Job Yenge Chiliza: A Pentecostal Church Founder and Trailblazer (Published)
This article analyses the theological views and ministry of Job Yenge Chiliza. He was educated at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missons’ school and later became preacher in the church and later experienced baptism in the Holy Spirit through contact with members of the Apostolic Faith Mission. He later associated with the Zionists, led by Ezra Mbonambi, two other Pentecostal churches, the Full Gospel Church of God and the International Pentecostal Holiness Church before he founded an independent Pentecostal church, the African Gospel Church. The article applies the Lekgotla practical theology research method to understand this phenomenon and ask: What theological views did Job Chiliza hold as he moved from one Christian tradition to the other and how these manifested in his ministry? The article argues that he embraced three different theological views, Protestantism, Zionism, and Pentecostalism, that ultimately manifested as Ubuntu Pentecostalism in his ministry.
Keywords: Pentecostalism, Protestantism, Ubuntu Pentecostalism, Zionism, fusion., theological views