, Government, Church conflicts

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Matshobane, M. & Masango, M.J., 2018, ‘Understanding power struggles in the Pentecostal church government’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 74(1), a4949. https://DOI.org/10.4102/hts.v74i1.4949.