Quote (Dune1 @ Jun 30 2014 02:06am)
What is the purpose of your church speaking in tongues? Is there also an interpreter present when tongues are being spoken?
What is your definition of "prophecy"? How does your church prophesy?
If these questions were already asked, my apologies. I didn't read through the entire thread.
Which is a false doctrine. Unrepentant sin can separate you from God. We also see people in the bible who willingly choose to leave God. Will God leave us? no. Will people leave God? yes. Whether through action or inaction.
To answer your first question...
Tounges: we believe there are 2 types of tounges: 1 is a tongue to be interpreted and the other is a personal prayer language.
The one that is widely accepted is the belief of one that is interpreted. During corporate tounges, someone tells whoever is leading and then goes up in front of everyone and shares it. Then people who believe they have an interpretation come up and tell the leader, not the one who spoke it originally, and the leader attempts to get a general idea of the interpretation which he then shares.
The other I believe is more common but less spoken about and that is a prayer language.
1 Corinthians 14: 28 If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.
A prayer language is meant to edify oneself. They are praying by the Spirit, the prayer does not understand what he is saying. I am not the most experienced in this topic but that is the general idea.
Prophecy in its rawest form is listening to God and saying the words. That is who the prophets were...they heard God and spoke it. In our church we encourage people to prophes over each other. We ask God a question or ask God what is on his heart and we listen. If we hear a verse, or see a picture or anything like that, then we share it with the person we asked about. When learning how to do it we tell people not to tell people: who they are going to date, not a specific point of time, or what job should they do. Prophecy in the Church is meant to edify and uplift believers.
To answer the unrepentant sin comments...
That is a huge question: can someone jump out of God's hand....idk. I tried to present that argument as best as possible earlier in the thread. As far as unrepented sin goes...can you remember every bad thing you ever have done? in fact what about the good things? Since our righteous acts typically are for the wrong reasons, wouldn't they also be counted as wrong since our heart wasn't in the right place? So should we forgive every one of our actions? I think God's forgiveness wipes the slate clean and it continuously wipes it clean. There is a long post written on it if you feel like reading through it.
Here is a verse that I see that states that believers with unrepented sin still goes to heaven.
1 Corinthians 3:10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. 11
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.12 If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. 14 If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward.
15 If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.So does unrepented sin affect us? YES! We will feel the separation from God on this side of heaven. Our prayer life, our spiritual fruit and spiritual gifts will be effected.
This post was edited by wofire on Jun 30 2014 02:05am