Students faint, church attributes it to spiritual revival
Shillong: The “revival spirit” spreads to Shillong schools on Thursday with a few cases of girl students fainting during school hours. At least 30 to 40 students of All Saints’ School of class VII and VIII fainted and some of them were taken to All Saints’ Church for the advice of Rev PB Lyngdoh, who is the Vicar of All Saints Church.According to Rev PB Lyngdoh, the revival proclaiming the coming of the Holy Spirit is spreading across the Khasi and Jaintia Hills. “We also heard such reports in rural and urban areas of the State including Laban and Mawkhar,” Rev Lyngdoh said.
Source: https://www.theshillongtimes.com/c-1-Sept.htm
Students faint: Stress factor
Sir,
There are reports of number of school students fainting everyday for about a month. One must find out the causes and the effects of these happenings. What people of Khasi and Jaintia Hills interpreted as entry of the Holy Spirit or Revival is not understandable to me. In Arunachal Pradesh, the Monpas attribute this happening as an evil spirit trying to strangle young students especially girls. The Budhist monks “treat” these happenings with rituals and sacrifices. The question is who is right and who is wrong? Don’t you think it is a mere superstition and there is a motive of glorifying one’s own belief? Meghalaya and Arunachal have received least rainfall this year and hence the weather is hot and dry. Are the cases of students fainting has any connection with the drastic climatic change? Is it the beginning of sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARC) that once occurred in China and South East Asia? Has it happened only to poor students who are malnourished?
There are many questions in the minds of many. I feel that the Health Department, Environmental Science Department and scientists should come forward to solve this mysterious happening once and for all.
I respect the believers on different faiths. A Muslim declares that during his prayer in the mosque he met Allah; a Hindu claims that idol of a goddess drank milk. In Philosophy and other physical sciences faith is termed as “irrational, and a mere belief which contains no truth.” A semi-literate patient comes all the way from Jaintia Hills to meet Dr S Lungdoh. He said, “I believe he will cure me but if I die on his hand I’ll be happy as I have no faith on other doctors even the more qualified ones.”
The government should engage doctors, scientists, sociologists and psychologists to study the incidents and find out the actual reasons.
Yours etc.,
Macdonald Karbaninga,
Shillong-4
Source: https://www.theshillongtimes.com/editorial.html
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September 8th, 2006 at 7:39 am
‘Why do we always think revival being associated with fainting? I failed to see any fainting and confusion in the Bible when revival took place, see the book of Acts chapter 1-3, a classic example. True revival is obedience to God’s call – changed lifes. Let’s not forget Satan is expert in bringing the counterfeit of every good thing God has initiated. for true revival – he has false revival. For true prophets, he has false prophets, for true sabbath, he has false sabbath and so on. Let’s always see things in the light of the Bible. We can never go wrong.
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September 8th, 2006 at 8:19 am
Fainting is when you lose consciousness and fall senseless to the ground, so spiritually it symbolises a fall of the sinful self, a fall of all that is evil and sinful and wicked in you to wake up a new person that is pure and beautiful in His eyes. If you don’t faint when you experience a personal spiritual revival, hmmmmm.
Hahaha in awih leh vek awm sia. Just applying a little symbolism theology here. har de har
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September 8th, 2006 at 11:00 am
(Old) MacDonald-a sawi ang hian chhui chian a tha khawp mai, medically leh scientifically pawhin. Bible pawhin thlarau te chu fiah turin min fuih ani lawm mi? Fiah silo a awih leh zawm ringawt hi a himlo a ti zawk daih…. emoni kha le.
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September 8th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
From my own experience, let me make a small confession. I took part in a revival program once held at “Shekinah Glory” Church while I was doing my engineering in Coimbatore. Since it has been years since I last went to church (no church nearby and hardly a handful of Mizo students back then), I though I need to do some major spiritual upliftment…
So I went to this camp held (forgot if it was a Baptist or Adventist Church) on the other side of town. I am a Pres but that doesnt bother me at all because all I wanted then was to start afresh.
During one of the camp, I was having a good time singing and clapping. Suddenly the pastor came to the audience during the song and started touching everybody! I thought only volunteers who wanted to be touched go infront. But this pastor mingled with everybody. And all those he touched fell down. He then touched me. I fell down.
But you know what. Till now I am confused. I think I fell down more on purpose due to peer pressure rather than spiritual pressure. I definitely did not want to be the only person who did not fall when the pastor touched. So, there I was making myself fall down, straight out of a Hollywood movie.
I totally agree with what upa Muana said below. I think revival is not just about falling. I never went to the Camp again, because a part of me was embarrased that I cheated God and the people around me by falsely falling.
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September 8th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
lolzz lal J.. i was like since when did j get into all this ??..hehheh i cant speak for others experience of the holy spirit..but personally i like to worship my God with my senses clear and two feet on the ground .
