May 23, 2010 – Acts 2:5 – 2:36

We just had a portion of this reading Sunday.  The gift of tongues is one that I still don’t fully understand, but did have a very good discussion about it with the teens last Wed.  One of the things that I was thinking about along with our discussion is the fact that if you have those that speak in tongues, you must have those that can interpret it.  It appears that this gift that the Apostles received was a special type of tongues, so that everyone understood it or the gift of understanding was given to the crowd.  I would go with the latter, just because we read later how those in the crowd received the Holy Spirit, so they did not have the gifts when the Apostles were speaking.  We also see Peter taking a leadership role here as well.