bigjon said:
I personally feel the Penecostals put too much emphasis on the role of the Holy Spirit in worship. Thus where the use of speaking in tongues comes from. The Bible speaks of a Christian being baptised of the Spirit and they take to far imo, however, there other beliefs line up with mine, and I have no doupt they are Christians too. Speaking in tongues as mentioned the bible is not the same as the video u see on Youtube. In the bible it was when the 12 apostle first went to spread the Gospel to the known world the Abibity to speak, and everyone hear it in their own lang. For example the Apostle Thomas went to the region around the Indus river, for the people to understand him he must have had the gift of tongues. When it comes to the HS there is a difference between indwelling and possesstion, I feel the people in the video above are misguided into thinking it has more to do with possesstion.
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While I do agree that some christians put too much emphasis on speaking in tongues (so that it becomes a forced and human produced thing rather than being a manifestation of the true Holy Spirit), you kinda narrowed down it's role a bit too much. The apostle Paul talks about speaking in tongues as a natural thing for christians. He encourages us to seek the gift/ability to speak in tongues, he mentiones it being a part of a christians private prayer etc. So it doesn't just have a role in mission to gentiles, far from it.
