So good to hear from you…a very pleasant surprise. Let me know your address and I will send you an autographed copy of PENTECOST REVISITED.

Donna and I are in good health and staying very busy. I am still involved in a mission in Ukraine where we have an orphanage established.

Warmly in Christ,
Glenn Brown

I was saved in your church, and baptized by you in that little hot tub in the back. I’d like to get an autographed copy. I look forward to reading the book. Thanks so very much for saying this. I have always felt that it was unfair to ‘make’ people try to do something that wasn’t coming naturally. I felt that nobody was being edified by some of the ‘tongues’ that were being spoken in different churches, so I kind of wandered away from Pentecostal and AG churches. Yet, I’ll never forget the Sunday night in Faith Chapel around 1989 when an evangelist was preaching on the passage where Peter and the Apostles were in a house that was shaken. Just then, Faith Chapel began to shake: it was an Earth Quake! Some of the people were afraid, but you and most of the faithful were overjoyed. What a beautiful sign from God it seemed, just as he said the words and the place started shaking.

Well, I hope you are in great health. I’ll order a copy. Thanks. Please feel encouraged. I have hope that this gift can be used to bridge instead of divide, and edify (build up) the body of Christ.

A Richard Good just called me and told me of your book. He asked me if I knew you . . . I don’t. He told me that he asked you if you knew me . . . you don’t.

So, I’m delighted to make your acquaintance.

You and I both have an AG background, and we have both written on the issue of Tongues as Evidence. I too take issue with the Classical Pentecostal position.

I’d like to communicate with you more about this topic and about our two books. Please email me at CES@ColumbiaSeminary.edu

Blessings,
Rick Walston, PhD

Thank you for remembering. Much has happened in each of our lives during those intervening years. God is good.

Regarding your comment about “every Spirit baptized person will eventually pray in tongues if they pursue this blessing.” Certainly , that seems to me to be a possibility. However, I would not be dogmatic on this issue for two reasons. (1) Paul, in addressing the diversity of spiritual gifts, indicates that the Spirit does not give to everyone the gift of tongues (I Cor. 12:30). (2) The distribution of gifts is the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit. Only He has clear insight into why the gift of tongues may be withheld. Certainly, it was Paul’s desire that everyone be able to edify himself through praying in tongues he is less than dogmatic that this would (or should) happen.

I will soon have a second edition of PR published. It will contain 40-50 pages of Addenda containing more scriptual insights, answers to questions and further explanatory details. The main body of the book remains essentially the same.

I still have many copies of the first edition to distribute. I have come to realize that I must have personal contact with ministers and churches in order to create desire to read the book. If you have any interest in being part of this
endeavor please let me know. The A/G pastor of one of the largest churches in the Dallas area wants to meet with me so I’m looking forward to that.

I’ll email you copies of short articles that I’ve written recently that will be in the 2nd edition.

Keepin touch. May God abundantly enrich your life with His presence.

Glenn

I am a Pastor now; I was traveling in full time evangelism back then. I just finished your book–couldn’t put it down. I believe every minister should read it. I was blessed by your life story and your theological position on tongues and the controversy over it being the initial evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

I, like you, have enjoyed this gift for 30 years now. The “unbeliever” that tongues was for, in my case, was me! I was a green southern Baptist preacher when I received the gift. It was proof to me that the Holy Spirit was personal, and the gifts were still in operation.

Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has had an impact on my life concerning the baptism of the Spirit. He writes that the baptism of the Spirit is about power for an assignmemt and has nothing to do with holiness. He points out that holiness is dealt with in Ephesians 5:18 where we are commanded to be filled with the Spirit, and that all of the gifts in 1 Corinthians can be counterfeited, yet a holy life cannot. There are many baptisms in the Spirit, referring to Acts 2 and 4. The baptism in the Spirit is all about God. He chooses the place, the time, and the manifestation. The filling with the Spirit, “be filled with the Spirit…” is the responsibility of man. We do this through prayer, reading and studying God’s word, fellowship with believer’s, praying in the Spirit, Communion, ect.

I’ve never believed speaking in tongues was the initial evidence. I do believe every Spirit baptised person will eventually pray in tongues if they pursue this blessing. Anyway, I have rambled on too much. Just wanted to get your perspective on this thought.

Your book was a blessing, and I am sure I will re-read it many times and use it as a reference. Thank you for your boldness, your conviction and honesty, and thank you for your love for the body of Christ. I know you have paid a price for your convictions, but when I read your book I could see your gentleness and love for the Assemblies of God and for the church as a whole. Thank you!

In Christ,
Mike Stevens

Hope you are feeling better after the CFGC Conference. I sat right behind you and shook your hand when you completed your presentation. I was hoping to to talk to you, but you departed. I gleaned many great insights at the Conference.

I am from the Calvary Chapel line and serving in the Army Reserve. I would like to talk to you, if possible. It would be brief.

Blessings in Christ,
Verfnon Smith

I have completed an article for CURTANA. It’s about 2300 words. Shall I email it to you?

Warm regards,

Glenn