Sentences with phrase «spiritual speak in tongues»

«Tongues» can be divisive, as in «the spiritual speak in tongues and everyone else doesn't get the gift».

Not exact matches

Just because I was different (I am living in Colombia) I am pretty much judged and labeled as a non-believer or a «spiritual baby» because I don't jump around or speak in tongues.

But there are others, not so extreme, who say that the short cut to spirituality is speaking in tongues, or having some experience, or that you are truly spiritual if you get slain in the spirit, or experience holy laughter or see a vision of heaven or whatever.

Yes, some people pray incoherently out of habit or because they are not being thoughtful, but sometimes the prayers you criticise result from spiritual emotion and depth of experience of God - especially (I think) speaking in tongues.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary is a mysterious and awesome institution — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and turning out men and women in a highly specialized field — .In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary is a mysterious and awesome institution — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and turning out men and women in a highly specialized field — .in a highly specialized field — ...

I teach weekly at our Gathering but I have never wanted to be perceived «super spiritual»... In fact I would fear God if that arrogance reigned in my spirit... I just let God have control but «tongues» have never spokeIn fact I would fear God if that arrogance reigned in my spirit... I just let God have control but «tongues» have never spokein my spirit... I just let God have control but «tongues» have never spoken.

Now for the actual facts: According to Newsweek, this is a place that takes Catholicism seriously, but to the author of the Salon piece, the closest we get is a reference to, «We rocked out to Christian music with our hands in the air, watched people convulse in spiritual conversions as they were «saved» or «born again» and heard priests speak in tongues.»

Finally, I am adamantly apposed to using «speaking in tongues» as some sort of litmus test to determine someone's spiritual maturity.

As for 1 Corinthians 13 (interesting that the KJV translators used «charity» instead of «love» this time), the context is shown in the previous chapter to be about speaking in tongues no one understands and having spiritual gifts.

Chapters 12 — 14 deal with the issue of spiritual gifts, and ultimately, the gift of speaking in tongues (1 Cor 14), and so 1 Corinthians 12:1 - 3 is apparently the opening summary statement of what issue or question the Corinthian Christians were facing.

This tendency to confuse speaking in tongues with spiritual maturity, thus blocking real maturing, may have led Paul to omit speaking in tongues from his list of gifts for Rome (Rom.

One, parishioners who insist that speaking in tongues is necessary to spiritual maturing should be encouraged to join a Pentecostal church.

What do you think about the Scriptures in 1 corinthians where it talks about their being a diversity of spiritual gifts, and that not everyone will recieve the gift of prophecy, or the gift of speaking in tongues, or the gift of teaching, but God distributes these gifts as He wills.

Neither is it revealed by some sort of spiritual manifestations like being slain in the spirit or speaking in tongues or laughing hysterically.

In the view of even the most faithful and sophisticated church members, including those who are close friends of the clergy, the theological seminary and the seminary professor are mysterious and awesome — familiar only to the privileged and spiritual elite, speaking an esoteric tongue, and no place for the laity.

Pentecostals share the separatist stance of fundamentalists, but their style of worship — their emotional and experiential faith, with its emphasis on spiritual experiences such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy — contrasts with the more - staid expressions of fundamentalism.