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on the floor with his feet in the air, laughing like a hyena,while others were “drunk.” e Alpha Course includes a“Holy Spirit Day” with the objective of bringing theparticipants into a charismatic experience, including“tongues.” Gumble says tongues speaking begins with alimited vocabulary and “develops” (Questions of Life, p. 147),but of course we see nothing like this in Scripture. eapostles did not have to attend a class on tongues speaking!e Alpha Course is a radically ecumenical program that ishelping to build the end-time, one-world “church.”Gumble says: “We need to unite ... the movement of theSpirit will always bring churches together. He is doing thatright across the denominations and within the traditions ...People are no longer ‘labelling’ themselves orothers” (Renewal, May 1995, p. 16).e lead article in the February 1997 issue of Alpha Newswas “Archbishop praises Alpha on Pope visit as Catholicchurch hosts conferences.” e article described how thatGeorge Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, recommended theAlpha course in a speech in Rome during his official visitwith Pope John Paul II in December of that year.In May 1997, more than 400 Catholic leaders attended anAlpha conference in Westminster Cathedral in London, to betrained in conducting Alpha courses in Catholic parishes.e meeting received the blessing of Cardinal Basil Hume,the highest Catholic official in England (Alpha News,February 1997, p. 1).In 2012, Nicky Gumble made the following statement:“Alpha runs in every arm of the Church. It’s growing thefastest in the Catholic church. ... the course runs exactly thesame no matter the denomination. ... What unites us isinfinitely greater than what divides us. We focus on whatunites us. We present a united front to the world. In everydifferent part of the body of Christ--Presbyterian, Baptist,Lutheran, non-denominational, Catholic, Pentecostals,Bulgarian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox--Alpha crosses all8