Monday, 23 January 2017

About tongue speaking in B-P Churches

Mark 16:17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues

The tongue in Corinthian Church is the new tongues, the tongue in Acts is the old tongues!

1Co 12:28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. 

There were and are various kinds of tongues, so, Charismatic tongue speaking is a kind of tongue!

Paul wants us to speak in tongues

1 Cor. 14:5 "I want you all to speak in tongues." Paul's desire to set boundaries on speaking in tongues does not mean that he thinks the Corinthians should abandon this gift. It builds up the individual who has it (v. 4), and, if interpreted, builds up the church. (See also vv. 13, 18, 27, 39.) Still, prophecy is greater because, as intelligible speech that needs no interpretation, it is more directly useful to the church. Unless someone interprets implies that if there is an interpreter, then prophecy and tongues have equal value, since then they would both be understandable. But equal value does not imply that the gifts have the same function, for prophecy is based on something that God suddenly brings to the mind of the speaker, and thus is communication from God to man (vv. 25, 30; cf. Acts 11:28; 21:4, 10–11), while tongues is ordinarily prayer or praise from man to God (1 Cor. 14:2, 14–17, 28; cf. Acts 10:46).

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