RNS Clips: Speaking in Tongues Down Among Pentecostals

Our friends over at Christianity Today have Adelle Banks’ story about a Pew poll that shows not as many Pentecostals as previously thought speak in tonuges: From the story: Researchers found that many Pentecostals and charismatics attend worship services where speaking in tongues and other signs of the Holy Spirit are evident. But in six […]

Our friends over at Christianity Today have Adelle Banks’ story about a Pew poll that shows not as many Pentecostals as previously thought speak in tonuges:

From the story:

Researchers found that many Pentecostals and charismatics attend worship services where speaking in tongues and other signs of the Holy Spirit are evident. But in six of the 10 countries surveyed, at least 40 percent of Pentecostals said they never pray or speak in tongues.

“I think that the classic Pentecostal belief that speaking in tongues was the real evidence of the second baptism of the Holy Spirit is, at least in practice, not widely accepted around the world,” said John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum and a longtime observer of religion and politics.

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