by Rosa L. Knickelbine
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In response to the article, "Brownsville Revival, an Analysis", the following letter was received.
While I saw some good things on your website to glean from, I was
concerned about the article concerning the Brownsville revival. Now, I personally don't
believe opinion is blasphemy, but I didn't agree with the author of this article.
For approximately 2 years and 2 months I served at the Brownsville Revival. While there were some things I questioned which may have been in the
flesh, a religious spirit, or even perhaps egotism, I
personally experienced and saw other things I knew very definitely to
be of God. Originally I went to this revival out of a desire to 'worship', and had been back and forth to this Church over the years
because the worship style was somewhat freer and the presence of God
was there, and it was sweet.
I was also healed emotionally of a broken heart and a root of
bitterness due to some family problems, and the joy of my salvation was
restored to me at the beginning of my time there. I will not go into
the reasons why I left, My God the God of Heaven knows 1) why he
allowed me to be a part (and it was a dual purposed situation), and 2) why He had me to leave and I don't want to talk about that, except to
say that while I do believe in fervency, fire, love, and Holy Passion,
there must be balance in our lives as well, at least for me.
But I do want to admonish the author of the "Analysis" article that even with all of their intellect and
scriptural knowledge, they may want to "loosen their tie" a bit.
God does indeed touch His people, and He is not impressed with dead
tradition and formalism any more than He is NONSENSE. However, He
WILL meet anyone who is seeking and searching for Him with their
whole heart, and that means people that have gone to Brownsville looking - with their
lives a mess and a muck. He will reveal himself to
them amidst what is happening whether there is error or not. I
haven't found a church or denomination without some error, but I do
find a cold dead religious service more disgustingly unappealing then
someone falling down or laughing uncontrollably (what a horrible thing
to do).
I know that at Brownsville there is not a bunch of Sign Seekers! Most of the people I
know there truly love the Lord with all their hearts. And some of the
things described I personally have never heard or even seen at
Brownsville at all!
I am sorry, but the Word of God is full of "weird" things; from people
being accused of being drunk with wine when they were under the
influence of the Holy Spirit, to disappearing and reappearing two or
three cities away; from God riding through the heavens to someone's
rescue on winged creatures, to wheels with eyes. It is a book of
supernatural phenomenon, my "Word Brother", we are talking about a God
who is building a city that He is going to drop out of heaven for us. Don't you think we might possibly experience something we can't explain
in our rational thinking? Do you think the Apostle Paul's experience
was recorded somewhere? Or what about the annunciation to Mary, that
was in the Old Testament and she still wasn't believed? If the
Messiah were to be born to this generation though, I suppose a
nowaday Mary would be a false prophetess and delusional as well.
I believe there is room for improvement in all Churches and I do
understand the need for discernment, but do you understand? It does
work both ways.
Sincerely-in-Christ,
Rosa L. Knickelbine
PS The church needs to stop all this quibbling over this kind of
stuff and get on their face before God for this Nation. If someone
has to shake or fall down to get it right and walk straight, so be it.
We are facing serious hard times, and we need to join hands in the battle
before some things began to happen and we wished we had been "praying"
instead of writing dissertations on the evils of so
called false doctrine - what is of God and what is not, and/or what started
when and stopped when (apostolic). We need to be preaching and
praying in repentance for this nation and not finding fault with places
where repentance is being established.
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