(Amy Spreeman – Berean Research) I recently received a letter from a women’s ministry asking about speaking in tongues, after several of the group’s members discussed their own personal experiences praying to God in a private prayer language. Additionally, because the New Testament seems to be encouraging tongue-speaking in church, they asked if this gift was still alive and practiced biblically today. Great questions!
Tongues that sound like unintelligible speech or gibberish became popular in the late 1800s with the rise of Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, after many centuries in which the Church was largely silent regarding such practices.
Biblically, the gift of tongues was given by the Holy Spirit as a sign gift. Along with other miraculous gifts given to believers such as healing and raising the dead, sign gifts served to authenticate the message of Christ and point people to His divine authority.
Research: New Apostolic Reformation
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18
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