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To: count-your-change
and restrained.

Sounds like editorializing according to your personal sensibilities.

King David's wife had a comment about his dancing before the Lord in a more 'restrained' fashion. She ended up barren for her attitude/critique.

"Decently and in order" the KJV says. Yeah, chaos is not orderly or helpful.

The MOST beautiful sounds, music, worship experiences I've ever been a part of have been the 3-5 times in my 65 years when in a medium to large group, Holy Spirit led and directed singing in tongues broke out in different parts of the congregations simultaneously. Different melodies; different languages; no one leading but Holy Spirit--EVERY MELODY INTERWEAVING SYMPHONICALLY TO PERFECTION. It may well have been that angels were also adding their voices as the sound was thoroughly Heavenly. And I doubt many had much of a clue as to the specifics Holy Spirit was expressing from their spirit to God--just as Paul notes in I Cor 12-14. Then, when Holy Spirit was finished, it all stopped very close to the same instant.

Glibly skipping over Paul's mention about his mind not being enlightened by his praying in tongues is not very . . . honorable in the argument, to me.

Basically, fantasies and rationalizations don't hold a candle to Biblical truth and Biblical experiences.

As to the love aspect . . . some of the nastiest pontifications I've experienced in my 65 years have been on the part of folks wailing about a lack of love and with great hostility against tongues.

Impressive.

20 posted on 03/09/2012 2:22:43 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
Impressing you was not the goal. Paul's comments to the Corinthians show that the gift of speaking in tongues was of a far lessor nature than prophesying or that of Christian love above all and that speaking in tongues was one of those gifts that was to pass away.

So it's neither my nor your sensibilities that is salient but what Scripture says. Speaking in tongues is of no importance to the mature Christian church.

23 posted on 03/09/2012 4:11:01 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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