Here is something that is puzzling to me. How is it that some folks in church are silent. Not as far as witnessing goes, but I am talking about in church. There are times when I walk into the prayer room before a service and I feel like no one is praying out loud. Often they are sitting with heads bowed, but no sound comes from their mouths. There are times when you must pray silently. But in corporate prayer before service it is a time to pray out loud.
Another thing that puzzles me is how some people do not sing or worship in church. They are not mad dogging the song leader or staring at the pastor. They just stand there silent, not singing or lifting their hands to God or speaking in tongues.
As a Pentecostal church, being silent in prayer and in worship is strange to me. Are these people not Spirit filled? Are they more Evangelical than Pentecostal?
On Saturday morning we have prayer. After praying we sing. That small group at Saturday morning prayer meeting makes more noise singing and praying and worshiping than our whole church does on Sunday morning sometimes.
"And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." Acts 2:4
"we hear them speaking..." Acts 2:11
"Others mocking said, they are full of new wine." Acts 2:13
If you cannot speak in tongues or pray out loud or worship freely then maybe you do not have what I have.
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