Is the "church" simply not living close enough to God for the manifestation of REAL speaking in tongues?

Question

Too much fake, not enough real, and no-one wants to do anything about it. The church folks are afraid, thinking "Don't touch 'the LORD's annointed' "-- a reference to King David's words about King Saul. What preachers, these days, were ordained by a PROVEN prophet of GOD instead of deciding, themselves, (even if "prayerfully"), to enter the ministry? Think, all Israel knew that Samuel's words didn't "fall to the ground" & that whatever he said actually came true. GOD even told the people to not fear prophets who prophesied and it didn't come true, since such a prophet was not sent by HIM. The new testament(NT) teaches to discern whether an utterance is from GOD or not. This seems to rarely be done in modern churches. Also, other things modern churches decline to do that are taught in the NT, but too many are ignoring these as they find them difficult or inconvenient and prefer to fuss about things not even taught. They argue over manmade doctrines & imagined intent.

Answer 1

+ Pope John Paul II +

John Paul II was fluent in his native Polish and also Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Croatian, Portuguese, Russian and Latin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II

+ Pope Benedict XVI +

Pope Benedict XVI, in addition to his native German, fluently speaks Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin, and has a knowledge of Portuguese. He can read Ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew. http://winelib.com/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

At the end of his speech on Christmas 2006, the Pope Benedict XVI delivered Christmas greetings in more than 60 languages. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061225/ap_on_re_eu/pope_christmas_6

Could this be the modern version of the gift of speaking in tongues as expressed in the second chapter of Acts?

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I have never read so much gibberish as is in some of these answers.

Tongues is a gift today and there are no scriptures that say it was ever removed and the ones they twist are just silly. Paul talking to the church said he spoke in tongues more than any of them did, he said the gift should be used properly not that it was not important or useless. There are churches today where in tongues are used properly and it is a worthy gift. Also Paul said that prophesy was a worthy gift to seek. In Romans 1:12 there is a list of some of the present day gifts and prophesy is among them

People are afraid of prophets, so they would prefer they not exist.. Even in OT times they were often killed.

The problem is simple. We do not use Biblical guidance in choosing preachers. Instead churches are often run by a group of merchants who pick a preacher who will say what they want and keep everyone happy. A good preacher is gonna get people riled up once in a while but that is not what business people wanyt. They want people who come are happy build buildings and give money. Some good advice is preached but the hard teachings go unpreached and most everyone is still on milk.

First we need to appoint good teachers who really know that the truth is more important than popularity. We have drifted so far away from God as a group that it will take years of competent teaching and sacrificial behaviors giving time to those who need it and giving peoples whole hearts to God before we will pull ourselves out of this.

Prophets should be prized, there should not be dust on anyones Bibles, we must be willing to spend a lot of time in prayer and start rejecting the values taught to us by our culture which is pretty much completly out of sync with Biblical standards.

We need to get in touch with Mat 18 and the letters to Tim. there needs to be accountability. People like Bush should be excommunicated and not allowed to profess Christianity in public places without getting rebuked.

pretty much as a group we need to start over and remember that being in one accord is a central teaching and denominations are an abomination.

This does not mean there are not some right on churches out there but it does mean that we need to clean up our act.

Answer 3

Too many people looking for a quick fix, a microwave solution. Many self proclaimed Christians very seldom read their Bibles, so how are they suppose to know what they're supposed to know.

Tongues was a gift given to the Corinthian Church, and no longer exists today.

Answer 4

apostle Paul said...1 cor...no need to...talk in tongues.
he told corinth it was carnal to do so..they spoke gibberish.

preachers aren't ordained by any prophet of God..

Gifts are received from the Holy Spirit..
of which there are nine.

Holy Spirit-leads-guides and directs...
but Jesus is the final authority..the living authority.

you don't know much about God's word..
Hope you don't teach others.

Answer 5

Is this a question or something that you should be bringing up at your own church.. Maybe you choose to attend that type of church, but don't accuse the rest of us of following your lead..

Answer 6

Wow; you've done some serious searching on this topic, my friend. You'd be an interesting person with whom to converse.

Answer 7

Yes, there are too many false prophets around.

Answer 8

Speaking in tongues is nonsense.