From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxi!rcj1 Newsgroups: net.religion Title: Speaking in TONGUES witness?? Article-I.D.: ihuxi.292 Posted: Tue Feb 22 18:02:35 1983 Received: Wed Feb 23 05:19:29 1983 Reply-To: rcj1@ihuxi.UUCP (RCJ) Let me start out by saying I am in no way a religious person. I attended a Catholic grammer and high school(Grad.'68). But after high school, about the only time I attended church was for a funeral or wedding. My kids have been attending a Pentecostal church for about 7 yrs. Within the last year or so my wife started to attend the same church. And just recently I have been attending on and off. In a recent Sunday service I was kinda just sitting back and observing a prayer segment of the service were everyone starts praying outloud when all of the sudden the Asst. Pastor started to speak in a way I have never heard or saw before!! Now I'm no expert on foreign languages, but I do know the difference between Spanish,French,Italian,Polish and a few others if I heard them but what I heard was neither. He spoke with such intensity and authority that I thought, hey, something's happening here!!! The person is a rather meek type person from talking with him so I thought this somewhat strange. He went on for about 30 sec. and stopped, after which I was kinda in awe of what I just seen and heard. (It gave me goose bumps). Did I witness Speaking in Tongues??? If so, what does it really mean? Comments,opinions anyone??? Send flames to /dev/null please.. Ray, ihuxi!rcj1