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1 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | dwayneoukid | 160751 | ||
How do people feel about the gift of Speaking in Tongue? | ||||||
2 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | DocTrinsograce | 160752 | ||
Hi, Dwayne... Speaking in tongues is an evangelistic gift of the Holy Spirit, the first appearance of which is recorded in Acts chapter 2. In addition to the book of Acts, it is mentioned in Mark 16. Paul offers some additional teaching on it in the first epistle to the Corinthians. God graciously provided tongues as a means of furthering the Gospel during the infancy of the church. In terms of practice, there are some believers that think that tongues are a normative behavior for today. There are other believers who think that it is one of the miraculous signs that were only manifest in the primitive church. When you ask how people "feel" about it I'm not sure I understand. Tongues are a Biblical and, therefore, historical fact. Facts are facts regardless of how people feel about them. In Him, Doc |
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3 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | ItsMe | 160758 | ||
I must have grown up in a church or environment that gave tongues a bad image. As an adult I met quite normal people who said they spoke in tongues. So, not to be prejudging I prayed that God would give me that gift if He wanted me to have it. I prayed about it a lot. I never felt that I spoke in a different language. I went on a mission trip to South America 2 years ago. In a large church we were asked if we would give a testimony and I was one ofthe volunteers. We had a wonderful Venezuelan man that traveled with us translating. He translated for the first 2 people that spoke. When I got to the front to speak, I found myself saying "me nobre is maria josefina"...and a lot more. The translator and I looked at each other and he started translating for my English speaking friends. I know that I told the people Jesus Christ was my best friend. I know I told them how lost I was before I met Him. How much God has blessed me. Only in Spanish. And I don't speak Spanish. My friends were amazed. A year later I told a pastor friend in my denomination and he said - God gave you the gift of tongues! He said that our denomination believed that speaking in tongues was when God gave you the gift to speak in another language to someone. I'm not defining it that narrowly though it was not a trivial experience. I was told by someone once that I was praying in another language. They didn't disturb me but that I was defintely not praying in English. So maybe there is a gift of praying just to Him in another special language. I do know I spoke fluent Spanish for quite awhile - and I don't know it still! | ||||||
4 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | Searcher56 | 160761 | ||
ItsMe, God's day to you ... That is a great example of speaking in tongues ... the praying part concerns me ... "For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful" (1 Cor 14:14) ... was you mind unfruitful? ... Searcher | ||||||
5 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | mark d seyler | 160763 | ||
Hi Searcher, What do you think it means, the phrase "my mind is unfruitful", and what do you think its significance is in this context? Love in Christ, Mark |
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