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Do you happen to know the year and reason why the Methodist church stopped speaking in tongues? Researching and thank you in advance for any help you can give me!
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Anonymous
As the Holy Spirit wrote through Paul to the Corinthians, tongues were a sign to unbelieving Israel, as prophesied, warning of pending judgment that came in AD70. The purpose of tongues was completed.
No one has spoken in biblical tongues since the first century.
Anonymous
Duane L Burgess the Bible mentions divers tongues among the gifts given as tge Spirit wills. For you presume to assert that the Spirit does not give this gift? Based on what scripture?
Irenaeus wrote of brethren speaking in tongues in his day around 200 AD.
Anonymous
Duane L Burgess you are wrong sir, with all due respect.
Anonymous
Duane L Burgess I must disagree. The gifts never ceased.
Anonymous
Duane L Burgess resident cessationist
Anonymous
Yes, the Methodist bishops had just went through a time of expelling he holiness faction. They particularly attacked all forms of emotionalism as primitive and due to psychological deficiencies. The leading Methodist writer on this subject was Buckley. Pentecostals were lumped as Holy Rollers and as being an embarrassment. Tongue speakers were expelled from the Methodist Churches as also from other mainstream American Churches.
I remember a sister testifying about being expelled from the Methodist Church for speaking in tongues. That would have been in the thirties or forties. She went outside the Methodist Church and danced on a rock in front of the Church.
Anonymous
Was it ever widespread among the Methodists? Wesley was a Continuationist.
I read about speaking in tongues at a Methodist revival near the University of Georgia in 1801, a quote in _The New Charismatics II_. I have read a quote from a New Light Baptist speaking in tongues from the same era.
Anonymous
Link Hudson Wesley believed but only said about one in a thousand spoke, Thus he believed. (from Scriptural Christianity – a sermon by Wesley).
Anonymous
John Mushenhouse Interesting. I found the quote. He was talking about the early church.
Anonymous
Link Hudson I believe both Wesley and Whitefield spoke of people being in a “trance” at their open air meetings.
Anonymous
Derek Godfrey by a general consensus both Wesley and Whitefield were pre-mil tongue speakers but James Philemon Bowers can confirm this further for Philip Williams who possibly ceased speaking in tongues LTA