Biblical guide for a "church service"

Originally Posted by SavedLou

first of all it's sister, not brother but to answer your question, of COURSE we must have order and start to mature. but in my opinion paul's directions in corinthians were to the church there who were not doing things orderly or as they had already been established throughout the NT. the upper room experience of 120 people receiving the HG, speaking in tongues as a worship experience or those praying to themselves in tongues is totally different than 1 or 2 giving a clear, direct message to the church. and when THIS is done at our church, yes of course there is an interpreter.

Wait a second Lou, I think perhaps you and I have a total different understanding of the 120 in the upper room at Pentecost....

You seem to be implying that this looked like a "modern day" Pentecostal service with everyone standing around praising God in unknown tongues all at the same time"

My understanding is that NOTHING like that happened at all.....

If we look closely we see that these people were sent to Jerusalem to preach the gospel to the NATIONS OF THE WORLD,,, beginning at Jerusalem... this was an impossible feat for 120 people to reach the known world.. and with all the language barriers it just could not be done....

They asked Jesus.. How are we going to fulfill this comission.. he told them to go to Jerusalem and wait for the "ability from on high"... which they did..

Once the Holy Ghost delivered this ability to them they immediatly began speaking " in other foreign languages" THEY WERE NOT SPEAKING IN PENTECOSTAL STYLE tongues,.... as we see in the Pentecostal churches today....

Immediately they began telling the "wonderful works of God in every known languages"

They were not IN PRAISE talking to God,, they were TELLING THE WORKS OF GOD in foreign languages.....

Paul tells us that if someone is speaking in tongues they were speaking unto God... these people at Pentecost were not speaking to God, they were speaking to MEN about the wonderful works of God in earthly foreign languages