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another automobile. Men in the church had to haul Kilpatrickout of the auditorium in a wheelchair because he was toodrunk to walk. On one occasion Kilpatrick fell onto theplatform and a woman from the “worship team” fell into hisarms and they lay on the platform in a drunken stuportogether. He laughingly tells this story on an audio cassettethat I have. It is definitely not the Holy Spirit who causes thatkind of moral temptation and confusion.“Spiritual drunkenness” was not the only characteristic ofthe Brownsville Outpouring. ere was also “spiritualjerking” and shaking. e leaders of the Pensacola meetingsclaim that a turning point in the “outpouring” occurred inAugust 1995, two months aer the manifestations began,when a 19-year-old female college student stood andprophesied: “God is in a hurry. ere’s not much more time.He aches and He grieves for your spirit.” As she spoke thesewords she was jerking so uncontrollably that she appeared tobe suffering from cerebral palsy. When she completed thisprophecy, she collapsed to the floor.One woman in the Brownsville Assembly of God choir wasallegedly healed of a serious neck injury, but for at least a yearand a half aerwards she experienced wild anduncontrollable jerking of her head from side to side whenevershe was near the church. Kilpatrick said he was not ashamedto have a woman in his choir “who shakes like she has palsy,”claiming that this was a “sign from God.”is is spiritual delusion of a very high order, and LindellCooley’s music played a prominent part of the BrownsvilleOutpouring. e high-octane contemporary praise music,which was blasted out of the powerful speaker system, wascharacterized by sensual dance syncopations, non-resolvingchord sequences, repetitious lyrics, sensual vocal techniques,and a dramatic rise and fall of tempo and sound level. epeople yielded to the music and allowed it to carry them intoemotional highs which they misinterpreted as “the tangible65