What are the gifts of tongues and interpretation of tongues?
“The gift of tongues is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the body of Christ (A) to speak to God in a language they have never learned and/or (B) to receive and communicate an immediate message of God to His people through a divinely appointed utterance in a language they have never learned.” (Wagner, Your spiritual gifts can help your church grow, p 233) Variety (A) is often called a prayer language, and is probably what Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 14:28. Variety (B) is used along with the gift of interpretation of tongues, which together may be thought of as equivalent to prophecy. (1 Corinthians 14:27,28) “The gift of interpretation is the special ability that God gives to certain members of the body of Christ to make known in the vernacular the message of one who speaks in tongues.” (Wagner, Your spiritual gifts can help your church grow, p 235) Contrary to what Wagner implies above, and to what many conservative evangelicals teach, the gifts of tongues a
