We have churches here that teach that too and it’s disturbing. I came out from one such church when I was in college disillusioned and doubting my salvation. It does A LOT of harm!

Some people really don’t know what they’re doing and attempting to live a spiritual life without the ONE who makes it possible, the Holy Spirit.

This makes me think of a passage in the Holy Bible in which Paul writes to the Colossians…

Colossians 2:11-23

11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.

20 Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—

21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”

22 which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

23 These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

The flesh speaking in tongues…and telling others to do the same? A spirit of false humility on the part of those intruding into the things they don’t even understand… that’s how I see this, anyway.

What happened with the gentleman who asked you to say Jesus was your LORD and SAVIOR — did you school him?

He wanted me to prove that Jesus was my Lord and saviour by saying that very verse you mentioned at the beginning of this post, but in tongues!