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
Abstract
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
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
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.