Any Spirit Filled Christian Aspies?

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I am Pentecostal and am interested in hearing from Aspies who are Pentecostal, Evangelistic or otherwise spirit filled. As you may know, these types of churches can get very "active" during service. I am just wondering how you handle that.

I am also interested in hearing about your relationship with God, if you feel Him, if you speak in tongues, etc.

I am a Spirit-filled Christian Aspie, but I am Catholic so you probably don't want to hear from me.

I want to hear from anyone who is spirit filled. I would love to know more, know about your relationship with God. I would like to know if you feel Him and how you feel Him. Do you speak in tongues?

I'm also a spirit filled Christian.

Hi
I go to a baptist church each sunday.
I became a christian at seven.
I feel God through his miracles, and through his love, and through songs.
At the moment, I'm not such a strong Christian - I'm too busy
What about you?

Oh, and at church services when people get active, it freaks me out, sorry

When they get active in my church, it freaks me out too. I chose a seat in the front, though, on the side and my husband and I sit there. I am sort of out of the traffic so it doesn't get too close to me.

When we got married, my husband and I agreed that we would always put God first in our lives. We pray together each morning and go to church every Sunday and Wednesday. We are also active in our church.

Because we put God first, He has blessed both of us greatly in many ways.

Services in our church are "interesting." They get very active and the noise, touching and movement is very distracting. I can feel the presence of God, but I experience differently from my NT friends. I have talked to them about what they experience and I wrote a book about it. They tell me that their experiences are different. My husband talks with me about it a lot.

God talks to each of us, though, in the way that we understand. He meets us wherever we are, however we need Him to come to us. I am really glad of that, because if He reached out to me the way he reaches out to NTs, I would totally miss it.

The Bible says that God created us in His image. That means that even though I am not NT, I was still created in His image so I am not that different after all.

The only spirits i've ever been filled with are distilled ones



Welcome nonetheless

haha

That isn't exactly what I am talking about. But the Holy Spirit can indeed give you a drunk feeling, euphoric, even dizzy. It is a good feeling though.

Welcome to WP! I guess you would say I am evangelistic Christian. I became Christian in college

Sometimes the music can get kinda loud at my church, especially during the college service. When that happens, I go in the back or, once I had my own little corner I would go to that blocked out a fair amount of the lights & sound, but I still got the vibrations of the music through the walls. I do enjoy meeting people at church because I know that I can help someone get connected to the community.

I would say my relationship with God is good I definitely like reading Paul's letters in the Bible because he has a nice logical layout of things. I definitely have to have things logically make sense about my faith before the emotions come, but I do feel God also. At first, I thought praying had to be entirely verbal, but now I let God have access to my thoughts even if what comes out is crying or if I'm super-excited my 'happy noises.' Hope this helps!

ksuther, that is EXACTLY what I was talking about! I wanted to know if other people experience church the way I do.
My church gets pretty loud sometimes and very active. I have my spot in the front, off to the side where the lights aren't so bad and the crowd doesn't get to me too much. It is also away from the noise somewhat, but it if gets to be too much, I can slip into the room at the front, or I can go out in the hall in the back.

Noise really bothers me - and the touching.

It seems like sitting off to the side has helped you. What other strategies do you use to deal with the lights / noise? I find something as simple as closing my eyes during worship helps. I also have a 'stim cloth' that I knitted too that I just use in my hands.

Are you expected to meet a lot of people or can you work something out with your husband where he initiates the handshake & he introduces you later? Also, just telling people, "I'm not much of a hand-shaker, but it's nice to meet you." might help. If you are familiar with a lot of your congregation, they will probably understand. Do close friends there know about your dx? My friends on my Bible Study & a few others know about mine & that helps me as a support system.

Hi. Yes. Speak in tongues in prayer, usually alone rather than during corporate prayer. Feel God maybe 4 times a decade, thus truly need faith. When noise is too much, I dial back my hearing aids. No problem with lots of activity, so long as I am left alone. Prefer sermons with logical layout of scripture and exposition. Dislike sermons that are only emotion.

I never thought about a "stim cloth" or anything like that. I think that would help a lot. I tear up my hands (literally) during service.
I also close my eyes during the service and during praise and worship. It does help.

Most of the people at church don't know exactly of my AS. Everyone wants to hug and they put their hands on my shoulder or arm. If I can see it coming, I can sort of prepare and I know it will be over quickly. It is hard, but I can get through it. It's when I don't know the contact is coming that i have a difficult time.

But they are all really nice. My husband is pretty much always there and he lets me know when people (the huggers) are coming my way. He said he would tell them to not touch me, but I said it is OK. I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings and they just don't understand. I can deal with it for the short time it happens.

I had an awesome day at church today. I gave my testimony (pastor asked me at the last minute). I don't like to be the center of attention, but I thought if it would help someone I could do it, so I did. I wrote my testimony on my blog and it is much better on there than the way I explained it (my husband said I did great - so did a lot of the others at church - but I felt awkward).

Hi!

I just discovered Christianity. I'm Protestant. My pastor calls the church "hybrid" it's a bunch of the branches of Protestant put togethet

I tend to speak in tongues when I am alone too. When I am around everyone, there are just too many distractions.
I feel God on a regular basis, but He communicates with me in the ways I understand.

I don't understand sermons that are about emotion. They don't make sense to me.

Do you raise your hands during the service or during praise and worship?

It is great being a Christian. Sometimes it is too intense. Does your church pray out loud, raise their hands and speak in tongues?