Featured Speaking in Tongues ... Does YOUR Church Allow it?

If you need....

to be told, it taint worth answering! Search your soul, and find the answer from within! :tear:

 

Okay...

 

And how...

....do you know that I don't? This is a debate forum, brother, and apparently my views are debatable.

I happen to believe that there are issues that separate Baptists, and like my beliefs, those issues that everyone holds to are HIGHLY debatable too!

Look at the rage that surfaces when someone speaks about free will verse's choice! Armenian versus Calvin! How do those folks know they have it right? Isn't a lot of theology debatable and up to the individual?

The truth is, freewill or not, we will all be in heaven when it is ALL said and done!

The issue of what I believe, and you don't believe about the gifts is not going to change the fact that we are all saved by grace. And if I am teaching that we must be born again, and water baptized, isn't that the crux of the Gospel message? The other things are all debatable, such as what happens when we are filled with the Spirit; how does one know they've been filed with the Spirit Does the Spirit fill us at the time we are saved, or is it a separate event? Should we raise our hands when we sing? Is it okay to shout out an Amen! when we hear something that inspires us during a sermon! Does your church have an alter, or not? Do you have alter-calls or not! Do you call your pastoral board of elected leaders Deacons, or Board Members? Are we going to be raptured before the tribulation, during the tribulation or after it? Does your church require a person to rejoin a church when they reocate, or can they transfer membership? Does your church repeat the Lord's Prayer and, or recite some creeds in each service? Should a pastor be allowed to refer to themselves as Pastor or Reverend? Is it acceptable for a pastor to have been divorced, as well as deacons? Should a women be allowed to preach or head a church as a pastor?

The list can go on forever, and the truth is, there are a wide variety of answers and Scriptural interpretation and those who believe one way or the other will fight you to the end to prove their way is the ONLY way! So, how does one denominational group KNOW they are right, when they come up against another denominational group! Are they all wrong, or are they somewhat wrong? Does anyone really know?

I don't. But some on this board are die hard in their leanings and teaching, and the way they see the issue is debatable, and it is not any more or anyless similar to those who call themselves pentecostal or even charismatics! To each their own.

I honestly believe all that matters is that we believe that God sent His Son to die for us. That we have to repent and ask His Son to come and live in us (and by the way, how do we really know that He is living in us?). That we follow Him in baptism. And that we believe the Bible is his infallible book of instruction to us, and that it is 100% true, or as I say, I have a Biblical World View of the Word, and that means if God said it...it is fact and not arguable! Even though we all have our preferences s to how we see and believe certain issues. At least we all beieve we must be born again, and we believe in how we are born again! The rest of the walk is going to be based on faith, and faith in how we interpret that Word. That is where I come from. If what I believe ruffles the feathers of some, I am sorry, but, I have to be true unto what I believe He has given to me! And I think anyone on this board is believing the same, even though there are different groups, and tons of HEAYED debate going on all over this board, the only thing that really matters is that we have been born again and trusting in Him and His death and resurrection to bring us to Glory!

I'll be ther, right or wrong on some issues, and I beieve you, Judith, and a bunch of others who think I have gone astray, will be there in the end. And if that isn't true, than we all have a problem. :BangHead:
And when it comes down to it, the only thing God requires of us is that we have been born again. At least, that is what my Bible tells me! :applause:

 

Can I just say this...

We don't! But just like the major differences that separate the majority of good Baptists around the world, how does one side over the other know that their way is of God and not the devil?

They don't....I don't...and you don't. We will not know until we get to our just reward, and then it will be too late. That is why I don't lose sleep over all these denominational differences of opinion.

To be honest with you, as much a FREAK as I appear to you Batpist, I am the same freakish person to the pentecostals and charismatics. These folks can't see me taking up with you Baptists.

As for me, I have seen fit to take the best of what God has shown me over the years or all denominations, and allowed God to remold me into something that is a little unique, and able to communicate with folks from all sides, except for die hard Catholics, and the cults like Mormons, JW's, Scientolotigists, etc.

I am quite comfrotable with the mixture of truths that I hold to. Like the star of the old Hunter television cop show used to say, "It works for me!"

God bless you
. I am rejoicing with you and for you that you found what is right for you when it comes to AoG and Baptists! At least, like me, you have a new found peace that allows you to love Him, fellowship with others, and walk the path as well as you can!