little tongue talker - post as a note on FB
Today’s message in church was about speaking in tongues. I felt lead to share my testimony with it. Speaking in tongues was as foreign to me as the sound of it is. I was brought up in a small missionary baptist church. Every now and again on rare occasions there were a few people that would "shout". It would scare everyone in the church and would be followed by whispers of people all over the church. That was the only experience I had with people encountering the Holy Spirit. When I first came to NCCA in 2007 I was completely weirded out. It was palm Sunday and everyone was waving palm branches, flagging, singing modern songs. The speaking in tongues was intriguing but made me feel nervous, I know now it was my own spirit man doing a little dance, not nervousness. I had never experienced that kind of freedom in worship or that kind of joy. In my home church joy was expressed in tears that looked the same as sadness. I kept coming back, so desperate to feel Gods ...