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Originally Posted by deltaguitar
I think that if you realistically polled most UPC churches that those who really speak in tongues are probably less than 50%. However, just the fact that the AOG doesn't teach that you must speak in tongues to be saved has a lot to do with this statistic.
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Delta,
Their own leadership is concerned about this, they realized they are leaning more and more towards mainstream Evangelicism. Read their blogs and websites of their leadership,they see the handwriting on the wall, they will in short time will stop being a Pentecostal Denomination.
Regarding Op's Vinson Synan, the leading Scholar who studies all Pentecostal Denominiations, Movements and Streams currently reports that Oneness Pentecostals have the highest percentage of people who claim the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with the intial evidence doctrine. Upwards of 90%. So there is some credible scholarship and stats for this percentage.