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. 9 NO. 3 2024
DOI: 10.56201/ijrcp.v9.no3.2024.pg77.84

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Changing Trends in African Pentecostal Worship as it Affects genZ (Post-Millennials)

Isaac Folorunso, OLUWALUSIN, PhD

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Abstract

Worship has been used throughout human history to express gratitude to Yahweh. This study investigated the Pentecostal worship as it affect gen Z in Africa. The research adopted a descriptive design method. gen Z is also refers to as iGeneration and generation Y(e). It is the generation of people born between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. iGeneration set apart the normal way of worship and see it as old way of worship. They have no regard for holiness. They believe doing things in their own ways which has led some of them into immoral way of life style of worship even in the church. Biblical method of worship becomes an irrelevant. “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob’ (Ps.24:3-6). There is a great lacuna between the Pentecostal pattern of worship (biblical way of worship) and the gen Z way of worship which this study investigated. The research concluded with some recommendations such as: the text of Christian songs must be biblical both in what it says and in the spirit in which it is said, the spectrum of music which brings glory to God and meaningfully grows His people in Christ-likeness is much broader than any individual’s personal comfort zone, worship should be done with good conscience and holy heart.

keywords:

African Pentecostalism, Changing Trends, genZ, Worship, Yahweh.

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