A Question for Penticostals (fwd)

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Saw this in soc.religion.christian.  If anyone is moved to answer,
please direct your message to the inquirer srb3323@NebrWesleyan.edu,
though Cc'ing your response here would be just fine too.

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Subject: A Question to Penticostals
Date: 12 Feb 1997 22:33:09 -0500
From: "Scott R. Brewer" <srb3323@NebrWesleyan.edu>
Organization: Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE USA
Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian


As a Christian that comes from a rather quiet tradtition I have had a
question about Penticostal services that has troubled me for awhile. In
Acts when the disciples are speaking in tounges it is to preach the
word of Christ to people who did not understand Hebrew or Greek.

Understnading that, why do modern day people, in assemblies made up of
people speaking the same language, do people speak in tounges? I find
the tradition interesting and certainly much more spirit-filled than
most of the services I have been a part of, yet I would like to have
more information on the motivation for the practice.

Please send your replies to: srb3323@NebrWesleyan.edu

Scott R Brewer
Nebraksa Wesleyan University