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Originally Posted by violet
Cliff, I agree with you, but he may belong to a church that teaches you HAVE to speak in tongues in order to attain salvation. |
I doubt that this is the case with God mademefunky. The reason being that those who teach "tongues" as salvational don't accept those into their assembly positions unless they have satifacterly demonstrated it.
In other words he would have to have demonstrated speaking or praying in tongues before he would be allowed to participate with the worship team.
There are many that while not doctrinaly stating this
insinuate that speaking in tongues is evidence of being closer to God, or
hint that those who do are better than those who don't. Or
imply that it is somehow salvational in importance.
What this results in is people struggling to demonstrate sincerely and truthfuly what some have imitated in order to impress others. Sincere people ( like Godmademefunky) who doubt their faith or their salvation or even more important God because they are being pushed to accept and demonstrate something that isn't there.