All of the gifts are alive and well... Holy Spirit does not take back gifts. He is the giver of gifts.
That’s right and we have to test them in the light of Scripture as Paul exhorted the early Church to.
All of the gifts are alive and well... Holy Spirit does not take back gifts. He is the giver of gifts.
What the problem seems to be is that people are a little familiar with the theology in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14 but not all of it.
Much of what surrounds the teaching on the gifts and tongues in particular, is outright unscriptural.
Paul teaches that the Holy Spirit apportions the gifts as HE will. The churches teach (and I've heard it myself) that tongues is for ALL believers.
Paul tells the church to seek not to speak in tongues but rather to prophesy, and the whole emphasis these days to to *get* the gift of tongues for various unscriptural reasons. People are seeking after tongues in disobedience to the clear teaching of Scripture.
Paul states that tongues are a sign for unbelievers, not believers, and yet believers everywhere are told that tongues is THE *evidence* of the filling of the Holy Spirit.
Pentecostals in general seem to be unwilling to accept that someone can be filled with the Holy Spirit and not have spoken in tongues. And that tongues can be faked and sometimes is.