Here to Visit our Sponsors. The United Pentecostal Church International is normally considered to be within the Pentecostal family of Christian churches. Each person heard preaching in their own native language. Needless to say, it is a rare phenomenon.
Skeptics challenge that it has ever happened.
There is one fundamental difference between the first century CE phenomenon of xenoglossia and the glossolalia exhibited among Pentecostals today. The latter is not an actual foreign language. It sounds to the casual observer like a repetitive series of meaningless sounds. If it were converted to written form, the alphabet would contain only a few vowels and consonants. They are a fundamentalist Christian denomination, which is part of the Pentecostal family of denominations.