{"id":9350,"date":"2017-05-30T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=9350"},"modified":"2017-05-30T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:24:43","slug":"1corinthians-142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/9350\/1corinthians-142\/","title":{"rendered":"1Corinthians 14:2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is it acceptable for the body of Christ to speak in tongues during a prayer meeting to speak in tongues if an interpreter is not present to interpret? And is it ok to speak in tongues simply because the Pastor or prayer coordinator asks us to.\u00a0 Please explain. I just finished reading your book <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a style=\"color:#0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/goingtojesus.com\/gtj_books.html?tname=sit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism&#8221; <\/a><\/span>and could not find the answer. I remain confused. Thank you in advance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Elizabeth S<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Hi Elizabeth.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">First, it is altogether acceptable for the body of Christ to speak in tongues when they come together. \u00a0The fact that &#8220;he who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God&#8221; (1Cor. 14:2), is often used to silence God&#8217;s people, but it is actually a great reason for the body to speak in tongues together. \u00a0After all, are we not all supposed to speak to our heavenly Father when we meet? \u00a0An interpreter is needed only if someone is delivering a message to the assembly in an unknown tongue.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Secondly, I don&#8217;t know what a &#8220;prayer coordinator&#8221; is, so I cannot say what he\/she ought to do. \u00a0It sounds like another one of those useless religious titles that Christians make up so that men can claim authority to do something that the Spirit alone is supposed to do. \u00a0I would ignore instructions from such persons.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Finally, I never had a pastor who would tell the congregation to speak in tongues. The congregation I was raised in did plenty of that without being told to. \u00a0I am a foreigner to the kind of religion you describe, and I feel thankful for that. \u00a0Pray about the religion to which you have submitted your soul.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">I hope that helps. \u00a0God bless you as you continue to seek the knowledge of God. The saints here send you their love.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, Is it acceptable for the body of Christ to speak in tongues during a prayer meeting to speak in tongues if an interpreter is not present to interpret? And is it ok to speak in tongues simply because the Pastor or prayer coordinator asks us to.\u00a0 Please explain. I just finished reading your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}