Pentecostals and charismatics claim that their expressive corporate worship is ‘in the Spirit’. This claim is tested by seeing how Luke in Acts, often taken by Pentecostals and charismatics as providing prescriptions for worship, might respond to the claim. From an examination of those places in Acts where believers’ worship and the Spirit motifs are found together it is concluded that Luke would assume that not some, but that all worship by the followers of Jesus – in the temple or synagogue or homes – was ‘in the Spirit’. For Luke it is not what believers do or experience in worship that would cause him to describe it as ‘in the Spirit’, but what had already been done to them in being filled with the Spirit so that there is nothing about Pentecostal or charismatic worship that would cause him to think it any more ‘in the Spirit’ than other styles of worship.

五旬节派和超凡魅力主义者声称，他们富有表现力的公司崇拜是“在圣灵中”。通过查看《使徒行传》中的路加福音（通常被五旬节派和超凡魅力的人提供崇拜的处方）如何回应该要求，来检验这一要求。通过考察使徒行传中一起发现信徒崇拜和圣灵图案的那些地方，可以得出结论，路加会假设不是耶稣信徒的全部崇拜，而是圣殿，犹太教堂或房屋中的所有崇拜，而是“在圣灵中。对于卢克来说，不是信徒的行为或崇拜经历会使他将其描述为“在圣灵中”，