(Acts 2:4, 1 Cor 12:10) Many contemporary Christians from all denominational backgrounds, belive that the phenomenon of “speaking with tongues” (languages not formerly learned or known by the speaker) may accompany the occasion of a person’s initial surrender to the fullness of the Holy Spirit. In classical Pentecost tradition, this experience is excepted, and is doctrinally expressed in the words, “The initial physical evidence of the baptism with the Holy Spirit is speaking with other tongues”. Other Christians and many Charistmatics who do not accept this doctrinal terminology still apply its fundamental implications in their practice.
