So, tongues are for unbelievers. They serve primarily as an evangelical tool. When understood properly with the background of the Old Testament in view, tongues offer their sign-testimony to the unbeliever. However, this sign of transition has a role of minor significance to someone who has entered the fellowship of believers. “Tongues are for a sign … to unbelievers; but prophecy is to those who believe” (1 Cor. 14:22). God has not assigned the gift of tongues for the consistent upbuilding of the