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September 8th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
once a friend of my mother’s came to pray for us. she was a very spiritual woman and the people she had her hands on while praying used to fall down…
so there we were praying and she hand my hand on my head and she was actually pushing me to make me fall down.. so well i had no choice cuz i didnt wanna embarass her and i fell down =)
no disrespect intended but sometimes this harhna stuff can be a sham.
thratpui tak tak te poh an awm mai thei but most of the time its just bogus stuff..
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September 8th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Fooled you again, didnt I, life10?
Actually this falling down upon the laying of hands thing is an intrinsic part of the Charismatic movement. Ref. https://cnview.com/on_line_reso.....gerous.htm
Quote “The Charismatic Movement is dangerous because….
(7) It promotes and encourages what is called “coming under the power,” a dangerous practice in which certain leaders “lay hands” on people causing them to “swoon, faint slump down, experience the power” etc., thereafter remaining unconscious or semi-conscious for several seconds or longer. The Charismatics attempt to use John 18:6 to justify this practice which is another example of how they twist the Scriptures to justify and defend their practices. There is no Scriptural precedent, example or command for this experience. Hypnotic suggestion and the desire for an extra-biblical experience opens one up to either pretended or demonically energized results which parallel those of the occult.”
Unquote: hmmmmm
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September 8th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Brother Sandman, you !!!??? It’s hard to believe you can’t remember if it was a Baptist or Adventist Church!! I don’t believe you are telling the truth here. Baptists and Adventists as we all know, are the most rigid Bible believers and I know in their churches they don’t practice charismatic hypes apart from what they see in the Bible, far from the phenomena described in that article (pushing down people, fainting) and so on. I am an Adventist, my dad is a baptist, and i know both beliefs and practices really well. Adventists will say “Amen” to all of Upa Muana’s comments wholeheartedly. Please investigate before you write so you do not infringe ignorantly on others’ beliefs.
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September 9th, 2006 at 12:18 am
Bro Sandman, I am not surprise at all. For I have seen you converting coffee into wine, money into cigar , in my house, in front of my own eyes.
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September 9th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Sister Sangi V.
My utmost apologies if I had hurt your sentiments in any way. The point I was trying to make was about my experience at a camp in Coimbatore. I did not have any intention of maligning any particular denomination. All I remebered was that it was definitely not a Catholic or a Presbyterian Church. It could have even been a Pentecostal Church too. To me, it did not matter what denomination it was as long as it was a Christian Church. Hence my mistake if I had mentioned it wrongly.
Having said that, I clearly did not see why you would digress from the topic and accuse me of “infringing ignorantly on other’s belief”? All I did was talk about how people were touched how they fell down. The way you tried to divide Christianity further than it already is and questioning my credibility in the process is not a very matured thing to do. If any Mizo is in South India where there are no Presbyterian Church / Baptist Church / Mizo Church etc etc around, he or she will be more than happy to go to any Church. I really did not care about the denomination of that Church. Let it be Baptist, Adventist, Catholic, who cares. I’d rather go to any Church than no Church.
Trying to make my earlier innocent comment look like an inflammatory speech against a particular denomination is purely scandalous and I really wish people shouldn’t stoop to such levels. Making a mountain out of such a mole hill will get you nowhere. Like I said before, I apologize if you felt I labelled your denomination in the wrong way, as my intention was just to talk about the time I “fell down” and absolutely nothing about that particular Church.
Peace.
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September 9th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
Sangi V -
i haf read Sandman’s comment and i Seriously did not think he meant to discriminate or watever any such adventists or baptists….
he was actually apologising as he said he was cheating God by falling down …
letz haf P P P Peaceeeeee
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September 10th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Khaih khaih khai! Apology a tih tawh chuan ngawih mai tur. Ka nau ‘Sandman-a hi ngaithiam rawh u. Sangi V is not totally out of line. If my church is mentioned in a wrong way, I sure would try to correct it like Sangi did. Tawk tawh rawh se! Ka nau Sandman-a hi ngaihthiam rawh u.
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September 10th, 2006 at 7:47 am
i am a catholic,i never experience about fainting and in stuff but then ya as long as a person does anything for the love of god truthfully,god answers every humble prayers,no matter what denomination we r,we still worship the same god,way to go guys,i dont feel bad if anyone speaks about denomination let them speak whatever they think,let anyone speak bad of it,it is good that we dont lose faith in god and in our denominations(whatever catholic,baptist,presbyterian,etc)its good to believe in ourselves and the way we worship god…….
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September 10th, 2006 at 7:58 am
sangi khian a ngaihtuah kimlo deuh a nih khi,kohhran sandman a khian a soichhe lo a,a discriminate bok hek lo,please investigate before you write amah khian a investigate lo jok a nih khi,rilru lian vak lo a ni tih hriat mai kohhranah hian buai loh tur christian kan nih chhung chuan kan biak a in ang vek kan biakdan a dang a ni mai,baptist poh ni sek sek adventist poh ni sek sek in khoih thluk tih te hi kan lo pongpaw soisel thei hleinem,tu hnathoh nge tih tuman kan hre bik lo,ka soi peih toh lo thring em maaiiii
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September 11th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Is Benny Hinn’s method an example of the Charismatic Movement?
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