Slain in the Spirit

[kclee4jc]

nevermind

[KWSS1976]

It happens pretty often in our AOG church, I myself cant speak for anyone else but I have a hard time believing in the whole falling out thing...I have a hard time accepting extra biblical church stuff...

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by KWSS1976

It happens pretty often in our AOG church, I myself cant speak for anyone else but I have a hard time believing in the whole falling out thing...I have a hard time accepting extra biblical church stuff...

For the most part I believe it is the result of a self belief that it has to happen and the person praying for you pushing you backwards.

However I also believe there are genuine instances where it's real. I've had it happen to me personally the first time I spoke in tongues. What had happened was I was lost in a trance essentially. I just felt like I was in a different location sort of like an out of body experience. But I believe these sort of events are rarer than we are led to believe. Pentecostals tend to be performance oriented, believing and being led to believe "Something has to happen" that sometimes we end up manufacturing things. We do it with emotionalism and music.

[endtimer]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

For the most part I believe it is the result of a self belief that it has to happen and the person praying for you pushing you backwards.

However I also believe there are genuine instances where it's real. I've had it happen to me personally the first time I spoke in tongues. What had happened was I was lost in a trance essentially. I just felt like I was in a different location sort of like an out of body experience. But I believe these sort of events are rarer than we are led to believe. Pentecostals tend to be performance oriented, believing and being led to believe "Something has to happen" that sometimes we end up manufacturing things. We do it with emotionalism and music.

Agree. I think we got to be careful not to follow after or always look for signs and wonders. Signs and wonders should follow the believers; be a product of our interaction with the Spirit of God.

[obriencp]

Originally Posted by endtimer

Agree. I think we got to be careful not to follow after or always look for signs and wonders. Signs and wonders should follow the believers; be a product of our interaction with the Spirit of God.

and to quote prax... "For the most part I believe it is the result of a self belief..."



If we belong to a church that deems tongues as necessary, then certainly the unsaved will tarry for such a sign as we all expect and demand that 'proof' that they've been saved. I remember a group of us praying for a young man years ago that had the Holy Ghost all over him, for lack of better terms. He was trembling, crying, and had stammering lips. He would get tired and take a break and ask us if he had it yet. The pastor and leaders at the time were reluctant to give him a definitive answer, so he would go back to fervent prayer. He was looking for a sign that i'm not sure ever came for him. He was looking for that sign because man had convinced him it was necessary. How sad would it be if he got frustrated and gave up although according to many scriptures, he was saved.

I've never been slain, but I don't doubt it could happen.

[navygoat1998]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

For the most part I believe it is the result of a self belief that it has to happen and the person praying for you pushing you backwards.

However I also believe there are genuine instances where it's real. I've had it happen to me personally the first time I spoke in tongues. What had happened was I was lost in a trance essentially. I just felt like I was in a different location sort of like an out of body experience. But I believe these sort of events are rarer than we are led to believe. Pentecostals tend to be performance oriented, believing and being led to believe "Something has to happen" that sometimes we end up manufacturing things. We do it with emotionalism and music.

I have been drunk in the Spirit just one time and that was at the Azusa street celebration in 2006.

[navygoat1998]

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

What are your views on such an experience? Does it happen often in your church? Have you ever been "Slain in the Spirit"?

I have seen it happen in our AG church, but in our UPC church it was common to see people drunk in the Spirit. I have never been slain in the Spirit.

[KWSS1976]

Tim Storey just left our church he was dropping folks like flys all laid out....

[endtimer]

I wasn't sure what to make of it, Ive seen some the silliness involved with it and other demonstrations but kept an open mind to it. Eventually Ive experienced this on two different occasions both were during times of trial and struggle. I can describe it as a feeling of being intensely overwhelmed by the Spirit of God, beyond what I could physically handle. After all was said and done I got up feeling unburdened and content. We dont see this happen often in our local assembly.

[Aquila]

For me, it's an overwhelming sense of surrender. It's just falling prostrate in prayer and worship. Nothing knocks me down. lol