What Can We Do To Pursue Spiritual Gifts? This question comes as a query no doubt from someone who is looking for and expects to receive miraculous gifts of the Spirit. The language of the question mirrors 1 Corinthians 14:1. "Purse love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy." The influences of futurism and Pentecostalism have made the desire for the practice of spiritual gifts appear to be a valid claim. And, because people believe that religion in general is something that is "better felt than told" it answers the call of man to have an experience to ...

I would first begin by defining "tongues" as used in the Bible. The meaning of speaking in tongues in the Bible is "language," implying a foreign language. It is nothing mysterious, just a simple, communicable language. You may recall up to the time of the tower of Babel, all men spoke one language. God created multiple languages so that men would be scattered, unable to communicate as one, like they did originally and therefore render them incapable of continuing to build the tower due to this language barrier. Hence, they were scattered throughout the earth according to the commonalities of language. This created a practical problem. How do we communicate with people who ...