Speaking in Tongues

[resurrection33]

I think there is pressure in some churches to speak in tongues. They lead you to believe that you are inferior if you don’t speak in tongues.

I think the result of this is that a lot of people PRETEND to speak in tongues by speaking jibberish.

Paul said this:

[27] If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn; and let one interpret.
[28] But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silence in church and speak to himself and to God. 1 Cor 14:27-28 RSV

 

[stefen]

Yes.. It happens in some pentecostal churches. Some believers think that its pride. But the sad thing is that, They will not go further beyond in their whole life.. Just the same tongues again and again.. They wont interpret it. No prophesy.. Once they got the Gift of tongues, they wont go further.

And Churches should push people to pray for tongues and use that in their personal prayers. Not in the public places, until they know the meaning of it. or until someone can interpret that in church. But these are not happening, going in wrong direction.

Guys blabber something to show off in front of girls in churches.. Yes, this is happening. Wanted fainting off.

 

[resurrection33]

Yes.. It happens in some pentecostal churches. Some believers think that its pride. But the sad thing is that, They will not go further beyond in their whole life.. Just the same tongues again and again.. They wont interpret it. No prophesy.. Once they got the Gift of tongues, they wont go further.

And Churches should push people to pray for tongues and use that in their personal prayers. Not in the public places, until they know the meaning of it. or until someone can interpret that in church. But these are not happening, going in wrong direction.

Guys blabber something to show off in front of girls in churches.. Yes, this is happening. Wanted fainting off.

The good news would be that the things we need to know are found in the Bible.

 

[tono77]

Is not good to falsificate tongues, this needs to come naturally from God. I tried to speak falsely in the flesh. Anf then realized this was not right. We need to wait and desire the gifts. But no force them .

 

[mwFerguson_MTh]

Pride-full church members who put on a good show of faith with their tongue-wagging gibberish have apparently missed Paul's major teaching points in 1 Cor. 14:

• the spiritual gift they should want more than any other is the gift of prophesy, not tongues (14:1b);
• ideally, tongue-waggers should not speak for the benefit of their like-gifted brethren (or the ladies in the assembly), but secretly to that deity they worship as their "God" (14:2);
• conversely, church members who prophesy aren't speaking to "God," but to other people to help them (individually and collectively) become more faith-full by offering them encouraging words when they backslide, and of comfort when they grieve (14:3);
• tongue-waggers help only themselves, but those followers of Jesus who prophesy help other people even if they (the other people) don't speak in tongues (14:4);
• Paul explained that people who only spoke in tongues without interpretation were of less importance in a church than members who could prophesy, interpret or, ideally, both (14:5);
• Paul realized that his teachings wouldn't be helpful to members in assemblies in which he spoke, or to which he wrote, if he did so in a language they couldn't understand (14:6);
• similarly, if they spoke in a language people didn't understand, they were just speaking into thin air, so to speak (14:7-17);
• Paul, because of his background and training, likely read and spoke Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and (perhaps) in an unknown spiritual tongue. Yet when people were gathered to hear his teachings, Paul would rather speak five (5) words everyone could understand and possibly be helped than five thousand (5,000) words no one could understand (14:18-19).

I leave it to the reader to see what other of Paul's teaching points regarding tongues they might glean from 1 Cor. 14:20-40.