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Introduction

These commentaries are the result of my personal experience and study. They reflect my perspective on Christian doctrine—the narrative that shapes a believer’s faith—and how that narrative influences our ability to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Today, Christianity often seems disconnected from the broader cultural conversation—reduced, in many ways, to an inconvenient subculture that increasingly grapples with spiritual diversity and social identity. This growing irrelevance raises a pressing question: why has the Church drifted so far from meaningful engagement with society? What concerns me most is how rarely this issue is addressed. Leadership from the pulpit is more focused on the organisation of the institution itself—an oversight that, in my view, has a direct and damaging effect on the health of the Church.

About Me

My earliest experiences were shaped, but not led, by a Christian view of life—a position that continued for 40 years before I made a personal decision to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. In 2001, I was part of a leadership team that welcomed a new Pastor to our Church. Not long after, we were confronted with a series of theological and relational challenges that ultimately split the congregation in two. It took three subsequent Pastors and many years for the Church to heal from this division. I still recall the sadness, anger, and disillusionment that followed—the sense of confusion—the lingering weight of unanswered questions. Through that experience, I realised two things—that I knew very little about why I believed; and second, that whatever I did know wasn’t truly my own.

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Trevor Strange Trevor Strange

Speaking in Tongues - Part 1

This is the first of two letters discussing whether the "gift of tongues" can be interpreted as a spiritual prayer language, only understood by God.

Natural or learned ability might be interpreted in general as gifts from God, but not all gifts are supernatural, so the focus of this commentary centres on the supernatural gift of speaking a previously unknown language or tongue. As an aside, the interpretation of this unknown language is also referred to as a “supernatural gift”, empowered by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, interpretation emanates from no previous knowledge of the language but the supernatural interpretation is not an end in itself since the purpose is to enable comprehension of the language being spoken. Scripture appears to suggest that the supernatural ability to speak a foreign language is spontaneous and primarily for the benefit of foreigners or pagans, so the question remains, is the gift referring to a spiritual prayer language, or a known dialectic language common the man?

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