There have been innumerable people who claim to have been overtaken by the «Holy Spirit» — just see the Baptists
who speak in tongues.
For
those who speak in tongues everything depends on what happens when the road of the faith journey turns toward the cross and the crucial transition it announces.
I know many Christians
who speak in tongues in this way, but have a great relationship with God, and are loving people in the community in wonderful, tangible ways.
Last summer, the IMB loosened restrictions for its missionaries, allowing
those who speak in tongues, were baptized in a church that disagrees with the SBC's view of baptism, are divorced, or are parents of teenagers.
Mormons, Amish, Catholics, fundamentalists
who speak in tongues and handles snakes, Baptists, Episcopalians, they all have people who sound exactly like you, yet they believe very different things.
The Amish, the Mormons, the Catholics, various fundamentalist churches — including the ones
who speak in tongues and handle snakes, the Westboro Baptist Church, churches that denounce ho - mose - xuality as an abomination and churches that marry gays and admit them to their clergy, and a lot who belong to no church at all.
14:5 Greater is one who propjesies than one
who speaks in tongues unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
For more than a decade, the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board (IMB) disqualified candidates
who spoke in tongues or who had been baptized in churches that disagreed with the convention's view of baptism.
Probably some there
who spoke in tongues thought themselves moved on occasion to curse Jesus (I Cor.
Among those who missed the significance of the elements of the Lord's Supper and caroused at table instead were, no doubt,
some who spoke in tongues (I Cor.
Not exact matches
Those
who believe will
speak in tongues and be unaffected by poisons and will be able to handle snakes and heal the sick by the mere laying of their hands.
It must be made quite clear that he
who, not on the fringe of the christian mystical tradition but at its point of fullest development, was able without imprudence to engage
in this formidable battle with matter had prepared himself for it by the most rigorous asceticism: first,
in childhood and youth, the asceticism of an unwavering fidelity to the christian ideal; later, that of a careful and constant obedience to the exigencies of a vocation which would lead him on without respite up the steeply climbing road to perfection till he came to that solitude which he himself described: «he would henceforth be for ever a stranger..., he would inevitably
speak henceforth
in an incomprehensible
tongue, he whom the Lord had drawn to follow the road of fire.»
That
speaking in tongues was absent from the AG's national policy meeting would surprise many
who might assume that the largest predominantly white Pentecostal fellowship
in the U.S. embraces the practice heartily.
He is not just the third member of the Trinity
who causes some Christians to see dreams,
speak in tongues, and act strange.
I would relate it to Binny Hinn, or people
who fake
speaking in tongues.
17 And these signs will accompany those
who believe:
in my name they will cast out demons; they will
speak in new
tongues; 18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.
Among white Pentecostals the pressure comes from the charismatics,
who are shedding certain classical Pentecostal doctrines, particularly «the baptism of the Holy Spirit» and its being «evidenced» by
speaking 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.
Glycon
In the middle of the 100s AD, out along the south coast of the Black Sea, Glycon was the son of the God Apollo, who: came to Earth through a miraculous birth, was the Earthly manifestation of divinity, came to earth in fulfillment of divine prophecy, gave his chief believer the power of prophecy, gave believers the power to speak in tongues, performed miracles, healed the sick, and raised the dea
In the middle of the 100s AD, out along the south coast of the Black Sea, Glycon was the son of the God Apollo,
who: came to Earth through a miraculous birth, was the Earthly manifestation of divinity, came to earth
in fulfillment of divine prophecy, gave his chief believer the power of prophecy, gave believers the power to speak in tongues, performed miracles, healed the sick, and raised the dea
in fulfillment of divine prophecy, gave his chief believer the power of prophecy, gave believers the power to
speak in tongues, performed miracles, healed the sick, and raised the dea
in tongues, performed miracles, healed the sick, and raised the dead.
«And these signs will follow those
who believe:
in My name they will cast out demons; they will
speak with new
tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.»
