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Great start Victoria. Try to parcel your description out into sections. Try reading other Wikipedia articles on (X global movement) in (Y country), if you need ideas on how other people might structure them. Also: you are absolutely welcome to use Anderson's introduction to Pentecostalism, but be aware that it has a great number of inaccuracies. The author publicly apologized several times for the many errors in the volume.JMDoran (talk) 20:03, 25 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

The section on Extreme fundamentalist pentecostalism seems like a prolonged discussion/attack on a single church. (I am not related to that church, just an observation). Is an in-depth discussion of a single church in towoomba really that useful on a page dedicated to Pentacostalism in Australia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.194.113 (talk) 23:10, 2 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

@59.167.194.113 I agree. I assume it was written by a disgruntled former member of Range Christian Fellowship, now Breakthrough Centre. I have some experience with that church and I won't dispute the authors claims, but it doesn't deserve to be mentioned in this article. The church is very small and has no influence in Toowoomba. There are far bigger and more influential churches just in Toowoomba, the most notable of which still barely deserved a mention here.

I think it's worth drawing the connection between pentecostalism, religion extremism, discrimination and hard right politics, but it could be done much better than it is now. 1.146.95.158 (talk) 00:31, 20 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

I agree the section on Breakthrough Christian Center should be removed as not be notable per Wikipedia Standards. See WP:notable.

As far as I can tell, none of the references are reliable secondary sources (i.e. RS). The primary reference Small, for example, is a self published book by the wife of the founding pastor. I tried searching for RS myself, but couldn't find anything. Hence, despite all of the work that went into this section, I deleted it as not being notable. If others disagree, or if they can find suitable RS, please comment below. I would be happy to add a description if we can find suitable sources. Nowa (talk) 14:25, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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