Discuss Theology

I thought, today,  about why so many contemporary western evangelicals are either non-commital or closet speakers and thinkers about tongues.  I think the primary driving force is a desire to be respectable and not lose jobs, pastorates, speaking engagements and writing contracts.  I believe, that for some, the reason is truly exegetical, hermeneutical and principial.  The latter exegetical group trail the former respectability group, numerically.  This is true only in the contemporary west.  I recommmend reading Philip Jenkins on The Next Christendom for a view of the future.