These guys didn't even know about the holy ghost or
speaking in tongues and they definitely didn't understand
Who God is.
And these signs will follow those
who believe:
In My name they will cast out demons; they will
speak with new
tongues; «they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.»
He seems to imply that all
who believe
in God and follow Jesus are like the
tongue -
speaking, demon - vomiting, gay - hating, environment - polluting Christians he encountered at Cornerstone Church.
I fear for those
who seek to «
speak in tongues» and may be opening themselves to evil influence.
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 — ...
Whether they do it accidentally or intentionally, issues like paedobaptism or
speaking in tongues are easily caricatured by people
who don't understand them or
who chose not to practice them.
It is I
who need reminding that «if I
speak in the
tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
Apparently, the only person acting is Brown
who, backed by the organ strains of an old - time gospel song, seems to relish the role of
speaking in tongues, casting out demons and slaying people
in the spirit.
We never handled snakes,
in fact we denounced the practice as «tempting God» and even went so far as to say that those
who participated were unsaved (but then we said that about Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, anyone
who didn't
speak in tongues, etc).
«And these signs will accompany those
who believe:
in my name they will cast out demons; they will
speak in new
tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.»
Now seriously...
who needs to
speak in tongues or have dreams and visions when you see Jesus loving others through your life
in such tangible ways?
Don't you just hate it when people
who can
speak your language choose to talk around you
in their own
tongue?
Say you've met someone
who is Pentecostal or charismatic, a group whose members believe
in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as healing and
speaking in tongues.
Taking the verse «And these signs will follow those
who believe:
in My name they will cast out demons; they will
speak with new
tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.»
And some people
who believe
speaking in tongues is great criticize other Christians harshly saying they will burn
in hell.
As had Peter and John before him, Paul laid his hands on them and immediately they received the Holy Spirit,
who came on them with power, enabling them to
speak in tongues and even to prophesy.
Those
who hold a doctrine of subsequence often (though not always) maintain that the experience of «
speaking in tongues» represents the initial physical evidence of «the baptism of the Holy Spirit.»
Here is the testimony of the 3 witnesses to the Book of Mormon as set forth
in the introduction to the Book of Mormon: «Be it known unto all nations, kindreds,
tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come: That we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared,
who came from the tower of which hath been
spoken.
A former IMB trustee,
who helped put
in a place a ban on
speaking in tongues more than a decade ago, questioned the new policy, saying it «implies a «ya'll come,» lowering - of - the - bar openness.»
I'm a recovering pastor
who still
speaks in tongues but I have to agree that people often relate to the gifts of the Holy Spirit with more of a superstitious magic mentality than one of faith and submission.
I know people
who are so obviously filled with the Spirit but do not want to ever «
speak in tongues».
I know a linguist
who thinks and has seen what he describes as a gift of «
tongues», whereby some individuals pick up and learn to
speak another language very rapidly,
in a matter of days or weeks.
On the other hand, I had friends
in school
who were from a non-pentecostal denomination and they would tell me that «
speaking in tongues» was «of the devil».
Key to understanding this culture are a pair of verses from the Gospel of Mark
in the New Testament: «And these signs will follow those
who believe:
in My name they will cast out demons; they will
speak with new
tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.»
Kind of like the young Pentecostal
who just can't seem to
speak in tongues.
People targeted our children to gain favor with the church leadership — like the man
who was helping with Sunday School
who insisted my 11 year old daughter
speak in tongues, laying hands on her and yelling at her
in front of the other kids — all without our knowledge.
As we shall see, Paul,
who endorsed Corinthian
tongue -
speaking, had a way of setting the context that put
tongues in the service of mission.
One, parishioners
who insist that
speaking in tongues is necessary to spiritual maturing should be encouraged to join a Pentecostal church.
Those that
speak in tongues or those
who think it is demonic?
It does not say that you have to
speak in tongues to recieve salvation, it says all those
who believe
in Jesus Christ as Lord will gain eternal life.