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Does this happen at your church?

1Co 14:39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
1Co 14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
 
I've heard of the Toronto Blessing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_blessing January 1994 at the Toronto Airport. I'm not sure what to make of it. But I don't think It was from God. In fact, I think it was nothing but good old-fashioned demonic possession. Demons don't say, "Hey, I'm a demon, let me jump into your body and hijack your soul". They say, "I'm God, will you obey me no matter what I ask you to do?"

Correct me if wrong.
 
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Long ago a guy told me about a church I was considering attending that they rolled in the aisles and drooled from the mouth.
Scared me right away.
I told my pastor about it and he laughed and said "I'll go just to see it"!
So I ended up going there, they did not do those things, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit and my life changed.
But this Toronto Blessing?
No, this stuff is off the wall stuff.
I wouldn't go near it.
 
Does that happen in my church? Heck, no. We are Lutherans, so the most likely source of a strange sound during our service is someone's snoring. :lol

Seriously though, this really isn't my style of worship. It looks demonic (not saying it is, but it does remind of people acting possessed). Humans behaving like animals is something the Bible doesn't condone, but consider madness, e.g. Nebukadnezzar in the book of Daniel.
Those people psych themselves up into some ecstatic state for their own "fun", it's a self-serving thing rather than worship of the Lord.

Honestly though I'd sure like to know what they are experiencing when they are rolling on the floor screaming.
 
Claudya said:
Does that happen in my church? Heck, no. We are Lutherans, so the most likely source of a strange sound during our service is someone's snoring. :lol

Seriously though, this really isn't my style of worship. It looks demonic (not saying it is, but it does remind of people acting possessed). Humans behaving like animals is something the Bible doesn't condone, but consider madness, e.g. Nebukadnezzar in the book of Daniel.
Those people psych themselves up into some ecstatic state for their own "fun", it's a self-serving thing rather than worship of the Lord.

Honestly though I'd sure like to know what they are experiencing when they are rolling on the floor screaming.
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:lol I was a Lutheran for many years.What synod are you?
 
At the church I hold closest to my heart, it was not uncommon for there to be "headbanging" (like you would see at a rock concert) during praise. The musical style catered to it, as did the lifestyle of the majority of the congregation. People would also jump up and down (more or less in place), bow on their knees and face, and raise their hands toward the ceiling. Despite these outward expressions of devotion and reverence, the worship service was orderly. No one was crawling on the floor, unless they were knelt down and someone asked them to move over. I grew up in a very rigid Southern Baptist church, where I was asked more than once if I was "okay" while I was on my face before the Lord. To me, an expressive church is freeing, but a chaotic church agitates me, and makes me want to confront the leadership of the church.

As far as demonic possession in this instance, I can't agree or disagree, though I do agree that Satan appears as an angel of light, rather than as the dark, wicked creature we sometimes imagine. I have seen the hysteria a "mob mentality" can create. Comedians, in fact, thrive off that hysteria. If you've paid attention, perhaps you have noticed that you laugh at a joke more when your friends or the people around you laugh at it. Were you to hear that joke while sitting by yourself, you might not laugh at all. I was once part of a hypnotism show, which I found to be interesting (though ill-advised, to be sure). It's interesting the things you will do when others around you do the same.
 
That was a church in my denomination. Sadly, we're a little too bound up in our local church to give that freedom to the Holy Spirit,,,,, but maybe some day.

Actually, they got a little carried away with it, and our denomination dropped them. But similar things, although less exuberant, still happen in most of our churches.
 
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