How is a Pentecostal church different from other Christian churches?
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Pentecostal Church Differences
Pentecostal is actually a reference to the individual who has been born again and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which Pentecostals believe is evidenced by speaking in tongues. They define speaking in tongues as uttering sounds which are not in any human language, but they are considered the language of angels. It is also used as a reference to their churches.


Pentecostal Church
Pentecostals believe that the present Pentecostal movement, which features the speaking in tongues, is in fulfillment of Bible promise. They maintain that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and during the first century did not exhaust the miraculous visible manifestations of the Spirit. They interpret the early and latter rains, mentioned at James 5:7 (AV), as applying to the outpouring of God's spirit. Believing that the outpouring of God's Spirit in the first century was the early rain, they conclude that there must also be a latter rain. The Pentecostal movement, they claim, is a result of the outpouring of this latter rain.

The Baptists and other Christian Churches however, note that Acts Chapter 2 states that when the speaking in tongues on which the Pentacostal Movement is based took place, "every man heard them speak in his own language." So the other Christians believe the "tongues" were actual human languages. Also, According to 1Corinthians 14:27, 28, tongues are not to be spoken in a church unless there is an interpreter. Tongues may be gifted even in Baptist Churches; however, there must be an interpreter or else it is not considered to be a gift. Also, they are not any part of a requirement for salvation.

It is a distinctive teaching of the Pentecostal movement that speaking in tongues always accompanies the baptism with the Holy Spirit. All persons have this tongues experience as evidence of baptism, Pentecostals say, but not everyone afterward receives the gift of tongues. This Pentecostal teaching, however, does not have Scriptural backing.

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***coughs, I'll take playing with snakes anyday next to speaking in tongues. Thats just creepy and my crazy family is pretty good at it. They have their own language for crissakes.**

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