To All My Precious Friends

Yes, it is true.  We are the brave ones.  The ones God chose to walk away from the dead Message Cult, unharmed.  He said the gates of hell would not prevail against us, and daily we see how the Message cult spirits try to fight against the freedom that Jesus gave us, and they fail.  Dismally.  We did not leave this cult as an organization.  We did not even influence each other.  Each one of us has an Amazing Testimony of how God took him/her out.  I will cherish mine throught out Eternity.  I know that it was love for my fellow-man (the hated denominational brother) that made me leave the Cult, and when I see that God is Love; my heart never stops pounding with Joy.

But here's a question to all of us.

• How many of us can still visit the churches that we left, simply because we want to show them the love of God?
• How many of us can still pick up the phone and call the pastor of the church we left, just to say "Hello"?
• How many of us can send a little gift to the Message pastor of the church we last attended before we saw the Light?

If we can't do these things, then we are still in the cult.  We left the cult, but the bondage of the cult is still with us.  We mustn't fool ourselves; without that we're just as much in darkness as we were before.  If we claim to be enlightened, then let the character of Jesus shine through us.  If we can't, then maybe we should also shut up about this whole thing.  After all, why should we live on the "mote in the my brother's eye" revelation, when we're swimming in the filth self-preservation and...I...I...I? 

Our Lord Jesus told us that the Pharisee would salute the Pharisee.  The Message believer would call the Message believer "Brother" (hypocrites!)  But he also added a "call to perfection" and said, "but if thou will be perfect. . ."  In other words, it takes the perfect Love that they claim to have to treat as brothers.  If we can't salute them either, we're not better than the mess they're in.  All Hail King Jesus!