Speaking in Tongues

A reader from Burnie, Tasmania asks whether the speaking in tongues in I Corinthians 12 and I Corinthians 14 is the same as in Acts 2. This is a very interesting question. Before Christ's ascension into heaven, Jesus promised His disciples that "they shall speak with new tongues" (Mark 16:17). Here Jesus speaks of "new tongues" in distinction from the Hebrew spoken by the church of the old dispensation and still by the disciples in Jesus' time. This obviously refers to the speaking in tongues...