Is a new move of the Holy Spirit taking place? 3 leaders weigh in

After reports of a fresh outpouring at Asbury University, Emma Fowle speaks to three leaders to discuss what God might be doing 

Why aren’t people falling over in church any more? If you lived through the Charismatic Renewal movement of the 1980s and 90s, then your relatively normal experience of a Sunday morning church service may have included the following: people being ‘slain in the Spirit’ – falling over after having been prayed for (or gently sliding off their chairs), lying on the floor for protracted periods of time, shaking, laughing loudly or weeping; miraculous healings, speaking in tongues, manifestations and demonic deliverance. 

Perhaps you saw (or heard rumours of) gold teeth suddenly appearing, flakes of gold floating down from the sky, or oil appearing on hands. Maybe you or someone you know travelled to Canada to experience the ‘Toronto Blessing’ or visited Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in the early days after Eleanor Mumford prayed for the leadership team and famously left them immobilised, seemingly ‘drunk in the Spirit’. She returned the following Sunday to see the whole undignified thing repeated among the wider congregation of upper middle-class Kensington Anglicans.