The problem with the UPCI

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Same here. I have been at a couple of Baptist altars, tears, but still feeling empty until I came into Pentecost.

My BIL, a Baptist, told me you knew you had the Spirit when you felt joy. Okay, I felt joy taking a tequila shot when I was a bartender. I KNEW I was not saved.

I got the Holy Ghost in a little Baptist church. The preacher thought something was wrong with me, thought I was on drugs or having a freak out.

lol

[KWSS1976]

Well PO since we are going all "Greek",In Greek the word Tongues whats the definition?

[Hoovie]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Same here. I have been at a couple of Baptist altars, tears, but still feeling empty until I came into Pentecost.

My BIL, a Baptist, told me you knew you had the Spirit when you felt joy. Okay, I felt joy taking a tequila shot when I was a bartender. I KNEW I was not saved.

I am sure all of our experiences have some impact on our beliefs.

I was born again as an Old Order Mennonite - laying in bed listening to a Tape from Because of the Times.... I felt the Holy Spirit come into my heart and cried repenting of my sins. The presence of the Holy a Spirit was overwhelming, and I turned off the tape player to see whether it was literally coming out of the speaker. It did not stop, and it dawned on me that this was not "a feeling" but literally Jesus coming to me! I did speak in tongues the following year.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Hoovie

I am sure all of our experiences have some impact on our beliefs.

I was born again as an Old Order Mennonite - laying in bed listening to a Tape from Because of the Times.... I felt the Holy Spirit come into my heart and cried repenting of my sins. The presence of the Holy a Spirit was overwhelming, and I turned off the tape player to see whether it was literally coming out of the speaker. It did not stop, and it dawned on me that this was not "a feeling" but literally Jesus coming to me! I did speak in tongues the following year.

I agree - all of our experiences have some impact on our beliefs.

I can look back and see God's hand in my life before I fully gave my life to Him - showing His intense love for me.

It is just that I have noticed, since FCF, that there are those who do and have spoken in tongues who continue saying it is not the evidence, and that is just really weird. I can't decipher that in my little pea brain.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by KWSS1976

Well PO since we are going all "Greek",In Greek the word Tongues whats the definition?

It is a language.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Esaias

I got the Holy Ghost in a little Baptist church. The preacher thought something was wrong with me, thought I was on drugs or having a freak out.

lol

LOL! You are reminding me of another BIL who clapped during a Baptist service and afterward, the pastor told him they don't do that in his congregation.

[KWSS1976]

I will go with Tongues being the evidence, what I dont go with is the misuse of it in the Church setting.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by Esaias

I got the Holy Ghost in a little Baptist church. The preacher thought something was wrong with me, thought I was on drugs or having a freak out.

lol

lol. I would be interested in hearing all about this, Esaias!

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by KWSS1976

I will go with Tongues being the evidence, what I dont go with is the misuse of it in the Church setting.

Sometimes that can happen when people become more emotional than spiritual. However, we have to be careful not to crush someone making them afraid of a move of God. Although, I've known a few, very few, who would not listen to instruction. They want their emotion.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Sarah

lol. I would be interested in hearing all about this, Esaias!

I know, right? Had to have freaked out more than the preacher.