"[I] think it's important for us to recognize that the tongues that were spoken of in Acts chapter 2 were clearly authentic foreign languages. And you have a list of those languages in verses nine through verse eleven, of these different tongues in which the Gospel was proclaimed by not only the Apostles but also the others of the one hundred and twenty gathered in the upper room. And those true authentic foreign languages to Jews who did not understand those languages sounded like gibberish, which is why they said they were drunk; but to those who came from all parts of the world and truly did understand those languages, they recognized that nothing less than a genuine, unexplainable, supernatural miracle had taken place. I just think it's important at the outset of Church history that we emphasize that the beginning of the Church was authenticated by a true supernatural unexplainable miracle, and not by a bunch of guys speaking gibberish. [...] That will become relevant when we get to Pentacostal history in the twentieth century, but for now, we'll leave it there."
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"In Acts chapter 6, we have deacons chosen, and this is because it has become too much for the Apostles to handle all of the day to day details of the Church. And I do think we have something of a paradigm here for the offices that are established and the way that those offices are to function. You have the Apostles functioning really as the elders/pastors of the Church, and it says there that their goal, their job, is to devote themselves to prayer and the preaching of the Word. And your job as an elder and a pastor is likewise to devote yourself to prayer and to the preaching and teaching of the Word. You bring alongside you faithful men as deacons who are willing to oversee the administrative tasks within Church ministry. I think you see that outlined here in Acts 6, and I think you see it fleshed out in Paul's epistles to Timothy and to Titus. But oftentimes the reason pastors experience what is called 'burnout' [...] is because they're not sticking to their God-ordained role of prayer and preaching, they're trying to do what God has designed deacons to do."
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