I was born in a non-Christian family. Only me and my 2nd brother were exposed to Christianity when we attended the homeschool called Wisdom Spring Academy. I attended a charismatic church from 11 – 17 years old. The theology I was fed with for 6 years plus was soft-core prosperity gospel and old school charismatic. There were speaking of tongues, prophetic dancing, prophetic drawing, sermons on dreams and visions, and one of the youth camps I attended was on the signs of the end of the world and how the mark of the beast is present among us. In the camp, the pastor mentioned that if your feet felt hot, you have the Spirit on you. My feet were hot during their ‘praise and worship,’ I thought I had an encounter with God at that camp because I could finally feel the presence of the Spirit for the first time in years. Later I realized, at the age of around 15 or 16, I had the same feeling when I was just standing for too long, that’s when I stopped believing this stuff . I became more skeptical of their teaching, started to find their teaching more and more inconsistent with reality, (eg. promises of prosperity and God answering our prayer as long as we have faith), and I eventually stopped attending it when I was at Taylors.
I never thought of even stepping foot into the CF when I was in Taylors, I only ended up going because I followed my nominal Christian friend to their welcoming party. That’s when I realized the commitment and passion that they had for the Bible. I decided to give Christianity a second chance by attending Taylors Christian Fellowship. The question bothered me, ‘what’s there to be passionate about the Bible?’ I stayed on to find out through their Bible studies and 1on1 with Justin Liew, and that’s when I started reading the Bible for the first time, I started to understand who God is through the book of Romans. TCF made me realize that I had a problem with God and it took me six months of struggling with the Scriptures for me to be convicted of the God of the Bible.