Reflections On the Pentecostal Contribution To the Mission of the Church in Latin America

93- REFLECTIONS ON THE PENTECOSTAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA Juan Sepúlveda Servicio Evangelico Para el Desarrollo Cassilla 238-correo 3, Santiago, Chile, South America This article arose from a request to prepare a paper on ’The Mission of Pentecostalism’ for a meeting of the Encuentro Pentecostal Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1989. However, once I started to work on the theme, I came to the conclusion that it is not theologically appropriate to speak of ’the Mission of Pentecostalism’, as though this Christian movement had a mission separate and distinct from that of other