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Speaking in Tongues Resurfaces as Southern Baptist Controversy

From an article of the same title by Adelle M. Banks of the Religion News Service on beliefnet:

The practice of speaking in tongues is again brewing controversy in the Southern Baptist Convention. Last year, the denomination's International Mission Board adopted a policy that forbids considering missionary candidates who use a "private prayer language." Now, an Arlington, Texas, pastor and trustee of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has written to Southern Baptist President Frank Page to request that the issues of "spiritual gifts, private prayer language and speaking in tongues" be addressed in the denomination's statement of faith. The Rev. Dwight McKissic previously discussed the issue in a chapel sermon at the seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and criticized the mission board policy. "I pray in tongues in my private prayer life and I'm not ashamed of that," he said on Aug. 29. "I'm thankful for that." Traditionally, Southern Baptists have opposed Pentecostal practices, including speaking in tongues, but some pastors and churches have embraced a more charismatic worship style.

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