Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Category: THE HOLY SPIRIT
According to some Christians you can't be an effective, powerful witness unless you as a believer go on to get baptized in the Spirit after your conversion and speak in tongues. If you don't speak in tongues, you're only half baked, they think, and you have little power to witness to the world. I intend to show here that this is faulty theology, and it's a theology which creates an ungodly, unnecessary and prideful class structure within the Church.
I've witnessed many who claim to have the gift praying over or for sick people in tongues, believing that in so doing they are more likely to be healed. I've seen no evidence that they're right.
I've come across many people and many situations over the years where believers were convinced that it was necessary to engage in spiritual warfare with the use of the gift of tongues. Is this true?
A commonly held view in much of the Church is that God is more inclined or more able to assist you if you pray in tongues. Is this true?
I've heard people declare that if your church doesn't have people speaking in tongues and being slain in the spirit, you should find a different church, because the Holy Spirit isn't there. Jesus Christ's answer to that one is this: Â "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them" (Matthew 18:20).
