IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICE (IJRCP )

E-ISSN 2579-0501
P-ISSN 2695-219X
VOL. 6 NO. 1 2021

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Biblical and African Wisdom in the Contemporary Nigerian Pentecostal Churches.

Okoh, Blessing U.

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Abstract

The objective of this study is to expose biblical and African Wisdom and to consider the Nigerian perspective of Wisdom in contemporary Pentecostal Churches. In the light of the above, historical and descriptive type of research was adopted in this enterprise. In the finding, it was discovered that biblical and African Wisdom are indispensable tools in the contemporary Nigerian Pentecostal Churches. And it is in operation, to an extent, there is a shift of emphasis from what was obtainable in the Bible times. The wisdom gift from God was intended to profit every member of the body of Christ. But today, the reverse is the case in some of our contemporary Pentecostal Churches.

keywords:

Biblical, African, Wisdom, Cotemporary, Pentecostal, Churches.

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