[Boogieman]

Well, I can see the pastor’s point. When people are babbling in nonsense, made-up languages and calling it “speaking in tongues” (and this is accepted by the congregation), and meetings are held where any random person can get up and start prophesying (having never shown any gifts of prophecy, and not having their message vetted), well, that makes the whole movement look foolish and might make some doubt authentic manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

[caww]

Just as with everything else of God the enemy can and does counterfeit “gifts”......I would go so far as saying that 99% of those claiming glossolalia do not have that gift as it’s presented today.

[redleghunter]

Good friend and brother in Christ attends a Pentecostal church. I asked him about the tongues. He told me his pastor runs the congregation in accordance with Scriptures. If someone is going to speak in tongues they better have someone there to interpret as stated by Paul.

[Elsie]

Folks who are lacking in knowledge think that there is only ONE kind of 'tongues'; but the Bible is plain there are TWO.

1. The kind where you need another to interpret what was said
2. The kind where only GOD knows what was said.

1 Corinthians 14:27
If anyone speaks in a tongue, two--or at the most three--should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret.

...and verse 2...

2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.