ABSTRACT
To ‘have faith’ in African Caribbean Pentecostalism begins with an experience of Jesus through a pneumatic encounter with the Spirit of God. To accept God is, on one level, to practise the ethics and values of Jesus, thrashed-out through a life-long relationship with the second person of the Trinity. He is ever-present and metaphorically ‘walks and talks’ with the believer. Therefore, when Black Pentecostals sing the chorus, ‘God is not dead, He’s still alive . . . I can feel Him in my hands . . .’, it is an affirmation of the divine presence in their bodies and lives.
