"speaking in tongues is the initial, empirical accompaniment to Spirit baptism. My purpose in writing this article is to commend the gift to fellow believers by sharing something that happened in my life three years after I first experienced speaking in tongues. For example, the Nicene Creed confesses the clear biblical truth that Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, is "of one substance with the Father." 4. 5:25; Acts 20:28). Their instructions were to just start uttering nonsense and then eventually the Spirit will take over or someone will understand you and interpret what you are saying. A distinguishing feature of theCharismatic movementis that people adopted the theology and practices of Pentecostal Christianity and stayed in theirmainline church. Unlike Catholics, Lutherans do not believe it is proper or scriptural to offer prayers to saints or to view Mary as in any sense a "mediator" between God and human beings. Christenson, a Lutheran pastorin San Pedro, California, was convicted that Jesus Christ still heals people today, like in the Gospels. You might find the 1989 CTCR report on The End Times to be helpful on this topic, especially the chart at the end of the report. The answer to these rhetorical questions is "no." Continuationists believe that the biblical instruction on spiritual gifts is as relevant today as it was when it was written. However, the principal differences between the churches have to do with such teachings as sanctification, Baptism, the Lord's Supper, the gifts of the Holy Spirit (Baptism of the Holy Spirit and tongues), and the end times. Some Christians have never heard another person speak in tongues. The other gifts like discernment, healing etc.were part of the "schlock". To take a single example, Lutherans believe that in the Sacrament of the Altar (Communion) Christs body and blood are truly present in the bread and wine of the Lords Supper, but they do not accept the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, which teaches that the elements are permanently changed from the substances of bread and wine to the substances of body and blood. The so called evidence of this baptism in the Holy Spirit is the ability to speak in tongues. 18), The Roman Catholic view "that persons 'cooperate' in preparing for and accepting justification by consenting to God's justifying action" (para. The Corinthians were using the gift of speaking in different languages not to unify the body, but to tear it apart, for, says Paul, if I don't know the meaning of a language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me. [1 Corinthians 14:11] In such misuse the people who know each other and speak the same language were being driven apart (remember God' judgment at the tower of Babel). Peter preaches a sermon and three thousand new converts are . (Also seeLutherans vs. Episcopalians: Whats the Difference?