When I was a wee little tacker in the RCI I remember talking to one of the older 'brothers' who told me a story about some lady and her encounter with the supernatural etc.  It was a forgetful story but what he said afterwards has stuck with me.  I asked him what happened to her and he said something like, "Oh she ran off after Billy Graham and denied tongues as being necessary."  At the time I thought, "How could anyone be so stupid?  How could anyone leave the RCI and say their doctrine is not true?"  We looked on people who left the Revival Centre as somehow 'less' than us.  Disobedient, lovers of sin, haters of God, lovers of false doctrine...at best deceived.  

Of course, almost all of us on this forum know exactly how that woman could have left.  After all, we discovered or uncovered information that we earlier had no knowledge of and this information forced us to reinterpret our experiences with the Revival Centre groups.  We then came to very different conclusions than we had earlier and thus left the group(s).   Perhaps it was some theological information, someone's testimony, some hypocrisy we saw first-hand, perhaps it was just something very, very wrong with the groups or leaders that came to our attention.

Being on the other side of the line between members and ex-members, we realized that those who left before us were not evil, haters of God or even deceived.  Rather, most who left before us had legitimate reasons for leaving the groups.

Yes, you know all this, so what's my point?

Well someone on the forum recently said something to me that has made me think and made me feel I need to have my say, to defend myself to some degree.  The original posts and context can be found here:

Someone named Lahad said,  

In my opinion Te Luo Yi is a closed case and all the debating, discussion and intellectual interaction will avail a mere nothing..

Te Luo Yi may say he doesn't believe in Jesus anymore but then that is a misnomer because Te Luo Yi could not have known Jesus in the first place. The Kingdom comes via revelation to the individual through the only means of repentance... How true is the statement and promise from Jesus " I will love him, and will manifest myself to him" and " we will come unto him, and make our abode with him " ... The truth is, God will accept you exactly as you are where you are without any shred of recommendation and meet with you right where you are and all it takes is your repentance that brings your willingness to submit to him. Then the process of sanctification by His capable hands can begin.

But without that revelation of Jesus, the issue of being called a christian is a non event. The Kingdom of God results in an ongoing interactive relationship which the Bible likens to sonship.

I am really pleased at the way our exchanges have developed of late.  I don't mean that to patronise you, and if I did  then I would have to patronise myself as well as it takes 2 to tango.    Perhaps both of us have mellowed with age?  Ot maybe you're just becoming a Lukewarm Liberal?

The line in my post, "I truly don't meant to insult anyone" was actually meant for you.  I didn't want to 'undo' all that we had seemed to have built of late.  I realised you were rebuking Lahad, but I guess I also wanted to point out that I feel my lack of belief will have no negative consequences...from where I stand.

Ciao