ABSTRACT
Pentecostals in the fourth wave need to bridge the gap between spiritual experiences and theological education. The gap can be bridged by creating special programmes for pastors that are not structured like the formal courses, with many modules that pastors sometime deregister or fail to complete in record time. M. Masenya suggests the following short learning programmes which should have basic training: computer literacy, specialisations like youth ministry, pastoral counselling, leadership and management, contextual theology, critical African theology and pastoral theology. In order to win the war against the abuse of women by some pastors in the fourth wave, there is a need to have more women who will be bold enough to report incidences of abuse. Pastors in the fourth wave abuse religion because they are in need of money to run the ministry; some just want to show off.
