Pentecostals are all about experiences, and interpreting them in the light of their theology.
Here's a scenario that doesn't make sense to me: a roomful of blabbering, incoherent people all talking at the same time.
Here's a scenario that makes sense to me: God causes the speaker to speak in a language to a given person in the audience, who knows the language. The listener recognizes that the speaker is speaking for God into his life. A third person repeats the words of the speaker in the language of the audience.
This scenario makes sense. Mindless blabbering by Pentecostals, all speaking at once, without interpretation, makes no sense. What makes sense is someone taught them this behavior. In fact, you will find all kinds of "tongues-speakers" online trying to prime the pump, teaching others how to speak in tongues. Those videos are hilarious, by the way.
I also deny that some have a prayer language that makes them more effective in prayer than the normal believer who does not speak in tongues.
Now, deny that these practices are not commonplace in the Pentecostal world. Does your church practice orderly speaking in tongues, even by your understanding of tongues, or do you have a mass of people all blabbering at once? Is there always an interpreter for the tongues? If not, then you are at best, disobedient to the Scriptural commands concerning this practice, and likely simply practicing unbiblical things.
Here's a scenario that doesn't make sense to me: a roomful of blabbering, incoherent people all talking at the same time.
Here's a scenario that makes sense to me: God causes the speaker to speak in a language to a given person in the audience, who knows the language. The listener recognizes that the speaker is speaking for God into his life. A third person repeats the words of the speaker in the language of the audience.
This scenario makes sense. Mindless blabbering by Pentecostals, all speaking at once, without interpretation, makes no sense. What makes sense is someone taught them this behavior. In fact, you will find all kinds of "tongues-speakers" online trying to prime the pump, teaching others how to speak in tongues. Those videos are hilarious, by the way.
I also deny that some have a prayer language that makes them more effective in prayer than the normal believer who does not speak in tongues.
Now, deny that these practices are not commonplace in the Pentecostal world. Does your church practice orderly speaking in tongues, even by your understanding of tongues, or do you have a mass of people all blabbering at once? Is there always an interpreter for the tongues? If not, then you are at best, disobedient to the Scriptural commands concerning this practice, and likely simply practicing unbiblical things.
Amen paul.
My experience exactly.
I need nothing changed.
You can't mentally process the things of the spirit.
That gets messy indeed.
As you are finding out