And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his outer garment, and stood at the entrance of his cave. That still, small voice, the story implies, was the voice of God. In other churches, people think that the Holy Spirit is present, when they sing loudly. The louder they sing, and the more that they get all worked up, the closer they feel to God. There are many churches, where the people consider that the unmistakable mark of the presence of the Holy Spirit, is that people there are moved to speak incomprehensibly, what they call speaking in tongues.
Quakers are the oddballs.
When we feel that God's Spirit is near, we are likely to get quiet. We feel that the still, small voice is the way that God speaks to us. I thought that this morning, we might spend a few minutes together, looking at this business of how we perceive and experience the Holy Spirit. It's really pretty interesting, and we don't talk about it very much. I don't know if that's because we tend to take the Holy Spirit for granted, or maybe it's because we feel that it's too special to talk about.