Pentecostal Man’s Glossolalia Echos NBA Rosters
MURFREESBORO, TN – When new believer Gentry Tate attended Murfreesboro Assembly of God’s Friday Night Signs and Wonders meeting, he wasn’t expecting to make use of his acute knowledge of professional basketball. However, when traveling preacher Morgan Sheppard gave the altar call for those who wanted to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, Tate turned to the NBA for guidance. “He laid hands on me, and I didn’t want to let him down, so I spouted the weirdest gibberish I could come up with: &8216;Kirelenko, Mutombo, Potapenko, you name it’. I guess it worked - everyone around me praised Jesus.†(read the rest of the story…)
Posted on December 31st, 2004 by Paul
Filed under: What I'm Thinking
So, are the articles at this website (holyobserver.com) all tongue in cheek? This one was particularly funny to me as I still have questions about the gift of “tongues”. The article at the Holy Observer about the Amway church was also quite comical.