Wilderness, Wells and Windrush

Prompted by the 2025 SPS Annual Meeting and the “More than a Song” project—an initiative exploring the intersection of worship practice and pentecostal thought—this Presidential Address engages the current call for formal liturgy within Pentecostalism. This paper argues that Pentecostal worship necessitates a liturgical expansion beyond traditional ecclesial geography into a dynamic spatiality marked by Divine-human encounter. Such an expansion validates the lived experience of ordinary theologians who, through the Spirit, “name” and consecrate the world around them—a theological reality ripe for exploration. By examining undesignated sacred spaces like the home and the classroom, this study envisions a Pentecostal liturgical theology that accounts for a God who is neither fixed nor stayed, ultimately broadening how the tradition defines sacred space and practice

Liturgy · Presidential address · Worship · Christian Theology and Mission · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces