Texas Seminary Bans Promotion of Speaking in Tongues

[OrangeEmpire]

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Trustees at a Baptist seminary have put it in writing: They will not tolerate any promotion of speaking in tongues on their campus.

The 36-1 vote Tuesday came nearly two months after the Rev. Dwight McKissic of Arlington said during a chapel service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary that he sometimes speaks in tongues while praying.

McKissic, a new trustee at the Fort Worth school, passed the lone dissenting vote on the resolution.

It states: "Southwestern will not knowingly endorse in any way, advertise, or commend the conclusions of the contemporary charismatic movement including private prayer language. Neither will Southwestern knowingly employ professors or administrators who promote such practices."

Seminary President Paige Patterson did not allow a videotape of McKissic's sermon to be posted online or saved in the seminary's archives with the sermons of all chapel speak

This was to good not to pass on!

[CSpindizzy]

I grew up in a Pentecostal denomination and am now in a Baptist church. For some reason Baptists have essentially taken one verse and interpreted that two gifts of the Holy Spirit are 'turned off' while others are not. I'm not sure why people pick and choose but this is one example of that happening.

[OrangeEmpire]

Don't forget handling snakes..................

[CSpindizzy]

Handling snakes and strychnine is a little more broad than Pentecostals. It's Biblical as well....most just choose not to use that method to show their faith.

[OrangeEmpire]

Originally Posted by CSpindizzy

Handling snakes and strychnine is a little more broad than Pentecostals. It's Biblical as well....most just choose not to use that method to show their faith.

Do you like the Bible Belt convenient explaination that Mark 16:17-18 was added to the Bible.

[CSpindizzy]

Most of the modern "explanations" have become political. I can take one verse and go to 10 different denominations and get 10 different explanations...some even offering varying explanations in-house.