The more charismatic the pastor, the more likely his or her church will practice a wide range of the gifts. (religion-online.org)
Congregational polity has allowed charismatic pastors the freedom to foster expressively charismatic churches in sometimes innovative ways. (religion-online.org)
As sociologist of religion Hilario Wynarzcyk explains, the sociological profile of these churches includes leadership by charismatic pastors and a system of practices that stresses divine healing, personal prosperity, spiritual warfare, ecstatic trances accompanied by speaking in tongues, laughing and fainting and liberation from evil spirits. (religion-online.org)