re satanic tounges in article may athos rutgers edu koberg spot colorado edu allen koberg writes there is dis crepancy even among charismatic organizations as to the proper use of tongues be it revelatory with interpretation for prayer use or for signifying believers which i doubt since any one can do it pentecostals assembly of god church of christ seem to espouse all three neo pentecostals tend to view prayer use and as a sign as the uses speaking in tongues during a service is not usually done by neo pentecostals because for the most part they still attend protestant churches non denominational churches seem to view the use as a sign as merely optional but recommended koberg just a couple of minor corrections here the churches of christ do not usually believe in speaking in tongues in fact many of them are known for being strongly opposed to pentecostal teaching you are probably thinking of church of god in christ the largest african american pentecostal denomination i m not sure what you mean by signifying believers but it should be pointed out that the assemblies of god does not now nor has it ever held that speaking in tongues is the sign that one is a christian the doctrine that traditional pentecostals including the a g maintain is that speaking in tongues is the sign of a second experience after becoming a christian in which one is baptized in the holy spirit that may be what you were referring to but i point this out because pentecostals are frequently labeled as believing that you have to speak in tongues in order to be a christian such a position is only held by some groups and not the majority of pentecostals many pentecostals will quote the passage in mark about these signs following them that believe but they generally do not interpret this as meaning if you don t pactice the signs you aren t saved i know it s hard to summarize the beliefs of a movement that has such diversity but i think you ve made some pretty big generalizations here do neo pentecostals only believe in tongues as a sign and tongues as prayer but not tongues as revelatory with a message i ve never heard of that before in fact i would have characterized them as believing the same as pentecostals except less likely to see tongues as a sign of spirit baptism also while neo pentecostals may not be inclined to speak in tongues in the non pentecostal churches they attend they do have their own meetings and in many cases a whole church will be charismatic ken banner dept of religious studies university of pennsylvania kbanner philae sas upenn edu
