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I'm currently reading a book. It's called, 'The Walk of the Spirit The Walk of Power' by Dave Roberson and in it he says that praying in tongues is the key to opening up the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Has anyone read this book? Is it correct about what it says?
Spare yourself the effort. (former Roberson admirer here, met him personally, sat in his sessions, read his stuff etc etc, almost 30 years ago)
Charismania is a dangerous place to get pawned by the spiritual while they lay hands on you for the location of yer wallet.
There are no formulas that one can employ to manipulate God in Christ. It can't be done.
Read His Word, listen, ask, seek, knock, TRUST.
God in Christ is infinitely more interesting than we could ever imagine.
He can not be outguessed.
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I'm going to finish the book, especially as I haven't reached the "How to effectively pray in tongues" section yet...but I just feel kind of weird about what I'm reading sometimes. I guess it's what you said.
For example, some of his statements like praying in tongues "qualifies you to fulfill God's call on your life" or that it 'releases' the power of the Holy Spirit.
Anyone else with insights into Dave Robersons' ministry on tongues?
I'm currently reading a book. It's called, 'The Walk of the Spirit The Walk of Power' by Dave Roberson and in it he says that praying in tongues is the key to opening up the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Has anyone read this book? Is it correct about what it says?
That's how far our contemporary church has fallen from the standard that existed in the early Church.
So those who counsel that using the gift of tongues causes damage or induces churches to get money out of people, their counsel is foolishness and nonsense, and is a blatant disregard for God's inspired Word given through Paul to the Corinthians, and to all who are called by Christ everywhere (this is said at the start of 1 Corinthians).
Speaking in tongues is used by some church leaders and denominations 'on the fringe' in order to identify themselves as having the Holy Spirit inside them in the same way as it was in the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. But when we read Acts 2, we find that the 'tongues' which they spoke were unknown only to the apostles themselves. The hearers identified every language they used in their message as the hearers' native tongues.
I've known this 'speaking in tongues' belief to have caused actions which were, to put it bluntly, fraudulent. I was familiar with the Catholic Missal when it was still written in Latin. One of my fellow Christians, who was also familiar with the Missal, went to a meeeting circa 1971 where a traveling evangelist was speaking. But the way it worked was that the evangelist would speak in an unknown tongue, and then one of the preachers with the gift of translating tongues would interpret what the evangelist had said.
What the evangelist did was quote from a section of the Catholic Missal (he had obviously memorized it), and then repeat those pages two or three times. But afterwards the preacher got up and 'translated' what the evangelist had said as telling the people that God had blessed their particular denomination, the laity was to obey without question whatever commands the heirarchy of that church gave them, and they were to see all those who weren't members of that church as condemned by God himself. And there were quite a few people there who accepted that propaganda as having come from the Holy Spirit himself, since it was a 'translation' of what they believed was the Holy Spirit's speaking through the evangelist in a tongue which the hearers didn't recognize, except for my fellow Christian.
biblical tongues has nothing to do with what we see in charismatic circles today.I'm currently reading a book. It's called, 'The Walk of the Spirit The Walk of Power' by Dave Roberson and in it he says that praying in tongues is the key to opening up the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Has anyone read this book? Is it correct about what it says?
Praying in tongues is not the tongues from the Bible. May I give you a tip. Instead of making your mind up after reading the book. Pray about it and read and study the word of God then make your mind up.Thanks for the comments guys. I'm still reading the book and finding a lot of it quite compelling. I haven't reached the part on how to pray in tongues yet, so I will reserve my judgement until after I've finished the book. I definitely think speaking in tongues is a biblical concept, i'm just wondering how to interpret it at this point.
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What the evangelist did was quote from a section of the Catholic Missal (he had obviously memorized it), and then repeat those pages two or three times. But afterwards the preacher got up and 'translated' what the evangelist had said as telling the people that God had blessed their particular denomination, the laity was to obey without question whatever commands the heirarchy of that church gave them, and they were to see all those who weren't members of that church as condemned by God himself. And there were quite a few people there who accepted that propaganda as having come from the Holy Spirit himself, since it was a 'translation' of what they believed was the Holy Spirit's speaking through the evangelist in a tongue which the hearers didn't recognize, except for my fellow Christian.
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