About Asia Pentecostal Summit

Statements of Affirmation
Session 1 - Frank Macchia
Justified in the Spirit: A Pentecostal Reflection

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to recover a theology of justification that is not only forensic in nature, but participatory as we are justified in the Spirit by faith, uniting with Christ and are now incorporated into the communion life of the Triune God.

Session 2 - Bill Dogterom
Living From the Inside Out: The Necessity of Holistic Spiritual Formation For Mission in a Driven Culture

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to prioritise the cultivation of the inner life amid a driven and busy culture, embracing spiritual practices that enable us to partner with the Holy Spirit, so that we may be transformed into the image of Christ for the sake of others.

Session 3 - Melissa Archer
‘Come out of her, my people’: Ethics of vs. Ethics in Babylon

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to be the Church that is grounded in our identity as the Bride of Christ while living in Babylon, and to live a discerning ethical life that testifies of Christ through our witness and worship.

Session 4 - Byron Klaus
The New Apostolic Reformation: Understanding Its Origins and Critiquing Its Influence on Global Pentecostalism

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to uphold apostolic ministry marked by the manifestation of the Spirit’s power, grounded in Christ’s cruciform and holy love, embodied in a Spirit-filled community of mutual submission, and bearing witness to Christ not through conquest but through the cross.

Session 5 - Wolfgang Vondey
The Anointing of the Prophet: An Aesthetic Reading of Prophetic Behaviour

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to remain open to the prophetic work of the Holy Spirit, yet recognising that authentic prophetic ministry is not discerned by outward behaviour alone, but by the character of the prophet and prophetic acts that bring life and glorify God.

Session 6 - Candy Gunther Brown
Harmful Spirits: From Fear to Freedom

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to strengthen the deliverance ministry in our churches, integrating spiritual with psychological care, while ensuring that deliverance is practiced with love, dignity, and respect for every person.

Session 7 - Kenneth Archer
Blessed Assurance: A Pentecostal Theology of Grace

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to recognise a Wesleyan-influenced Pentecostal spirituality as a grace-filled, lifelong journey with God and others. We affirm that grace is not merely divine favour, but the active, transformative presence of the Holy Spirit working within believers and the Christian community.

Session 8 - Bill Oliverio
Theological Sources for a Pentecostal Christian Humanist Movement

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to embody a Pentecostal Christian humanism, marked by our Spirit-baptised love, pursuit of human flourishing, and intellectual seriousness.

Session 9 - Amos Yong
The Great/Higher Learning of and in the Spirit: A West-(South)East Asian Conversation after Pentecost

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to embark on a pneumatological and Pentecost-imagined East-West theological dialogue and formational education. We seek to mediate, deepen, and extend the foregoing dialogue for the sake of theological formation in Asia and around the world. 

Session 10 - Jonathan Black
Jesus, Not Just His Blessings: A Pentecostal Theology of Encounter With Christ at His Table

We Asian Pentecostals resolve a recover a balanced understanding of Holy Communion, not reducing it to merely a symbol or something magical; instead, we break bread at the Lord’s Table to encounter Christ Himself, as the One in whom all blessing is found.

Session 11 - Roger Heuser
Silence and Solitude in Pentecostal Spirituality: Exploring the Inner Life in Contemporary Context

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to embrace the spiritual disciplines of silence, solitude, and contemplative prayer, through which we are drawn into the divine communion of love and formed in ever-deepening union with the Triune God by the Spirit.

Session 12 - Joy Qualls & Wayne Choong
Liminal Prophets: Toward a Theology of Youth After Pentecost

We as Asian Pentecostals resolve to move beyond viewing young people as problems to be solved or instruments for growth, receiving them instead as full participants in the prophethood of all believers whose prophetic presence and witness summon the Church into becoming a living, listening, and ever-renewing movement of the Spirit.

Session 13 - Wolfgang Vondey
The Failure of the Prophet: A Theological Critique of the Prophethood of All Believers

We Asian Pentecostals resolve to recover a biblical image of the prophet rooted in Christ, affirming that true prophethood is found not in the possession of extraordinary gifts but in faithfully serving the body of Christ through our ordinary humanity, for its edification rather than our own exaltation.