Do you believe in Pentecostal Shouting?

[stmatthew]

This may explain where I am coming from a little better.


I was raised in a church where the power of God fell often, and folks shouted, danced, ran, and screamed. it was normal for folks to come to church expecting to receive a "blessing" from God. I watched the holy ghost come upon my mom as she sang and played the organ, and she would begin to sing in tongues. I watched as the holy ghost would come upon my dad, and often he would cut loose into what some would call "the jerks", but what most of you now call out of order. I saw others that I could name, shouting, dancing in the spirit, screaming, and hollering. But I also heard the Word preached. I saw conviction hit folks that caused them to run to an alter. I saw folks pray through to the holy ghost. I saw cancers fall of into peoples hands. I saw folks healed, delivered, and set free.

This would be another example:

I have witnessed with my own eye's a man shout backwards, fall over a row of folding chairs, smack dab onto a sleeping baby, and rolled back off of the baby, never missing a beat. The baby was fine, and never even woke up.

I could also add this:


Often, when the holy ghost came upon my mother, she would scream out, and turn slowly in circles with raise hands. At times, she would shout her hair down, and we kids spent time after service collecting the bobbypins for her and some of the other ladies in the church