Speaking in Tongues, 7 Crucial Questions by Joseph Dillow.
One of the tragedies of Christian experience is that many never find a meaningful walk with the Lord Jesus.
The charismatic movement has suggested that the answer is to receive the “Baptism of the Holy Spirit” and “speak in other tongues” - and it is this wholesome emphasis on “more” and a “deeper life” which gave the author his appreciation for this movement.
However, the question here is whether of not this experience comes through a post-conversion experience of the Holy Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongue.
As the reader prepares to engage in this book, the author wishes for you to adopt the attitude of considering the possibility that there is no such experience promised to believers in the New Testament.
In the pages you read there will be the suggestion that there is some Biblical considerations which do lend their support to this belief.
Yet there are also some powerful indications in Scripture that the gifts of tongues, prophecy, miracles, etc, were temporary gifts present in the Church only in the First Century.
At the time of writing the author could not find any other books that attempted to detail the full range of Biblical evidence for the temporary nature of miraculous gifts, hence the reason for this book.
Yet whether of not the evidence contained in this little volume is compelling enough to believe, it is up to the individual reader to decide from themselves.
