Some Churches are as staid as they come. All of my ministries were staid when I started, yet not when I finished. I think that applause or laughter or expressions of worship or (appropriate) interjections in the Church do various good things: they reveal to the whole Body what a congregation values, they lighten the atmosphere, they reveal that the whole Body is glad about something, they show that the Church especially appreciates someone, they add to the “participative” nature of things -- and so on. OBSERVATION: This does not imply, however, that a Church has become charismatic.
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