Daily Deprogramming

God’s nature is Love. God is Love. If anyone claims to be  growing more like Him all the time they would certainly be known for their love more and more as time went on. When that person was spoken of one would immediately think, “What a loving and kind person. What a giving , merciful and compassionate person!”

However, when one talks about love , but knows nothing of genuine loving  at all , they are only vague descriptions and are nothing more than empty words.  This person’s  mouth is a “Yawning grave” as Jesus said of the Pharisee’s.  Without true Holy Spirit Love,  their hollow attempts at  belching out the sounds of Love are merely ”the echos of a sounding gong” as Paul so aptly put it.  Genuine Love does not bounce around like an echo, off the walls and off the page, but it penetrates the heart and soul of a person, and that person is changed by it. 

Ardith’s words cannot penetrate the heart because they are merely human words without any Holy Spirit substance and have no power to change a person.  This is why you can be with her for 20 years and never progress beyond a minute understanding of the Love of God, you may desire to change,  in fact you go backwards instead of forward when it comes to love. This is why you can keep seeking  for more , and as she repeats her identical  mimicries of the same pretty words, and smooth sayings over and over again , you end up in the same corner of the same little box again and again listening to the same muffled imitations of the Truth and echos of imitations.   She speaks of change, but there is none because her words are only second-hand  echos of echos of echos……..without the Source of Love , Power, and Life,  Jesus Christ.

When someone teaches  not getting even, then takes another Christian to court it is hypocricy. When someone (even a Christian leader) refuses to sit down and be willing to look at his own behavior and answer questions and even criticism’s humbly, and would rather shun and abuse whole families than admit his or her own moral failure, their pride and self-preservation does not resemble Jesus Christ in the least. There is lot’s of fear here,  lot’s of pride, but no Holy Spirit Love.

A leader of Christians who isn’t humble enough to lower himself to lift up another  as Jesus did , knows nothing of Love.  Jesus said to go after the  one lost sheep. He didn’t say to abuse and shun it.  He didn’t give permission to break up families to protect yourselves, or to  covet (lust after) another mans family to replace the family you gave up.  There are no special rules for leaders that allow leaders special rights to lord it over Gods flock in order to enrich themselves for any reason. 

When you see a Church that has shrunk from scores to ten or twelve people , something is wrong.  A good , healthy church grows, increases and bears fruit, like a good healthy tree does.  Brothers and sisters, look at the fruit. Love is the greatest of fruit!  Where there is Love people are drawn.  The Anchor Church is cold and dark like a tomb.  “It is full of dead men’s bones”, as Jesus said. There is no life there.  It has only one person’s likeness and personality ,and that person is not Jesus. The voices of Love echo around the corners of the church, and  some love may be found in a few hearts, but as time goes on and the echo’s grow quiet, love grows more distant as God turns His head away from their sinful abuses, and the idolatry of following after one persons empty discriptions of love instead of Love Personified , Jesus Christ………

May He shake them hard  and wake them up!  May He break through the enemy’s stronghold and pull down the high places of idolatry, pride and arrogance in the leadership of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church!  No matter how faint the last traces of love become , our God is the God of the impossible!  He is still Able to  blow on the embers and revive them.  Faith, Hope and Love abide, but the greatest of these is Love!   Lord Jesus, may Your Love reach Your people and turn them around!  May You alone be Glorified!