Nelson

identifies 5 principles in the expansion of the Congregacao Crista do Brasil (1) Proximity (2) repudiates calculable rationality (3) uses existing structures and metaphors often derived from folk catholicism (4) exclusivity (5) congruence¹

1 R Nelson, ‘Five principles of indigenous church organization : lessons from a Brazilian Pentecostal church’, Missiology 17:1 (1989), 39—51