[metmom]

I’ve been told by more than one Pentecostal, people I am close to, that if I didn’t speak in tongues, I wasn’t really Spirit baptized/filled, no matter what I experienced.

Sure, God *did something* but when I get the baptism with tongues, it will be way better.

One person even told me that the evidence is different than the gift of tongues and that if the evidence of tongues wasn’t there, I wasn’t baptized in the Spirit.

Course, there’s always the confusion of what exactly the terms mean and since different people use it to mean different things, you have to figure out where they are coming from first, and when you try to pin down exactly what they mean by *baptism* they can’t even define it.

For some people it happens at salvation, when they receive the Holy Spirit. According to others, you can receive the Holy Spirit without being baptized in Him. But it seems that even people who use those terms do not do so with consistency and cannot often even figure out what they mean themselves.

Sigh......

[boatbums]

It's not called Charismatic Chaos for nothing! Paul said to the church at Corinth that all things were to be done decently and in order. God is not the author of confusion. The Charismatic casualties the author of this thread decries can be traced directly back to the immature and carnal Christians that seem to get a lot of attention these days in churches. The glory belongs to God, NOT the praise-seekers.

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It’s pretty clear in the Word.

SOME and only “some” speak in tongues. The earlier posts you made are the correct way to think about this.