Mark Johnston Drops from UPCI, Garner Next???

[Jay]

I do not know anything about his wife and her manner of clothing and/or adorning herself. But when I studied the website, I saw nothing that advocated any form of doctrine; there was little or nothing of substance in the way of a statement of faith or belief. Further, I have been wrestling with the topic of beards and mustaches, but I did not feel that his helped to mark him as being separate from the world or the things therein. Further, I heard no passion or caring in his voice. I felt as if I were watching another cookie cutter mega-church style pastor. The type that will say only good things and not name a single sin, whose churches fill, but whose people never leave behind most of their sins.

I also looked at his blog area, and never once did I see anything that spoke of the amazing transformational power of the Holy Ghost or the Name of Jesus. I saw nothing that would ever mark him as being anything more than a Rick Warren style minister.

He spoke of joining him upon a journey, but he never truly said as to where nor what the ultimate goal of the journey was. Many are the people who journey on this road, but only a few people are going to make it to Heaven which is to be the final goal.

I have written none of these things to be harsh and mean spirited, and I hope that I have not come across so. I remember him as a man who while preaching had a passion and fire for the things of God. I see him again preaching with eyes that would flash under the power of God. You would feel as if he knew exactly where you were, and had a message straight from Heaven itself. It is this that I no longer see.

Not all preachers have that, but I thank God for all of them in their sundry gifts. If I remember correctly, it was after his message in 2007 that God explicitly told me what it was that he wanted me to do and made His will known to me.

These are the things that I no longer perceived, and if that is not what you want, I understand. But it will be those very things that I shall mourn now as lost from among the people.