The Charismatic Movement, across its many expressions, affirms the survival of the soul after physical death. Believers pass into the presence of Christ at death and await the bodily resurrection. This is simply the position of the host traditions in which the movement operates — Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant — all of which affirm conscious post-mortem existence.

Chrismatic theology adds emphasis on spiritual experience in the present life, but does not alter mainstream Christian understandings of death and afterlife. The expectation of Christ's return and the resurrection of the dead is central to charismatic spirituality, which tends to have a strong eschatological and expectant tone.