The Holy Spirit initiates and sustains the experience of speaking in tongues.

• A. Initiates; sustains
• B. Guides; terminates
• C. Creates; completes
• D. Initiates; completes

Answer: (A)

The unfolding pattern here is that the Holy Spirit is the active agent both at the start and throughout the speaking in tongues. He provides the initial utterance, empowering the believer to begin speaking in a language not learned, and then He continues to sustain that utterance during the experience, keeping it alive as a Spirit-led act of worship. This emphasis on the Spirit as both initiator and maintainer matches the understanding that the gift is empowered and kept by Him rather than something the believer starts alone or that ends on its own. Other descriptions would imply the Spirit only guides or only finishes the moment, which doesn’t fit the ongoing, Spirit-sustained nature of the experience.