John Piper on Prophecy and Tongues

“. . . there are people who have abused the gift of prophecy by delivering their thoughts in a way that puts the other person in an impossible situation . . . frankly in my experience I am tempted to despise prophesyings because they have been abused.”

“I don’t buy the pentecostal historical teaching that you must speak in tongues in order to signify that you are filled with the Spirit or even that you are a Christian . . . I see no reason for arguing that anything has changed between the age of the apostles and our age that that gift has disappeared . . .I don’t believe that I have ever authentically spoken in tongues . . . I don’t feel guilt for not having it, I feel like I am submitting to my father in heaven.”