Free Will Baptist Beliefs On Tongues. As jacob said, most baptist (myself included) believe that tongues is not a gift that is given to people anymore. As an organization, we provide a covering for all clergy and churches of the pfwb.
The unscriptural practice of speaking in tongues will not be tolerated in the smithfield free will baptist church. Our main ministry departments in equipping churches are missions, discipleship and pastoral. I know of two free will baptist churches right now, one who believes in women in the ministry and one that doesn't.
The doctrine is a mixture of baptist (specifically, free will baptist) and pentecostal beliefs.
The free will baptists also believe like the pentecostals, that there is a baptism of the holy ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. One of the explicit requirements for tongues in the church is there has to be someone to interpret the tongues before they should be spoken in the church. As baptists, they believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. The doctrine is a mixture of baptist (specifically, free will baptist) and pentecostal beliefs.