First of all, why is there so much emphasis on this in some churches? Doesn't the Bible say that different people have different gifts? Then why don't people push others to have the gift of teaching or giving or whatever?
As for people coming in to church and saying they were baptized in the Spirit in their private prayer time, how do others know they're not BS'ing if there were no witnesses?
I know that when a person speaks in tongues in public assembly there is supposed to be an interpreter, so when a person does this, how does he/she know there will be an interpreter?
And isn't there more to the Holy Spirit than tongues anyway?
I guess I'm a little cynical, having been raised in a church that doesn't really believe in tongues in the present day. But the church I'm in now is all over the place talking about this right now.
2007-06-22
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