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Being born-again conversion is commonly expressed as a complete change in the convert`s life, which needs to be maintained through practices, such as prayers and fasting, and new codes of conduct, such as righteous living, modest dressing, abstinence (self-denial) from alcohol, and the strict avoidance of sex before marriage. Learning and successfully incorporating biblical narratives into one`s personal narrative is also essential to any successful conversion and for a proper understanding of the `GOOD` in social relation. Through the subsequent control of personal conduct, CoP converts are able to demonstrate the ``CHARACTER OF GOD``
The book argues that Pentecostal transformation as ethical practice involves three interconnected issues: (1) processes of church discipline and regulations aimed at maintaining continuity with a Christian future (2) moments of uncertainty and indeterminacy, which destabilize and question the conventional parameters of what is acceptable in the present (3) acts of philosophical labour and critical reflection whose goals are either to alleviate moral ambiguities or to create innovative positions around which new norms eventually develop
In furthering the argument, the author draws on a combination of epistemological tools stemming from the anthropology of Christianity and the anthropology of ethics. This approach allows the author to reach a renewed understanding of the processes whereby Ghanaian Pentecostals resolve the contradiction within the personal interruptions and interpretations of their own faith regarding what constitutes good or right religious observance, while remaining faithful to their religious identity.
The author suggests that approaching Pentecostal transformation as ethical practice allows for a better understanding of the religious subject’s response to incommensurability of values and practices internal of Pentecostalism.
CoP emphasizes the Four-Square Gospel: HOLINESS, SALVATION IN HEAVEN, THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and deliverance, AND A BELIEF IN JESUS, the soon coming king. While CoP leaders share the belief that witchcraft and ancestral spirits do exist, they area also convinced that once a convert is committed to Jesus Christ and baptized in the Holy Spirit, the traditional past and the spirits of the past no longer have a hold over him or her.
This book treats church values and institutional authority as important frames of social interaction. However, the author sees them as subject to ethical disputes in context involving a variety of issues: how to make a complete break with the past, the inconsistencies of being able to do so, the constancy of Pentecostal practice in different situations, and the rigidness of boundaries between what is acceptable and unacceptable Christian practice.
Two key points the book makes:
First, taking relationships as central to understanding Pentecostal change and continuity has broader, theoretical implications. Indeed, such an approach shifts our focus from the Christian debates on the appropriate role of materiality within a transcendental religion to the ethical question Christian believers ask themselves while seeking to maintain a meaningful balance between religion transformation and continuity.
Second, by bringing the Anthropology of Christianity and the Anthropology of ethics into one analytic framework, this integrated focus allows us to acknowledge the reality that despite church members` attempts to create a universal Christian identity, this new identity is inseparable from the situational, contradictory, and innovative ways in which it is articulated and experienced. The combined approach provides a better understanding of the particular ways through which Christian transformation is contested and challenged, appropriated and adopted, explicitly pronounced and implicitly practised.

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