From a young age, Jeanetta developed a deep love for the global body of Christ in its various expressions. Through this, she became convinced of a call into full-time ministry. She attended Cedarville University (OH) to study Worship Theology and receive training in worship ministry. While working on the creative staff, she began her MAT (Fuller) in Worship Theology and Biblical Studies for further theological training. After graduating (2021)—and much prayer—she began her PhD in Systematic Theology. After passing her comprehensive exams (2024), Jeanetta began her dissertation, titled “True and False Worship after Pentecost: Apocalyptic Conversations,” under the supervision of Dr. Amos Yong.
Now a creative pastor at a local pentecostal church in southern CA, Jeanetta spends much of her life between pastoral ministry and dissertation writing. In her few moments of spare time, she runs long distances with her husband, plays with her two dogs, and bakes sourdough bread.
Fuller Theological Seminary
M.A. in Theology and Biblical Studies
Systematic Theology, Pentecostal Studies, New Testament, Worship
Feminist-Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Hermeneutic of Participation
2023, Journal of Pentecostal Theology
This article explores an emerging hermeneutic of participation arising from the feminist-Pentecostal dialogue. For many, Pentecostal and feminist hermeneutics appear incompatible. Further examination reveals the possibility of dialogue originating from their pneumatological, canonical, narratival, and anthropological hermeneutical convictions. This is reinforced through shared theological values, anthropological convictions, and common history. This feminist-Pentecostal dialogue yields a hermeneutic of participation marked by orthodoxy, orthopathy, and orthopraxy. Ultimately, this hermeneutic of participation fosters discipleship and the flourishing of the Church.
Defining Worship after Pentecost: Envisioning Apocalyptic Conversations
2025, Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference Paper
Accepted as a conference paper for the 2025 gathering of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, this paper seeks to explore the ontological nature of worship and establish the following definition for worship: Worship is the orientation of the whole person toward a being that is perceived by the worshipper as the source of life/death, good/evil, and truth/lies which demands allegiance, orients affectively, and engages aesthetically. The goal of this project is to develop a broad and robust definition of worship that can encompass true worship, false (idolatrous) worship, and creation’s worship. Fundamentally, this definition assumes that all creation worships—both human and non-human. Furthermore, it seeks to expand a concept of worship beyond “true” and “false” to provide a framework for discernment and account for the testimony of Scripture that creation also worships. Positioning this exploration after Pentecost allows the fivefold gospel to inform the ontological nature of worship. This centers the person and work of Jesus (as Savior, Sanctifier, Spirit-Baptizer, Healer, and Soon-Coming King) as the orientation of true worship. Thus, false worship becomes anything that is oriented away from the person of Jesus. Finally, creation’s worship is understood as true worship as it is directed toward the One seated on the throne, who is the Lamb that was Slain.
Following Jesus in the Fullness of the Spirit: Exploring the Doxo-Logic of Pentecostal Ethics
2024, Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference Paper
A precursory glance at the US headlines reveals society’s need—indeed, desperate demand—for a robust response to frantic societal questions ranging from the refugee crisis to climate concerns. Neighborhoods and congregations too often divide along political lines in attempts to solve a growing list of pressing problems in need of urgent answers. Amidst the clamor and the division, is there a cohesive pentecostal theological framework to guide both reactive and proactive responses to these types of ethical questions? In this essay, I argue that pentecostal ethics exhibits a “doxo-logic” formed in worship, integrated in expression, and dialogical in orientation. Arising from a survey of the pentecostal literature on ethics, this will prove significant as it articulates various pentecostal theological inclinations while organizing diverse efforts into a unified theological articulation of a cohesive pentecostal ethic. Moreover, this presents a constructive framework for further pentecostal articulations of theological methodologies and guides endeavors to respond to specific ethical questions.
Feminist-Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Dialogical and Emerging Hermeneutics of Participation
2023, Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference Paper
In 2013, Pneuma dedicated an issue to an emerging conversation between feminist and Pentecostal theology. The issue opens with this declaration: “In the popular Pentecostal mind, feminism and Pentecostalism go together like fire and ice” (Coulter 2013, 1). For many, the charismatic fire of Pentecost seems diametrically opposed to the often-icy suspicion of the feminist theological endeavor. Moreover, Pentecostals have historically viewed feminist theology with deep-seated distrust and condemned it from the pulpit. Too often, the feminist voice is marginalized in Pentecostal circles. In this essay, I investigate several questions prompted by the dialogue between the modern Pentecostal and feminist movements. In particular, I investigate the following questions: Can Pentecostal and feminist hermeneutics speak to one another? If so, what are the distinctive traits of a shared hermeneutical project? I attempt to answer these questions over the three sections of my proposed essay. Through this investigation, my thesis emerges: Feminist-Pentecostal hermeneutics is a dialogical framework that offers an emerging hermeneutics of participation for the flourishing of the Church.
