Is Once Enough? Question about Glossolalia

[Nahum]

My brother backslid when he was 19. He is now 42. Four years ago he had an "experience" with God while driving home from work. He was listening to a worldly song, and something triggered an emotion in him. He broke, pulled over to the side of the road and cried and prayed for quite a while. He started attending church again.

He did not speak in tongues that day, nor has he since. He is living a committed life.

Is he lost?
Does he need to speak in tongues again to be right with God?

[revrandy]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

My brother backslid when he was 19. He is now 42. Four years ago he had an "experience" with God while driving home from work. He was listening to a worldly song, and something triggered an emotion in him. He broke, pulled over to the side of the road and cried and prayed for quite a while. He started attending church again.

He did not speak in tongues that day, nor has he since. He is living a committed life.

Is he lost?
Does he need to speak in tongues again to be right with God?

Bro. Nelson (Pioneer Pentecostal) used to preach that he only spoke in Tongues once in his life and that was when he recieved the Holy Ghost...

[Kutless]

I wanted to ask this question over on the Heavenly Language thread. I am not trying to hijack PP but thought it may be appropriate here.

Does the Bible record the disciples speaking in tongues again?

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

My brother backslid when he was 19. He is now 42. Four years ago he had an "experience" with God while driving home from work. He was listening to a worldly song, and something triggered an emotion in him. He broke, pulled over to the side of the road and cried and prayed for quite a while. He started attending church again.

He did not speak in tongues that day, nor has he since. He is living a committed life.

Is he lost?
Does he need to speak in tongues again to be right with God?

Hebrews 6:6 says, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance.
It does not say one has to re-speak in tongues, but it wouldn't hurt.

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

My brother backslid when he was 19. He is now 42. Four years ago he had an "experience" with God while driving home from work. He was listening to a worldly song, and something triggered an emotion in him. He broke, pulled over to the side of the road and cried and prayed for quite a while. He started attending church again.

He did not speak in tongues that day, nor has he since. He is living a committed life.

Is he lost?
Does he need to speak in tongues again to be right with God?

Where does the Bible say one must speak in tongues in order to be saved? Were the Apostles saved when Jesus breathed on them and said "Receive ye the Holy Ghost" before He ascended to Heaven? According to those who believe that one must speak in tongues in order to be saved, they weren't saved and, for that matter, neither were the rest of the 120 in that upper room saved until they spoke in tongues. If one believes along those lines then one must say that a backslider (someone who abandoned or "lost" his salvation) is not saved again until he speaks in tongues.

I don't happen to agree with that line of thinking but that's what one must conclude if one believes speaking in tongues is a requirement for salvation.

[revrandy]

Originally Posted by Kutless

I wanted to ask this question over on the Heavenly Language thread. I am not trying to hijack PP but thought it may be appropriate here.

Does the Bible record the disciples speaking in tongues again?

Paul... said he spoke in Tongues more than most...

1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

[chseeads]

Originally Posted by Kutless

I wanted to ask this question over on the Heavenly Language thread. I am not trying to hijack PP but thought it may be appropriate here.

Does the Bible record the disciples speaking in tongues again?

Paul, while not one of the 12 obviously, but an apostle anyways, did write about his speaking in tongues.

[chseeads]

Originally Posted by revrandy

Paul... said he spoke in Tongues more than most...

1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

You were quicker on the draw than me by a hair.

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by revrandy

Paul... said he spoke in Tongues more than most...

1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

That does not mean that you have to respeak in tongues though that is the question here. I am not sure if I have an opinion here other than we need to reenter through repentance. I think that if a heart is truly repentant then at some point the spirit will move on them again. JMO

[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by revrandy

Bro. Nelson (Pioneer Pentecostal) used to preach that he only spoke in Tongues once in his life and that was when he recieved the Holy Ghost...

Brother Nelson did speak in tongues again before he passed away.

I was working as off bear on a sawmill the year he died.

My boss sent me to Claremore on an errand, and on a whim, I dropped in to see Brother Nelson in the nursing home there, still in my work clothes.

We prayed together, and the Holy Ghost fell in the room, and he spoke with tongues.

I did not know at the time that he had never spoken in tongues since he received the Holy Ghost, so I didn't think much about it.

A few months after he did pass away, I was eating lunch with his son after preaching the Sunday morning service, and happened to mention that prayer meeting.

Dewayne dropped his fork and burst out weeping...I didn't have a clue why until he explained.

I actually was with Brother Nelson about 90 seconds before he left this world.

I preached in his church that morning, went to see him after the service, and he died before I got out to my car.

Going back and preaching to that church that night was one of the hardest services I ever participated in.

He was a wonderful man, and always very kind to me.