First Real Post: Speaking in Tongues
The Southern Baptist Convention has taken a strong stance. You can read about it here. It seems that they weren't content with forbidding their missionaries to pray in tongues in private, now they are prohibiting any endorsement on any level.
It's not unusual for a denomination to label something as "unscriptural" or even heretical. That's why denominations get started. There is a disagreement over the interpretation or practice of something in scripture, and if it gets too contentious a split may occur. Although the SBC took its stance a long time ago, recent developments have made it necessary for them to put this issue back on the table. More and more Christians are practicing what used to be considered, Pentecostal practices. In many evangelical , non-pentecostal churches you are hearing upbeat, non-hymnal music, lifting of hands, praying for the sick, and in some cases, speaking in tongues and interpretation. God is moving beyond the charismatic, Pentecostal boundaries and pouring out his Spirit on all flesh.
Interestingly, although there is a spreading of Pentecostal, charismatic type practices in non-pentecostal churches, the practice of some of these distinctives is disappearing or at least rare, in many traditional Pentecostal, full-gospel churches.
Many have chosen to challenge the standard Pentecostal doctrine that speaking in tongues is the initial physical evidence of being baptized in the Spirit. My feeling is that God's word will not be denied. If his witness wanes in one group, he'll raise up another group to be faithful to his Word.
Are you a full-gospel Christian? Do you speak in tongues? Have you done so recently, or given a word during a gathering of the church? Do you believe that speaking in tongues is the intial physical evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? If so, why? If not, why? I'd like to hear from you on this one.
It's not unusual for a denomination to label something as "unscriptural" or even heretical. That's why denominations get started. There is a disagreement over the interpretation or practice of something in scripture, and if it gets too contentious a split may occur. Although the SBC took its stance a long time ago, recent developments have made it necessary for them to put this issue back on the table. More and more Christians are practicing what used to be considered, Pentecostal practices. In many evangelical , non-pentecostal churches you are hearing upbeat, non-hymnal music, lifting of hands, praying for the sick, and in some cases, speaking in tongues and interpretation. God is moving beyond the charismatic, Pentecostal boundaries and pouring out his Spirit on all flesh.
Interestingly, although there is a spreading of Pentecostal, charismatic type practices in non-pentecostal churches, the practice of some of these distinctives is disappearing or at least rare, in many traditional Pentecostal, full-gospel churches.
Many have chosen to challenge the standard Pentecostal doctrine that speaking in tongues is the initial physical evidence of being baptized in the Spirit. My feeling is that God's word will not be denied. If his witness wanes in one group, he'll raise up another group to be faithful to his Word.
Are you a full-gospel Christian? Do you speak in tongues? Have you done so recently, or given a word during a gathering of the church? Do you believe that speaking in tongues is the intial physical evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit? If so, why? If not, why? I'd like to hear from you on this one.
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