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 They are trying to outdo each other in "spirit" to show greater affinity for their possessor. 
 That's kind of what i'm getting at though. They are faking it and they know it. 
 At least partially, or it feels that way. I used to attend a church like this in my childhood and it made me disinterested in Christianity. It always felt fake to me, like I was somehow not a true Christian because I didn't have the same type of feelings these people displayed. That's the worst part of it all IMO. It isn't that it's not real, it's that those who don't experience it are somehow less Christian according to their dogma. Satan uses this as an inroad to make Christians in these churches feel like they aren't REALLY Christian if they aren't like this. 
 That's exactly how it is used.

If you don't do X you aren't Christian, mmk 
 There are numerous examples of those who with aid of the spirit could speak in tongues, but those were human tongues the hearers could understand, and to evangelize Jesus Christ of Nazareth as our savior. It was also a rare gift. That has none of the markings of it. No society converses in flop. 
 Some do, I also suspect some don't. That may be even worse for the preacher down the road.