Is The Gift of Tongues For Today?

[Socialite]

Originally Posted by Mr. Smith

You seem to be saying two opposite things....You say, yes, that a person can live just as powerful and overcoming Christian life without tongues while at the same time saying that a life without the Spirit (evidently you believe that without tongues, a person has not the Spirit) and without the gifts (evidently you believe a person without tongues has not any of the gifts) is "Not yet full." You also say it is a necessity while saying a person without it can live an equally powerful and overcoming life.

Can you clear that up for me?

Well, you've centered it all on tongues, while my central point is the Spirit.

If God has given these good gifts to the Church, I'd like to think a Church that either refuses to use them, or denies them is not living that "full Gospel" life that He intended for us. Wouldn't you?

So let me be more clear, a Church that does not welcome spiritual gifts, exhort believers to listen to the Holy Spirit and acknowledge a more central role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, is holding back from the Church what Christ has intended for our well-being.

Can they be overcoming? That is done in the cross. Are they robust, vibrant and healthy? That was promised to us through the working of the Spirit. You enjoy reading, I strongly recommend Gordon Fee's "God's Empowering Presence."