Pentecostal ‘evangelist’ Chris Harvey is under investigation.

A woman who attended a local church Sunday evening told local police she caught a whiff of something other than the Holy Spirit at an evening service.

The woman said she passed out after a guest evangelist at Lufkin First Assembly waved his hand in front of her face and she smelled a strange odor, a police report stated.

The woman said she sought treatment at a local hospital.

She said several other people passed out as well and believes the man used some type of drug on her. The woman said she did not have the Holy Spirit in her when she collapsed, said Lufkin police spokesman Lt. David Young.

This is the pentecostal movement, long on theatrics, short on theology.
There are expectations of behavior - for example you’ll notice the complainant says she ‘did not have the Holy Spirit in her’ when she collapsed.
That’s theologically off base from orthodox Christianity but in her world, unless she goes with the group think, works up emotion and manifests behavior; to her she doesn’t have the Holy Spirit; nothing the bible says, and nothing much anyone says is going to convince her otherwise. This expectation has been called, ‘being slain in the Spirit.’

Chris Harvey travels the assembly circuit selling his CD’s, preaching and possibly drugging people to achieve the results and rewards valued in his circle.
While it is interesting to speculate what drug he used, drugging people in church must be as illegal as slipping rohypnol into someone’s drink.

It would be interesting to be an investigator in this case.
Harvey is not available for comment.
His website is typical; rambling, misspelled magical thinking ‘prophecy,’ a blend of bible and new age with opportunity for the faithful to donate or buy.

There you will meet other storm soaring companions and find true connection in the spirit. Eagles get intimate in the air because it’s a safe place of conception. The turkeys can’t reach them there, so they can’t be impregnated with failure just greatness.

Oh.
I feel for people raised in this culture, hooked into this baby Christianity and stuck in false group expectations. I don’t know if many who get hooked would be able to tolerate an orderly church service. Unlearning is not easy.
Their dependence on leadership to the exclusion of thinking and reasoning skills, their copious fears, needs and lack of understanding are very real.
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the trinity - the Paraclete, the one who comes along side to draw us to Christ. He brings glory to the Son, who gives glory to the Father. He is a gentlemen and does not harm, he is not subject to our whims or the commands of self-appointed leaders.

Update: After talking to church leaders the woman decided not to press charges. They told her it was probably scented holy oil.

Unfortunately when it comes to Christianity there are plenty of people willing to harm, willing to exploit, willing to pull out tricks that have been exposed as fraudulent for over a century.

Last year the documentary ‘Jesus Camp’ shocked a new generation who have not seen the beliefs, behaviors and indoctrination common to this movement.

In 1972 the documentary ‘Marjoe’ won the academy award.
At the time was not shown in the southern US because of the feared backlash.
Recently filmmaker Sarah Kernochan re-secured the rights and it is will be released on DVD.
Marjoe Gortner was 4 when his pentecostal parents put him out to perform on the revival circuit.
Marjoe was a ‘Jesus Camp’ kid, abused and used, who went on to abuse others until he decided to get out. The documentary was as shocking then as Jesus Camp is now.
Watch the behaviors - nothing has changed.