Thanks, Michelle, for your comment.

Your description of that church service sounds like it may have been a Pentacostal church.

In the post that I just added to this thread, I noted that people in my church were too "sidity" to get happy. {"Sidity" means "middle class" and probably comes from the word "society", as in the phrase "high society". "Get happy" means "to show by word or actions that you are feeling the [Holy] spirit".

The experience you shared was almost 360 degrees from the formality {as measured by Black churches} of my church-yet they are both Black churches. And both experiences have merit.

I have attended churches like the one you mentioned a number of times. I liked the church services, but I found that my upbringing and my reserved, analytical nature made it difficult for me to really "get in to" the praise & worship.