Many person's objections to the movement have focused exclusively on its mystical practice called the '' Toronto Blessing ,'' but the Toronto Blessing is only one aspect of the movement, and should not be separated from the theology that produced it. As pointed out, though the movement is grounded on the Latter Rain theology, it contains people with a hodge-podge of belief systems. Many bizarre practices came into being as their churches ''partied with God'' and pathetically feeble doctrines have been improvised to rationalize these new man-made traditions. Participants are urged to let go of self-control and give themselves over to emotional experience, without questioning or trying to understand it with the mind. The church becomes a chaos of revelers without inhibition, carousing in their spiritual drunkenness- reeling, falling, and slurring their words just exactly as if they were drunk with alcohol.
Worshippers jump and dance themselves into a frenzy to their worship music, just like pagans do.
Some are overcome by desperate agony, shaking and sobbing uncontrollably. This is the ''Toronto blessing'' which has since spread from the Toronto Airport Vineyard Church , which made it famous, to countless other churches, across the world. Some churches try to practice it within limits, others allow complete abandon - and a frightening ''violent edge'' is described by witnesses. And this 'ministry time,' as it is called, is becoming the focal point of church services, pushing out the teaching of the word. Pages on this site may not be copied or framed.