I grew up in a Southern Baptist Church, so the only falling people did was falling asleep.

This made me LOL just picturing it. I did not have this experience in church, but I imagine my impulse would be to help if someone suddenly started falling. My arms would just reach out before I realized what I was doing. If I knew they had a habit of this for attention though....I might just let em look foolish.

As soon as I was old enough to not have to go to church with my mother, I stopped this activity. Given your scenario, Yea. She would have hit the floor.

Another thing that would freak me out is people talking in tongues

Never experienced that but it sounds hilarious.

Having never attended a church service, I've got no idea what this is all about. Why do people fall and need to be caught, and what does it have to do with the holy ghost?

You don't really see that kind of thing in most British churches, it is slowly gaining popularity but I haven't attended church since I was a kid. If it did happen near me I would let God catch them, I mean it's his fault they fell right?

I had an appointment with a millionaire preacher in Long Beach CA and he wanted to meet at the church right after the service. I arrived early in time to see: people babbling incoherently, lots of eye rolling and weird facial expressions, weird body movements, hands in the air waving frantically. All I could do was stand there and be amazed at how these idiots acted...If one of them fell against me, I would have recoiled in horror...

My brother used to get the Holy Spirit, when he was sitting right next to me in church. As a young child, this would frighten me. I didn't even want to be near him, let alone, catch him if he fell.

I remember during my videography career I was hired to document some book-hawking bigwig preacher (just picture that one end-times televangelist who is almost perfectly spherical and you'll have a good mental image of this guy -- what is it about these guys that makes them so freaking ROUND) and he was doing this bit of you need your "fresh oil of the holy spirit" and was touching people who then fell over backwards. Problem, some of his followers were in the same physical shape as the reverend and his assistants were having a harder and harder time catching them. This was one after another, touch forehead, roly-poly cultist falling over backwards, increasingly red and sweaty minions struggling to lower them safely. I just stood there and filmed it. Laughed my ass off the whole way home.

Well one thing is certain, she sure showed everyone how holy she was!
I remember one time an elder of a church started speaking in tongues. She then started to interpret them and then started to speak as if she was god. It started out praise him to praise me. love me worship me etc.

I thought how lame is this. (I was actually a believer at the time) God is performing a miracle right here and now and saying nothing at all but is on a ego trip. Why is he not giving us the cure for cancer or saying, John it would be better to help your neighbor clean their floor before tomorrow or they will slip and hurt themselves, it would be a better use of that time than playing with yourself while fantasizing about Fred wife like usual. Or buy a lottery ticket with this number and start a soup kitchen. You know, useful stuff. Instead "God" bored us with an ego trip. I walked out of that church that day with more skepticism.

I used to think about Ernest Angely's "catcher"
What a job ! Lol

Oh yeah... let them fall...lol.

I have never even been to a church where temporary insanity is the norm.

Go to You Tube and read the story of Kris Kristofferson and him telling how he wrote the song "Why Me Lord." Its the closest you will ever come to something as what you are looking for.

Religious ecstasies are somewhat common in certain Protestant denominations. First time I saw one was at a tent revival--yes, they still have these--where the preacher was on a roll, and an elderly woman was 'overcome by the spirit.' I thought she was having a seizure, and feared for her safety, but I was told she would be fine. She came out of it after a few minutes, and seemed not to have been aware of what had happened. An interesting psychological study, these religious ecstasies, and this behavior is supported in the New Testament.

Back in my Christian days. I saw people falling all over the place thinking like whatever they was smoking I want some but I never caught someone falling near me while they have a holy ghost. Because if they did it near me I would catch them.

Hahaha I love it! Thank you for sharing this this experience. Hahahaha

Does anyone here have any insight as to what occurs when someone is "slain in the Spirit"? Is it purely psychological, resulting from carefully prepared stagecraft, or are surreptitious means employed such as the use of fast acting narcotic powders that are released from the evangelist's hand as he reaches out to touch the foreheads of the faithful?

Why be there to let her down in the first place? Did you let yourself down first?

Lol! Too funny.

The churches I went to weren't like that.

NAUGHTY GIRL! Let me buy you a drink!

That is sooooooo hilariously right!!! I used to have to catch them, but to a void being injured, I would "LET THE LORT HAVE HIS WAY" and let them bounce. Of course most times the preacher was pushing them back, which I later discovered was a trick to get spiritual brownie points for being so "powerful"........oh the games people play

No, but I've sure wanted to!