The Role Of Music In Washington Gladden's Back To Pentecost

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as music, worship and scheduling of services are changing. Finally, Washington Gladden’s article published by the University of Chicago Press in the Journal The Bible World in the name of the article was Back to Pentecost. He claimed to have several young ministers write to him raising the question about this phrase. They wondered how much virtue or significance is there in this cry. They want to know how desirable is this in the twentieth century. The idea that the Pentecostal church has become more or less ritualistic in their worship service and they are working on making the adjustments to keep excitement in the sanctuary. The change of music has also been altered from twenty years ago and they are more like other secular songs than the

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