Pentecostal Praise and Worship as a Mode of Theology

Abstract

It is Wednesday evening March 12th 2014 and about twenty people are gathered in citam Woodley1 for what is called Power House.2 Before long another hundred have joined this weekly prayer gathering for the church. As with all services in branches affiliated with Christ is the Answer Ministries, it starts with about half an hour of praise and worship. Some songs are sung in Swahili but, apart from that, English is the common language in this urban, middle-class, Pentecostal church situated in Nairobi, Kenya. The worship team leads the congregation in a well-known worship song sung in charismatic churches worldwide: You deserve the glory and the honor Lord, we lift our hands in worship As we lift your Holy name.