Neo-charismatic churches

The Neo-charismatic movement is a category of evangelical churches which teach about the gifts of the Spirit, Spiritual warfare and Power evangelism. Charismatic Christianity incorporates Pentecostal, Evangelical charismatic movement, and neo-charismatic churches. Neo-charismatic churches represent the "Third Wave" but they are broader—now more numerous than Pentecostals (first wave) and charismatics (second wave) combined, owing to the growth of postdenominational and independent charismatic groups. The movement originated in 1980, in the United States. According to figures from Pew Research Center in 2011, the movement identifies 305 million believers.

Neo-charismatics, like Apostolics, Pentecostals and charismatics, believe in and stress the post-Biblical availability of gifts of the Holy Spirit, including glossolalia (speaking in tongues), healing, and prophecy. They practice laying on of hands and seek the "infilling" of the Holy Spirit. However, a specific experience of baptism with the Holy Spirit may not be requisite for experiencing such gifts. No single form, governmental structure, or style of church service characterizes all neo-charismatic services and churches. They consider themselves part of the Nondenominational Christianity. The general definition is somewhat negative in calling them "Christian bodies with pentecostal-like experiences that have no traditional pentecostal or charismatic denominational connections, (and sometimes only very slender—if any—historical connections)".

In 2011, the movement (aggregated with charismatic movement), a total of 305 million people. Removing non-neo-charismatics(a.k.a. charismatics) from that count, neo-charismatics number somewhere in the range of zero to 305 million. Some 19,000 denominations or groups are identified as neo-charismatic. Neo-charismatic tenets and practices are found in many independent, nondenominational or post-denominational congregations, with strength of numbers centered in the African independent churches, among the Han Chinese house-church movement, and in South American (especially Brazilian) churches.

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