Lay Archbishop: “I Pray in Tongues Every Day”

Justin Welby, the Anglican lay Canterbury archbishop, told the Christian radio station, Premier that “In my own prayer life, and as part of my daily discipline, I pray in tongues every day – not as an occasional thing, but as part of daily prayer” at 5am.

He added that given the early time in the morning “it’s not usually an immensely ecstatic moment.”

Welby also said he expected to hear through other people “words of knowledge or prophecies”. Both are common in Pentecostal and “charismatic” evangelical churches.

Welby is associated with the Evangelical wing of the Anglicans. He is a close friend of Nicky Gumbel, vicar at the leading English Evangelical church Holy Trinity Brompton in west London, and the architect of the Alpha course during which people are encouraged to speak in tongues.

Picture: Justin Welby, © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, CC BY-SA, #newsRfcqnhlwqc

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GJA Taylor

Jan 23, 2019

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CarolineA03

Jan 23, 2019

According to Sacred Scripture, "Praying in Tongues" is not authorised as Saintly unless there is a foreign person present who can understand it........ The Disciples spoke in tongues, yet these were foreign languages, to enable the foreigners present to learn of Christ.
So why would this man NEED to speak in tongues - when he is the only person present in his room? This is NOT what is defined in S. Scripture as "Speaking in Tongues"
Some heretical ordained prelates DO talk a lot of garbled nonsense which nobody can make head or tail of - - but to call it "speaking in tongues" is ridiculous.