just want to say first that i don't wish to offend anyone or disregard anything said- i'm just in a mingle and tangle at the moment.

I'm not sure what your previous posts were... but I don't think people are easily offended here. Actually, the trolling posters breed a certain amount of distrust for genuine anonymous posters, but I'll give the benefit of the doubt because I can relate wholeheartedly with what you've written.. that and I'm hard to shut up.

I am thinking of returning to a revival church. I had been going for many years but when one of the splits occured my family decided to leave. I have parents who have been dragging me round from church to church for many many years now and i'm tired of it.

Which split are you talking about? Surely not the big 95 split 11 years ago?

I believe that if you have tounges it is clear that u have the holy spirit but whether u need to speak in tounges first to know that u have it i'm unsure. Now i know that i have said the same thing but in reverse and i'm sure many will mention that but like i said i'm in a mingle.

Well, I don't have to tell you that I think tongues is an over-rated ability to speak random vocalisations and that pretty much anybody with a mouth can do it... I don't have to tell you that, so I won't. I do dig that it's a hard belief to shake.. I mean, I did spend 17 years in Revival preaching that doctrine. You'll have to come to your own epiphany on that one.

I don't feel happy in all these churchs i've been to. I just can't feel comfortable with the torronto blessing and the way some places keep dragging the singing out, while many lift their hands as if the power of the lord is like electricity running down into them.

Heck, I know what you mean. Crazy is as crazy does.

 Again i wan't to say that I'M NOT TRYING TO CRITICISE ANY CHURCH OR PERSON. I don't believe that not talking to others outside the rf/rci churches is right- it's wrong in my eyes.

There's a lot of double negatives in that sentence... but yeah, you should feel free to talk to anyone. You're a big person with your own mind and no one has the right to tell you who you can and can't talk to. Freedom seems to be something that many of us feel is too good to be true... or we're not free to be free. I think the new testament bible has a lot to say about freedom and grace and how we should embrace it.

I'm at an age where i am thinking of the future. I wan't to get married and have children but i don't want to rush into anything. ...eveyone here that i've read seems to be very happy that they've left but why am i the opposite- why am i unhappy? has anyone else felt this way- wanting now to return? am i thinking the right thing?

gAwd... yes, please for criminy sake, don't rust into anything. You may be thinking about eternity and spirituality but don't forget that you've a long life ahead of you here. Life is so damn hard without the mistake of shaking your head in regret for making the wrong decision at those big crossroad moments. You know what I mean? Some decisions open life and the heart and soul... other decisions restrict and restrain it. Did you ever see that Pixar movie short 'knick knack' where the snowman in the snow globe tried so desperately to get out? Churches can be such a lifetrap.

Whodo nailed it when he said  - "They don't know what else there is besides church and thus many times mistake that for the emptiness that happens when god is not in your life"

Hi everyone

Thank-you so much for your helpful coments. It means a lot. I was just wanting to ask if anyone knows of a good church that i could feel comfortable with. A church though that doesn't have the whole torronto blessing thing.

Thanks

Anon.

Sorry i didn't say where. A church in Melbourne, Australia (Victoria)

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Sorry i didn't say where. A church in Melbourne, Australia (Victoria)

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