Speaking in Tongues through the Microphone

I am curious what you think about this.

There are preachers who have their little canned sayings in so called tongues such as, Heee Looo Mo Hyaaaahaaa!! to add emphasis to their sermons. They might as well be saying Supercalifragilisticexpeliadoshis!

I can't stand it when preachers do this. If they want to speak in tongues, they should pull the mike back or they, in my opinion are in direct violation of scripture.

I know of one young man who pulled the mike away, and even covered his mouth and my respect for him skyrocketed (trust me, he is from CA and an ultra, ultra conservative of the V.M stripe). Another who thinks he needs to toss out a few unintelligible words when people aren't responding to his sermon like he thinks they should is not worth sitting in front of.

[RandyWayne]

Ya know, I WONDER if this is close to the exact same thing that Bro Strange was talking about in his initial post about going to the camp meeting and things being "different".
That (and the above) are certainly my take on it.

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Ya know, I WONDER if this is close to the exact same thing that Bro Strange was talking about in his initial post about going to the camp meeting and things being "different".
That (and the above) are certainly my take on it.

Wow, good point! I am concerned when preaching tactics and skill are replaced by theatrics.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Chewy

Wow, good point! I am concerned when preaching tactics and skill are replaced by theatrics.

Whats a preaching tactice or a skill and how do they differ from theatrics?

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Whats a preaching tactice or a skill and how do they differ from theatrics?

I have heard awesome preachers set up their sermon like a masterful architect designing a building then as a master builder building it. The use of a combination of the annointing, use of scripture, prayer, experiences, proper speaking and communication techniques (as opposed to yelling and screaming), etc.

Some sermons are simply based in dry, unannointed, unstudied, common sense and it shows me the little fella up there either just regurgitated a sermon, or is simply making an attempt to get by on talent. Just because someone can raise their voice over a microphone, use sundry "tongues" phrases, and jump up and down doesn't mean they are preaching or that they are annointed.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Chewy

I have heard awesome preachers set up their sermon like a masterful architect designing a building then as a master builder building it. The use of a combination of the annointing, use of scripture, prayer, experiences, proper speaking and communication techniques (as opposed to yelling and screaming), etc.

Some sermons are simply based in dry, unannointed, unstudied, common sense and it shows me the little fella up there either just regurgitated a sermon, or is simply making an attempt to get by on talent. Just because someone can raise their voice over a microphone, use sundry "tongues" phrases, and jump up and down doesn't mean they are preaching or that they are annointed.

Why isn't proper speaking and communication techniques part of theatrics? BTW yelling or speaking with a loud voice is just as much a speaing technique as anything else. It's called crescendo, and we do the same thing in music.

Now yelling the entire sermon is just plain annoying and does not make proper use of such tecnique

I was taught not to speak in tongues in the mic. My late pastor told me that it can lead to confusion and such.

I do sometimes... not very often speak in tongues in the microphone. I usually pull the microphone down.

This is not to say that stiffling the moving of the Spirit is a good thing.

Originally Posted by Chewy

I am curious what you think about this.

There are preachers who have their little canned sayings in so called tongues such as, Heee Looo Mo Hyaaaahaaa!! to add emphasis to their sermons. They might as well be saying Supercalifragilisticexpeliadoshis!

I can't stand it when preachers do this. If they want to speak in tongues, they should pull the mike back or they, in my opinion are in direct violation of scripture.

I know of one young man who pulled the mike away, and even covered his mouth and my respect for him skyrocketed (trust me, he is from CA and an ultra, ultra conservative of the V.M stripe). Another who thinks he needs to toss out a few unintelligible words when people aren't responding to his sermon like he thinks they should is not worth sitting in front of.

Paul set forth the rules for tongues in the local assembly: if there is going to be tongues spoken out loud for all to hear then there MUST be an interpreter!

Preachers who speak in tongues in the manner you described are in sin!

[Arphaxad]

Originally Posted by Chan

Paul set forth the rules for tongues in the local assembly: if there is going to be tongues spoken out loud for all to hear then there MUST be an interpreter!

Preachers who speak in tongues in the manner you described are in sin!

How does one know if there is an interpreter if noone speaks in tongues out loud to begin with?

or say like brother such and such did a tongue interpretation once five years ago, and I know that he did, would it be wrong for me to speak in tongues out loud every svc after that, I know that there is an interpreter there, but he's not interpreting.




ARPH

Paul never said such were in sin.

He did say that such is unedifying to the whole Body, and that he who speaks in an unknown tongue and there is no one there with the gift of interpretation of tongues, then he should speak silently to himself and to God. Now, KNOWING the apostolic instruction, and choosing wilfully to just ignore it, may indeed be sin.

Personally, I don't see what the big deal is. I have never known anyone who said 'Well, my Christian friends invited me to their church, and everything was great, I was falling in love Jesus, and gettin' the Spirit and all... and then It happened. The preacher said something like "A hole in ma Honda" or something and that did it for me. Nope, don't want no part of this Jesus thing.'