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It was so emotional to openly worship that way.
thats awesome! yea in my church there is sometimes ppl runnin around with flags, some like to shout out clap hands, some ppl like to do there own interperative dances which is so cool! and yea theres electric and all that jazz, I agree pentecostal services are tha bomb!! there is another church that i'm kinda goin to instead for a while, it is so awesome. near the end of the worship service there is like hardly anyone in their seats, everyone is up at the front jumping around, praising, some ppl with flags and these long stick used for different stuff, it's amazing it's like a miniature mosh pit! theres older ppl, kids, oh man totally amazing!Faithful-Frank said:
We have a praise band...drums, 2-3 guitars, bass and singers. They mainly play Third Day, MercyMe, Casting Crowns etc. No flags or dancing, but I've been in other services where some folks just danced with the Holy Spirit in almost a ballet. We have about 125 folks...most worship with their hands raised, some with their eyes shut and smiles on their faces....you can really sense the presence of the Holy Spirit. No hymnals either. I kinda miss some of the good ol' songs of long ago...before CCM. I came out of a southern baptist church and the first time I worshipped at this church in this atmosphere, I cried like a baby.
Shouldn't you be sleeping? Praise or more so worship is so exciting to me. Our church is small, and I have been to large churches, but we sing and raise our hands to God. The presence of His Spirit is often strong, but unfortuatly we are really the only young people in our church so there is no jumping or loud funky music. It keeps me happy though. Worship in our homegroup though is a different story. It is where we see the face of God, where we are free to worship as we please, and sing and shout as much as we want. Where the precesce of God is sometimes so strong you cry for the thought of leaving it breaks your heart. I think praise and worship is the most powerful way God can work on your heart.
It most definetly is!! yea there isn't much young people in our church either, theres is lil kids up there, elderly... they mostly just use flags.. it's not their strength it's Gods.. and there are all ages up at the front jumping around... you should really just give it a go man.. when the pressence of the Lord starts getting really strong just in the spirit go up there and jump around, no one will care they are off worship as well, and who knows there may be people joining you! It really is amazingtsoovere said:
Tammy
... We dance around, jump a bit... shout & holler... sometimes we have a big party... the spirit comes down and people are all over the place... People don't have flags, not because we're against them (I have several of my own at home... good fun ), but rather because we don't have room for them... we bought the church from a Seventh-Day Adventist church, so it was built for very calm services... no room whatsoever in the aisles (and the building came with pews, so we can't really fix that without getting new seating...), and the open space is taken up by dancers... if people brought flags in, we would be hitting eachother left and right!!! After worship (which lasts about 45 minutes...), we have a coffee break and a sermon, then we end with more worship... I love being able to worship twice in one service! 
duhJim M said:The pastor is called Jim.
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