The Future of Holiness and Pentecostal Churches: Bringing Belief in Line with Practice

This article argues that the Holiness and Pentecostal traditions could offer the theological hermeneutics for interpreting Wesleyan traditions and even the theological heritages from Lutheran and Reformed Churches, based on the study of Dr. Donald Dayton. Churches ought to champion their distinctive contributions to Christianity in church history by bringing their beliefs to be in line with their practices. The theological perspectives of the Holiness-Pentecostal traditions are the most varied kinds--the Christocentric Fourfold Gospel (A.B Simpson), the Weselyan Fourfold Gospel, the Four-Square Gospel, the Fivefold Gospel, and the Full Gospel. To theologically analyze the Holiness and Pentecostal traditions, the fourfold gospel could be used as a representation of a better paradigm than those used for the description of the Continental Reformation.