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That was been known to happen on more occasions than we like to admit. I think it was St Francis of Assisi who had the same experience when he wanted to communicate the gospel in a foreign country, and felt moved to speak in "tongues" and found the people responding to him in the same language...

Like fried cockroaches!

Sorry if I misread your post. Blame it on my reading glasses! :) But it will be interesting to see what comes out of the woodwork as a result of my post.

The measures you took to avoid the event was the word of wisdom you received but didn't know it was a word of wisdom.

Reading into half a verse of Scipture is faulty hermaneutics. The context shows that Paul is referring to when we get to glory after the church age is over, where the supernatural gifts of the Spirit will no longer be needed because we will be having direct fellowship with the Lord. You are...

I have travelled on buses where there were Hindi and Chinese speakers, and during my job as Victim Advisor working through interpreters with Vietnamese victims, it all sounded like gibberish to me. Just because a language sounds like gibberish doesn't mean that it is unintelligible.

Reminds me of when I was invited to lunch at a Chinese restaurant serving traditional Chinese "Yum Cha". I never quite knew what I was eating! I had to trust my Chinese friend about what to choose.

The word of wisdom is a supernatural indication about how to go about something in the most appropriate manner for the circumstances. For instance, a word of knowledge might come to a person about another person being addicted to porn. Because just blurting it out in public could cause more...

That theory is getting a bit tired now. You won't get any Pentecostals and Charismatics believing that. The only people whom you will influence with that notion are the "borderline' folk who are wondering about what tongues is all about. I am a friend. :)

If that has happened, then the AOG is following the same path as many historical Christian movements that had speaking in tongues in their early days, but had it decline through the passage of time.

I don't doubt that God has blessed you with the gift. What I am talking about is a word of knowledge that reveals serious sin that could destroy a person or a church. One has to have wisdom about how to share it. Perhaps a word of knowledge is for oneself, and then the word of wisdom is...

Actually that is what happens in most churches in one form or another, except without the tongues and interpretation. In some churches it's called "the liturgy".

it is interesting that the James reference said that the sick person is the one calling for the elders of the church to pray the prayer of faith to see him raised up. This is quite different from "healing" evangelists having meetings calling on sick people to come forward to join the prayer...

There are two relevant Scriptures to be considered here: We see through a glass darkly, and we have the treasure in earthen vessels. What these Scriptures tell us is that none of us have a perfect take on everything to do with the nature and character of God. Therefore I support tolerance...

I don't know whether I have share this example of a word of knowledge that was not positive for the person receiving it. It concerned a church elder who came forward for prayer and the preacher had a word of knowledge that the married elder was in an adulterous relationship. The preacher knew...

I have no problem with that.

Can't argue with evidence! :)

It was not a simple matter of having a meal with someone from another church, or an unbeliever outside of the church. My church was not exclusive in that sense. If it was just a matter of having a meal with fellow Christians or even non-Christians, then my pastor would have had no problems...

The presence of Jesus and His work through the church follows the same evidence that He presented to the disciples of John the Baptizer when they came and asked Him if He was the One they were expecting. He told them, "The lepers are cleansed, the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear, and...

The written Scriptures come alive when the Holy Spirit interacts with it and His voice speaks through it. This is why unbelievers can read the Bible and it means nothing to them. This is because it is meaningless to them without the indwelling Holy Spirit. What convicts unbelievers of sin...