440 The Beauty Of Spiritual Language

It is perfectly clear that the apostle Paul – not only a university graduate, but also one of history’s most respected thinkers – saw speaking with tongues as desirable and worthy of respect in devotional exercise. As the man who is acknowledged as second only to Jesus Himself in securing the global establishment of Christianity, Paul not only expresses personal gratitude for the continuity and clear significance of such prayer in his own life, but he expressly disallows anyone’s discouragement of the same.