The Beauty Of Spiritual Language by Jack Hayford
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Book Reviews of The Beauty Of Spiritual Language
Book Review: INSIGHTFUL!
Summary: 5 Stars
Pastor Jack Hayford has hit a homerun with this book. He not only gives clear biblical evidence for receiving a spiritual language, but also practical understanding for the gift. He gives great insight to the purpose and use of the gift and why it is so important for Christians to receive and use this gift in this day. He writes with grace and understanding, which will help any believer come to a better understanding of the spiritual language. 2 Thumbs Up!
Dr. Daniel Gilbert
Book Review: If you don't understand praying in tongues read this.
Summary: 5 Stars
Jack Hayford has done a fantastic job explaining the phenomenon of speaking and praying in tongues. While Hayford is the pastor of a Foursquare church (a Pentecostal denomination), this book seems to be written for non-Pentecostals. It answers a lot of questions and I highly recommend it.Book Review: excellent read
Summary: 5 Stars
I always trust Jack Hayford. He backed up everything he said with Scripture. Truly blessed by this book. Already having received the gift of Spiritual language, wanted to know more about it. Learned more...still digging.Book Review: Devotional Reading on Tongues
Summary: 4 Stars
Jack Hayford's THE BEAUTY OF SPIRITUAL LANGUAGE is more of a devotional read on speaking in tongues. Hayford likes to use the charismatic phrase, "spiritual language" rather than speaking in tongues although the words do not actually appear in the New Testament. The book dives first into the Pentecostal teaching on the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Hayford then moves away slightly from his Pentecostal heritage to take a more charismatic approach to the initial, physical evidence of Spirit-Baptism but he does believe that every Christian can and should speak in tongues.
The book is not written as a theological argument for tongues and only those from a charismatic experience can truly appreciate Hayford's book. If you are a non-charismatic looking for biblical teaching on Spirit-Baptism or speaking in tongues you will want to look at Howard Ervin, J. Rodman Williams, Stanley Horton, or other Pentecostal scholars. While Hayford has a doctorate, this book is a devotional book.
Book Review: Very Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
My pastor recommended this book and for the life of me I cannot figure out why. I've read other articles by Jack Hayford in the past and he's one of the few charismatics who's scholarship I had some respect for. No more. This book is based almost exclusively on human experience and contains very little exegetcial content. He interprets God's Word in the light of human experience instead of vice versa. He doesn't define his terms, he comes to his argument assuming the legitimacy of tongues speaking today and doesn't make a Biblical case for it as I was hoping. He claims that every instance of gibbersh tongues speaking is a known earthly language. According to Hayford, because there are more than 6,000 known languages on the planet and no one person could possibly identify all of them; therefore if we don't recognize the gibberish it must be a known language that we are just unfamiliar with. What kind of logic is that? He also conveniently forgets the requirement for a tongues speaker to either have an interpreter present or to be quiet. His assumption that even though we may not know the language we're supernaturally speaking, that we are somehow edified apart from understanding, without dealing with Paul's major thrust in I Cor. 12-14 on insisting that nothing be done apart from understanding because it would be of no value without it. A typical charistmatic approach...long on anecdotal evidence, very short on exegesis. I'm sure Rev. Hayford is very well meaning, but don't waste your money on this book.