Speaking in Tongues for non Catholics

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About 5 years ago I started attending a Pentalcostal Church that was very anti Catholic. They believed that you have to be Baptized by full immersion and that you would then be given the gift of speaking in tongues. I regret that I let them Baptize me but never spoke in tongues afterwards. I only stayed for about 9 months then returned to the Catholic Church. They also believed that some of them were given the gift of healing, interpretaqtions of tongues, prophecy. My question is why would God give them these gifts if they are not in the true Church (Catholic). They are all convinced they are in the right Church. This Church was set up by a guy in the 1960’s.
 
Anne_G said:
About 5 years ago I started attending a Pentalcostal Church that was very anti Catholic. They believed that you have to be Baptized by full immersion and that you would then be given the gift of speaking in tongues. I regret that I let them Baptize me but never spoke in tongues afterwards. I only stayed for about 9 months then returned to the Catholic Church. They also believed that some of them were given the gift of healing, interpretaqtions of tongues, prophecy. My question is why would God give them these gifts if they are not in the true Church (Catholic). They are all convinced they are in the right Church. This Church was set up by a guy in the 1960’s.
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I’m kind of curious which denomination you attended because no Pentecostal church I’ve ever attended has ever claimed that water baptism is immediately accompanied by speaking in tongues.

Also, why wouldn’t Christians outside the Catholic Church be graced with the gifts of tongue and prophecy?
 
Its an Australian Church called the Revival Centre International.
 
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Its an Australian Church called the Revival Centre International.
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They’re definitely an unorthodox group. Also strangely they’re proponents of British Israelism and that tongues are necessary for salvation.

They are definitely outside the mainstream of Pentecostal theology.
 
Anne_G said:
About 5 years ago I started attending a Pentalcostal Church that was very anti Catholic. They believed that you have to be Baptized by full immersion and that you would then be given the gift of speaking in tongues. I regret that I let them Baptize me but never spoke in tongues afterwards. I only stayed for about 9 months then returned to the Catholic Church. They also believed that some of them were given the gift of healing, interpretaqtions of tongues, prophecy. My question is why would God give them these gifts if they are not in the true Church (Catholic). They are all convinced they are in the right Church. This Church was set up by a guy in the 1960’s.
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Even though Pentecostals do not have a valid Trinitarian baptism, it could be argued they do have the baptism of desire. The disposition of a person’s heart matters as we see with the good thief on the cross.

Pax
 
The real question is that these gifts are in the true Church (forget healing because no-one will know when that is supposed to happen or how), but it hasn’t seen how to bring them out.

They may look a bit different from how they looked in that cult.
 
Lenten_ashes said:
Even though Pentecostals do not have a valid Trinitarian baptism, it could be argued they do have the baptism of desire. The disposition of a person’s heart matters as we see with the good thief on the cross.

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That’s not true. Only United Pentecostal reject the Trinity and do not have a valid Baptism. Most other Pentecostal and Charismatic groups do.
 
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