Reply To shiningdown
(Date Posted:25/07/2008 18:07:20)
Reply to shiningdown My husband and I are the very people who Daryl was speaking about at this particular talk. We had stopped going to the RF in Janurary, but we were invited to (and happily went) to a good friend of mine's daughter's 1st birthday party. We must have been naive, but we wondered why there was some sort of tension there when we walked in. Then it finally happened - a big blow up hapened between my friend, her brother and his wife (who happened to be Daryls daughter). They said that they had to leave because WE were there! It was horrid and my friends daughter's birthday was ruined. Had we known or predicted what would have happened we would never have gone. Needless to say - the next day Daryl gave his now famous 'talk' and my poor parents (who still attended the RF at the time) had to sit through and endure the whole meeting knowing full well what he was actually referring to. It still blows me away to this day!!!  Hi, thanks for responding. I'm curious to know whether Williams has since apologised for spewing this dispicable diatribe ten years ago. I wonder if he heard the recording again now would feel an absolute idiot for preaching such vile or would he nod and smile like an idiot saying 'amen'all the way? I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt and hope that he cringes whenever he remembers being as soulless as this. The hate and fear you can hear in his voice is surely something RF try to avoid now isn't it? When I heard this recording I assumed it was RCIers talking about the members that left their ranks and their new doctrine of unforgiveness, but I was surprised (and not surprised also) that it came from a preacher from RF. I know this sort of violent 'shunning' isn't so vigorously yelled at other Revival Fellowship assemblies, and I bet many would argue that this sort of shunning is discouraged nowadays. The recording was only ten years ago and I remember being the sort of person who would have agreed with his views on how to treat people who left our church, or cult, or whatever the hey you want to call it. Even if this isn't spat from the pulpits anymore, you know it's sitting there quietly under the surface. It's mellowed now but the groundwork has been laid. "If they're not with us they either should be or never were. If they choose not to come back then keep subtley hinting to them that they are missed..." and then not so subtley suggest the world is ending soon so they better change their minds quick. The Revivalists (like countless other churches) truly believe that their slack-jawed hackneyed interpretation of bible text and home written fellowship rules are the closest thing to what they believe the church originators (and God) would have their lives and meetings run. To leave their fold should obviously be an action that deserves pity, prayer and a dose of distain. Such a belief set will keep them labelled as a sect because they willfully choose to bring discord to family and friends that quite rightly choose to leave their faux fold. So I would be interested in knowing if an apology was forthcoming from DW. Did he repent publically or does he still exist as a leader of people with this perverse mindset at his core?
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Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle - Anita Roddick
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