I’m a Pentecostal. Our theology is as much a record of lived-experience as it is inspired writing. Actually, we believe in tongues as initial-evidence based on the experience of the early church more than the teaching of the apostles.
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This doesn’t negate the primacy of the Word, but reveals that God reveals in ways that are experiential and those experiences are realities (so long as they are not in disagreement with His Word) that are as doctrinally formational as the words on the paper.
One way of understanding Pentecostal experience and continuationism is that of Luke-Acts being narrative theology. That Luke isn’t merely recording history but demonstrating the power and authority of Jesus and the work of the Spirit in the Church.
Which is why we must look at the events and experience of the early church to better understand words on the paper. It’s a reason I am more of an egalitarian than a complementarian. I see in the experience of the church women in ministry.
If that was the experience, and it was endorsed by the Apostles, then we must seek to understand the passages that seem to diminish women in ministry in light of the pro-women in ministry evidence in the early church.
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