Pentecostal and Baptist?

There are at least 57 different kinds of Baptists and nearly as many kinds of Pentecostals.

Some Baptists are also Pentecostals.

Pentecostals tend to emphasis the Gifts of the Holy Spirit operating today in the church like they did during the time period covered by the Book of Acts.

Baptists tend to not emphasis those gifts.

98% of what Bible Believing Baptists believe is the same as 98% of what Bible Believing Pentecostals believe.

However certain parts of those two groups tend to argue a lot, way too much if you ask me, about the 2% where the disagree, and that is very sad.

95% of Pentecostals are Trinitarian in their beliefs and about 5% are part of what is called the "Jesus only" or "Oneness" movement.

Examples of Pentecostals denominations which believe in the Trinity include:

Assembly of God, Church of God based in Cleveland, Tenn, Foursquare, Calvery Chapel, Vineyard.

Examples who are part of the "Jesus Only" or "Oneness" movement would be UPC or United Pentecostal Church and the Apostolic Christian Church.

The best know Pentecostal in the country is also Baptist, and that is Pat Robertson from the 700 Club.

Other include David Wilkerson and Jack Hayford and me, Pastor Art.

TD Jakes is the best known One-ness guy.

I'm a Pentecostal and most of my Pastor friends are Baptists.

Pastor Art

PS: Dwight Pentecost is not a Pentecostal. He just has that name.

BAPTIST:

Baptist churches do not have a central governing authority. Therefore, beliefs are not totally consistent from one Baptist church to another.

Baptists share so-called "orthodox" Christian beliefs with most other moderate or conservative Christian denominations.

They believe one God (the Trinity), virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, vicarious atoning death, burial, and bodily resurrection of Christ, the need for salvation (though the understanding of means for achieving it may differ at times), grace, the church, the Kingdom of God, last things (Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge everyone in righteousness), evangelism and missions.

PENTECOSTAL:

Pentecostalism is a movement within Evangelical Christianity that places special emphasis on the direct personal experience of God through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, as shown in the Biblical account of the Day of Pentecost.

There are two large streams of Pentecostal churches. The majority believe that one must be saved by believing in Jesus as Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins and to be made acceptable to God.

Pentecostals also typically believe, like most other evangelicals, that the Bible has definitive authority in matters of faith. To this first group, speaking in tongues is the sign of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, but isn't necessary for salvation.

The other group emphasize an "Acts 2:38" based salvation message which says that a person needs to repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, and then receive the Holy Spirit. Receiving the Holy Spirit is necessary for salvation but is not accompanied by speaking in tongues. Of the Acts 2:38 based churches, they fall into four categories of "Jesus Name", "First", "United" or "Oneness"

Pentecostals which baptize in Jesus name only, and those that baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit "Matthew 28:19".

Simple answer: "Pentecostals" believe in the perpetuity of the Spiritual Gifts (tongues, healings, prophecy, etc.). Most Baptists are adamantly NOT believers in these practices.

Pentecostal falls under the charasmatic category, however both have strong fundemental beliefs, actually many Baptist seminaries use books by Dwight Pentecost. but in short...Speaking in tongues.