I'm a lifelong member and a returned missionary. I've always been under the impression that the speaking in tongues as I've observed at pentecostal churches is not in keeping with church doctrine and the Biblical directives contined in Corinthians. Recently I read in a "this day in church history" that I receive about early church leaders speaking in tongues in non-foreign mission contexts. There was a translation as the Bible directs but I fail to see the use in such speaking. I would prefer to think of speaking in tongues as the new missionary in Paris suddenly conversing in French despite limited or no preparation in said language. If such a gift existed and was seemingly common among the church in early times, why is such not seen in our meetings today, with appropriate translation?
