Pentecostal Church Speaking Tongue

When I was a young child, I went to a church in Southern Alabama, where my family lived. Within that church there were members of the congregation that were speaking words that was not English or any other language that I had heard before. At age five, I built up the courage to ask my grandma what they saying. She began to explain to me that they were speaking tongue. As an adult, I think that speaking in tongues is a gift given to older generational church members of the in the South. According to Roxanne Beth Johnson, speaking tongues is faking gibberish, but the true term is glossolalia, which according to Britannica Academic speaking in tongue is the “utterances approximating words and speech, usually produced during states of intense religious …show more content…
The first thing that occurred was the development of the Pentecostal church. This was the beginning of speaking tongues. It was a form of fulfilling the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Christians shunned those of Pentecostals faith, until some churches added tongue speaking practices, which was the beginning, of the charismatic movement. Charismatic Christians were not apart of a different denomination; they are within each different denominational group, except within the cessationist theologians. The final stage took place in the 1980’s. It was considered to be the more direct type of faith, because it embraced gifts and manifestations. For example, Christian’s should not only expect healing, but they believed that they should be delivered; as for it was stated in the New …show more content…
I believe that all Christians should be willing and accepting to all of the gifts and strengths that God provides. For example, patience, healing, miracles, tongue speech and interpretation, and wisdom beyond understanding. As a young new Christ follower I have had the opportunity to develop a stronger faith from my fellow church family. Some members of my Church congregation have been blessed with the capability to understand see the pain beyond the smile and help other members find scriptures to help them in their time of need. The Cessationist believers would argue that the miracles that occur couldn’t be supported within the bible, but Psalms 107:20 states “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” The Cessationist believers would also state that if you have the Bible you do not need gifts, because the Bible provides structure and guidance. In 1 Corinthians 13:8-13, it states, “Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror