Yet another article looking at the issue of speaking in tongues. In light of this article, I compare it to blogs I’ve read since the General Council.
In my own view, as an Assemblies of God pastor, it just isn’t about tongues… at all. It’s about prayer. We can preach on “tongues.” But if we aren’t people of prayer, we can’t expect the activity of the Spirit. That’s just my two cents, anyway.
You are right dan – it’s about prayer. Maybe too the general lack of people (and churches) being filled with the Spirit is because of the general lack of prayer in many churches?
[...] Dan is right 22 09 2009 It’s about prayer not tongues necessarily. Here is his post: [...]
Rethinking “Praying in the Spirit”: Fee or O’Brien…
For Paul, the concern was not only that they be clothed with the armor that Christ provides in the gospel, but that they take the enemy on by Spirit-empowered proclamation and by Spirit-inspired praying.
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