Under the new rules,
speaking in tongues does not disqualify missionary candidates. Too much
emphasis on charismatic gifts, like speaking in tongues, could still
lead to discipline
“…within the professing Christian church at least as many people need deliverance from evil spirits as need healing from sickness and that’s about eighty per cent.” (Derek Prince’s – `How Jesus dealt with demons’.) James told us that Christians can be influenced by a wisdom that is earthly sensual demonic and where exist confusion and every evil work
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1 CORINTHIANS 14:37
If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him
acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of
the Lord.“…within the professing Christian church at least as many people need deliverance from evil spirits as need healing from sickness and that’s about eighty per cent.” (Derek Prince’s – `How Jesus dealt with demons’.) James told us that Christians can be influenced by a wisdom that is earthly sensual demonic and where exist confusion and every evil work
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38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
International Mission Board Drops Ban on Speaking in Tongues
New rules also loosen restrictions on baptism, divorce, and parents of teens.
Bob Smietana/ May 14, 2015
Image: IMB
International Missionary Board President David Platt
For
more than a decade, the Southern Baptist Convention’s International
Mission Board (IMB) disqualified candidates who spoke in tongues or who
had been baptized in churches that disagreed with the convention’s view
of baptism.
Similar rules barred divorced people or those with teenagers from being missionaries.
That changed Wednesday, when the IMB’s trustees, at the prompting of
their new president David Platt, approved a new, simplified set of rules
for the agency’s more than 4,800 missionaries.
Missionary candidates must affirm the doctrines found in the Baptist Faith and Message
statement of beliefs, be baptized by immersion, be a member of a SBC
church, and demonstrate an “intimate, growing relationship with Christ.”
Previous rules required would-be missionaries to have been baptized in
an SBC church, or in a church that held SBC-like beliefs about baptism.
Candidates baptized in a church that did not believe in eternal
security—the idea that true Christians can’t lose their salvation even
if they sin--or a church that views baptism is a sacrament were
rejected.
The new rules allows those who were baptized by immersion and who are members of an SBC church to be candidates.
The changes also address the question of charismatic worship and prayer
practices, which have been controversial for Southern Baptists. Under
the previous rules, candidates who spoke in tongues or had a “private
prayer language” were barred.
Under the new rules, speaking in tongues does not disqualify missionary
candidates. Too much emphasis on charismatic gifts, like speaking in
tongues, could still lead to discipline.
“IMB may still end employment for any missionary who places ‘persistent
emphasis on any specific gift of the Spirit as normative for all or to
the extent such emphasis becomes disruptive’ to Southern Baptist
missions work,” according to a FAQ about the new rules posted by IMB.
Divorced candidates have been allowed to serve in short missions. Now
they will be eligible to serve as long-term missionaries, depending on
the circumstances of their divorce and other factors, such as the
culture they will work in.
Parents of teenagers will also be potential candidates. The IMB had
previously disqualified them out of concerns for the challenges that
teens would face by being uprooted and having to move overseas. Now IMB
leaders will decided on a case-by-cases basis whether or not to allow
parents with teens.
“For example, a family considering serving long-term in an isolated
African village may be different than a family considering a one-year
term in London,” says the FAQ.
The changes in rules on baptism and speaking in tongues will likely get
the most attention. They made national headlines when first adopted.
IMB leaders said the baptism and tongues rules, adopted
in 2005, were needed to safeguard the Baptist identity of missionaries
at a time when charismatic and Pentecostal practices were growing.
Tom Hatley, former IMB board chair, told CT in 2006 that some missionary candidates who spoke in tongues—a practice also known by the New Testament term glossolalia—claimed to be getting direct revelation from God.
“That's one reason that Southern Baptists have been suspicious of
glossolalia," Hatley told CT in 2006. "If somebody believes they're
getting direct divine revelation from God, obviously that's claiming an
equality with Scripture that we would not allow.
THE BIBLE COMMANDS THAT ALL CHRISTIANS PURSUE LOVE AND DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS. TO PREACH OTHERWISE IS THE PREACH HERESY! YES SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ARE HERETICS!
Ebert said that if a NAMB missionary’s views on speaking in tongues became disruptive—if, for example, they claimed it was necessary for all Christians—that would be an issue. Otherwise, the board tries to stick with the beliefs approved by the SBC.
1 CORINTHIANS 14:1 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.
39 Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues.
40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
When the great missionary to the gentiles Apostle Paul stated I wish you all spoke with tongues he of course claimed it was necessary for all Christians. And according to Southern Baptist Ebert speaking in tongues became disruptive— Hogwash!
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