Understanding Tongues

by Doug Batchelor

Publisher:

Doug Batchelor

, 2009

Overview

In Understanding Tongues, Doug Batchelor seeks to clear the air surrounding the gift of tongues. Batchelor looks through Scripture to find just what we should expect from the Holy Spirit, and whether speaking in tongues is meant for all believers. Batchelor’s informative volume addresses these and other issues surrounding spiritual gifts.

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Key Features

• Examines the gift of tongues in Scripture
• Provides insight into a complicated and controversial issue
• Uses practical and accessible language

Contents

Top Highlights

“From this example it should be very clear that the gift of tongues was given to communicate the gospel in different existing languages of the world.” (source)

“He promised to give them a unique gift from the Holy Spirit. It was a miraculous, supernatural ability to speak foreign languages they had not formerly studied or known for the purpose of spreading the Gospel.” (source)

“Yet out of more than 50 examples in the Bible where God filled His people with the Spirit, only three times is tongues connected with the experience.” (source)

“At least 15 different language groups were represented in the crowd that day (Acts 2:9–11)” (source)

“In 1 Timothy 6:20, he specifically mentions ‘avoiding profane and vain babblings.’ And in 2 Timothy 2:16, Paul repeats that counsel: ‘But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.’” (source)

Product Details

• Title: Understanding Tongues
• Author: Doug Batchelor
• Publisher: Doug Batchelor
• Print Publication Date: 2009
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 32
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Pentecostalism; Glossolalia
• Resource ID: LLS:NDRSTNDNGTNGS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:44:32Z

About Doug Batchelor

Doug Batchelor (born March 9, 1957) is an evangelist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and author of several books including The Richest Caveman. His primary ministry is Amazing Facts – a worldwide television and radio broadcast ministry based in Sacramento, California. He also pastors the Sacramento Central Seventh-day Adventist Church. Batchelor is the son of the Florida aviation tycoon and philanthropist George Batchelor and the Hollywood film critic, actress and songwriter Ruth Batchelor.