RDP

[rdp]

Originally Posted by Titus2woman

I had to do a little thinking and a lot of praying on why I have been so negatively affected by your posts and here are some of my conclusions:

You represent everything I ever hated about a movement I am as quickly distancing myself from as possible. While I do not know you personally, I feel like I have met you 100 times, in the preachers who say hateful things over pulpits everywhere. Who laugh at those who 'only got wet' at their baptisms, who gleefully talk about all who will burn forever in tormenting hell for some small mistake they do not even know they are making, who leave people confused and unable to ever trust in God.

First, if one is not water baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ their sins are not forgiven or washed away. It is very-very-very clear that you do not understand these basic soteriological truths (neither does Jason Badejo & I plan to expose this in him when I get some time) & you are leaving "because you were not of us" in the first place.

Second, there is a difference in being excited because you know the truth & being excited because others do not. I rejoice in the former & weep for the latter (& have done so until I could not walk straight afterwards). You are confusing the two.

Third, I do not know of one-single truly Apostolic preacher who "gleefully talks about people burning in Hell" over anything......& I know more than I could ever count (& Elder Epley is God's go-to man for info. on who is who in Apostolic Pentecost ). Are there some who exist? I suppose so, but I do not fellowship them.....& you could probably hold their "conferences" in a phone-booth!

You are simply swatting at your own shadows in an effort to sustain your own vindictive demeanor. Funny thing is, when supposedly took some personal inventory....Geeee, what happens? Why, the problem was with others & not yourself....Woo-Hoo!.....You get a free-pass again ! Imagine that.



The preacher who I watched have a man crawl around the platform begging God to save him, while so many of us sat sickened but feeling powerless to stop it. The preacher who bragged from the pulpit about how he refused to pray with a dying saint in the hospital because someone had turned the television on in her room, even though she pleaded with him to pray because she had been conditioned to believe that she could be neither saved nor healed without his prayers.

Television is horrid & no Christian should have one in their home....Period (& pls. spare me the silly "Internet is worse" argument). If I have explain the evils of T.V. to you, no wonder you are where you are today (spiritually). However, personally, I would certainly pray for a "saint" who had a T.V. on in a hospital (& did so recently) & allow the grace & love of God to convict their hearts....& YES, I would teach about the evils of it when I felt the time was right.

I have known of men who do things such as you state above (having a man crawl on platform)....& you know what? I think such a preacher is just as backslid as you are! I do not fellowship these types & when I learn of them through eyewitnesses I goad them for it when I get an opportunity (on-line or personally). They are in sin & need soundly rebuking. I am just as hard on this type of stupidity as I am on Ultra-Libs....& do not care if they know it either.



Yes, you epitomize the controlling pastor I've saw tell people to give up their vacations and give the money to building fund while he took his family to the holy-land for 2 weeks in an all expense paid vacation given to him by the church membership. The pastors who can not even live in the neighborhoods where their churches are because there simply are not big enough Mc Mansions for them. The ones who dress down their congregations for the tiniest infractions of their dress codes and are later found sleeping with the church secretary or molesting girls from the youth.

Oh yes, I am the "epitome of a child molestor," "dress down my congregation," all the while I live the "life of Riley" ?

Let's see if the above characterizations apply to me.....Are you ready (remember, you asked for this)? I walked away from an Assistant position of a church running approximately between 150 people (& the pastor is getting up in age with health problems), was financially sound, owned my own business, etc. to attempt to plant a church where there was virtually no Apostolic witness of any type in the immediate area.

There have been many-many-many times we have literally survived on peanut-butter sandwiches for lunch & ramen noodles, while we go to church & stare at 2 families who wanted us to come, but pay their tithes when they feel like it & have NEVER put even $5 in the offering plate (I don't think they've even put $1). I have taken in people whom I knew were trouble because I wanted to try & salvage their soul through loving them & teaching/preaching to them (& what do you think they did?). When others were running them off, I was taking them in in order to try & help them.

I have worn the same two Wal-Mart suits for approximately 6 years now & when I go on vacation, I shoulder the load myself & usually take someone else with me & pay much of their way (as I did in January). We are renting a church building for $750/Mo. in addition to having our own personal bills (rent, car notes, etc.)....All so there can be biblical truth in a town with essentially no witness.

I am a volunteer chaplain at the local hospital, have helped tornado victims on their homes, gave money we did not have to homeless, broke personal records fasting for this city, knocked doors, ministered in prisons, nursing homes, taught home Bible studies, went to drug-infested areas to reach for them, etc. I am not boasting inasmuch as I really do not feel I have done enough...Because we are still looking at a sparse crowd.


Very recently walked away from another pastorate wherein my wife & I could have lived in a 3 bedroom, 2 bth. parsonage with no rent & could have been full-time w/out having to hold a secular job. The church building was paid for, a new church-van paid for & we had a decent number of folks to work with in an ABSOLUTELY BREATH-TAKING BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN TOWN!!

O' yes, my flesh wanted to remain there forever....But I resigned, because I did not feel I had given the other town a good enough effort to establish a church & my conscience would have haunted me forever (I was actually pastoring two churches at the time). And, in about an hour, I am heading to a part-time job that I assumed so I can work with more people in the community & hopefully lead some one to the truth.


And, tomorrow, I plan on beating any visitor who may show up !

You are a very foolish woman.



You hide behind anonymity here and spout your self-righteousness, show disdain and disapproval for others, make pronouncements about the status of others salvation and it disturbs the heck out of me. Because while you, on your own, would be nothing more than a good laugh to me, you do these things in a place where many of the people have a lifetime of abuse by horrible pseudo-preachers like yourself behind them. They are sensitized to it, and you add to their burdens and make them feel that they have to defend their most basic human right, to worship God in their own way. You make them question whatever progress they have made toward healing, you open old scars and salt healing wounds.



Yes, "horrible pseudo-preachers like myself" who, when he resigned the church he pastored in the deep south several years ago overheard the piano player weeping in the bathroom on my last day....& there wasn't hardly a dry-eye in the building. Oh, BTW, that's the church I took that had a "for sale" sign on it with three people & was in deplorable condition.

When I left, the building was completely remodeled, roses were (& still are) planted on the lawn, a new, beautiful lighted sign out front, & were running close to 25 people....Many of whom are still there today & would love for me to come back (long story). Again, I am not boasting in any way because I honestly do not feel like I have done enough.

The "old scars" are begotten from your rebellious-stubborn heart....& I would loveeeeee to talk to your previous pastor(s) & see what info. they might could share with us about you! I am quite sure, based upon your postings on here, the other side of the coin is quite enlightening !


And worst of all... YOU DO IT SIMPLY FOR SPORT.


Oh yes, here, let me run....I've got some Kool-Aid to make for tomorrow !


No, I am not a victim. I am a survivor... And you RDP... are a monster.

Hmmm, you just finished rambling incessantly about how you were so hurt by those mean ol' pastors (who are not here to defend themselves & I am 110% CERTAIN they would have quite another story)....But, you're "not a victim" ?

You are merely a loose-canon seeking to justify your hatred toward righteous living by playing the tired-worn-out "victim" card.

Well, let me run.....Gotta' get fitted for my dress & purse (check back in later tonight) !