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Date: | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:12:57 -0600 |
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Hi Kathy, I will read the piece you suggested.
You are right about my being uncomfortable with it and how that might color
my opinion.
That's why I put that out there as my first thought on it.
Terri has seen it and she is ok with it but she and I have different views
on it.
She came from a Pentecostal upbringing and she was always told that some had
the gift while others did not and I hear her talk of gossip which went on
among her church members about the different people who engaged in it.
There was supposedly one guy who bought tapes to teach him how to speak in
tongues.
I think this sort of gossip is mean spirited and that it shows one of the
evils or childishness which can be brought on in a church situation.
I don't understand, if it is your being closer with god by speaking in an
unknown tongue, then why is it outloud for others to observe?
What is the point of that?
It would only serve to boost the ego of the person doing it because they
have something the rest did not have.
I did know that there were people on this list who believe in it.
That's one of the reasons I brought it up here.
Some of Phil's notes, sometimes make me uncomfortable and I don't want to
respond out of ignorance or with frustration or anger, so I do this.
I ask questions and read responses publicly.
This is not to say that I have not engaged in the sin of discussing it
privately with others but that is really mine to deal with in discussions
with jesus.
I am sorry for doing it but I try not to be mean spirited about it.
It is just done out of a spirit of learning or wonderment.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Matt
Hurt people, hurt! people.
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