Tag: Do I need a second blessing?

Who Has the Holy Spirit and Who Doesn’t?

Who Has the Holy Spirit and Who Doesn’t?

From my earliest days as a Christian I've seen and heard confusing and conflicting things being preached on the subject of the Holy Spirit's work and ministry. I've witnessed others being in similar confusion and doubt. I found myself being discriminated against and looked down upon in the Church because I didn't have this and I couldn't do that. I was a second-class Christian at best in the eyes of the enlightened, super-spiritual ones, especially the ones who had decided that they were apostles.

Tongues Can’t Make You Into A Greater Witness: Part 6 of Six Things  The Gift of Tongues Cannot Do.

Tongues Can’t Make You Into A Greater Witness: Part 6 of Six Things The Gift of Tongues Cannot Do.

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.