None of those things in and of themselves are problematic.
What is problematic is the way in which certain churches have built their service around the intent to emotionally and psychologically manipulate people. That's not inherent or unique to Charismaticism, but it is a frequent problem within Charismaticism.
Being moved emotionally in worship isn't a problem. Constructing a service that is built to intentionally get people to feel a certain way
is a problem.
I am frequently moved in worship, and it's rare that I don't get at least a little emotional when I receive the Lord's Supper. So it's not being moved emotionally that many of us are concerned with. It's things like the following:
Here are some issues:
The entire experience is orchestrated. The feelings that can be had in the video above can be had simply by attending a concert.
See? Now I'm not slamming on concerts, but the rush, the excitement, the ecstatic feelings of oneness that is felt when you get a swell of people all singing and moving together--those are all the things that happen at a concert, it's human psychology.
That doesn't mean that the people leading worship in this way are intentionally trying to manipulate people, from their perspective it's really that it "works", it's a form of pragmatism that descends from 19th century Revivalism and the New Measures put forth by revivalist preachers such as Charles Finney. It's pragmatism in the sense that over time certain things seem to "work" that result in people responding a certain way, this results in the construction of worship forms that have a high degree of getting the desired results. The desired results are: people feeling a closeness to God and each other, people coming forward to "accept Jesus" due to the experience, people "rededicating themselves to Christ" due to the experience, the continued reaffirmation that this is the work of God and the Holy Spirit's presence, etc.
Now there are issues with the above, certainly, and much could be said. But to continue I would also like to add the problem of, well, let's call it Contemporary Evangelical Mysticism. The problem with Contemporary Evangelical Mysticism can be described briefly,
There is a confusion of Law and Gospel due to a failure to rightly discern between the Naked God and the Clothed God. That is, the God of Glory and the God of the Cross. Throughout Scripture it is made absolutely clear that sinful man cannot endure God's glory, if God is naked it means our utter destruction, God says to Moses, "No man can see Me and live." God passes Moses by and lets Moses only see His "backside" and just this is enough so that when Moses comes down from the mountain his face shone with such brilliance that he required a veil to cover his face so as to not blind anyone. The continued refrain again and again is that men come into contact with even a fraction of the divine glory they are terrified, they are filled with dread, even just an encounter with an angel, one of God's servants, is enough to make men fall prostrate in absolute terror. And so consistently God comes to us through means, through mediation.
And that is what we have in Christ, God clothed in the humility and weakness of human nature, revealing Himself to us through the weakness of the crucified Jesus, by the way of the cross.
This is a matter of Law and Gospel because the Law which reveals the pure, perfect righteousness of God damns us, condemns us, it demonstrates our sins and our faults and before the Law we stand utterly condemned by the righteous God beholding Him in His wrath kindled toward us. Not as though God were an angry thunder-wielding giant in the sky, but rather we can only see the terrible Judge who with righteousness judges us. The naked God in His glory is the Righteous One who, in His presence, we shake and tremble and behold in terror. It is, instead, God coming to us by the Means of the Incarnation, offering Himself in love, humility, service, kindness, and compassion and we see God as He would have us see Him, to know Him as the loving Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. That is to see God in faith, to see God through the grace of His Son, through the Word of His Gospel.
A fundamental problem is that Contemporary Evangelical Mysticism results in not preaching the God of the Cross, the God who comes to us through Means, who is presented to us in the Person of the Crucified and Risen Jesus, encountered through Word and Sacrament; but in the desire for a "direct encounter", to experience the Glory directly because there seems to be a confusion, a failure to recognize our sin perhaps, or a failure to consider what it means to speak of God in His Holy Glory as Terrifying and Terrible. And as such it results in a rejection of the Gospel, the focus is not on what God has done for us through Christ, given to us through the preaching of that Word and through the Sacraments instituted for our benefit; instead it is on circumventing God's Means and to try and reach God through our own way, namely, by the Law. That as though if we do X, Y, and Z we can attain this thing we want, and this thing we want is God and the encounter with God.
Of course, we can't. But that doesn't stop us from thinking we can, and thinking we have. And so we trying to circumvent the Means which God has given to come down and meet us where we are, we try and ascend to meet Him and--failing because we can't--we trick ourselves into thinking we have because of certain experiences and feelings we have attained. That's idolatry, certainly, but it's more tragic than simply being idolatrous we have so completely been led away from the pure Gospel of the Cross and have glomped onto an empty nothing.
-CryptoLutheran
