Ardith has written a long and tedious Daily Devotional today using one of her favorite ploys to keep people in line: She entitles it “Do Not Catch The Falling Ark.” If you have been reading right along you will find she used the same title at least another time, and uses the same story over and over again to promote her doctrines and keep her victims in fear.
In this one she is complaining about all the women who have told her she should change her pastor husband and how he preaches: I remember well the one about the woman who told Ardith to tell her husband not to rattle his keys while he preached, (that was her last pastor husband). There are ten more complaints she discloses that women have had against her pastor husbands. She didn’t need anyone to complain about the last one, she needed no help in changing him, when she was ready she found a way to dump him on her own. She did a good job of it, slandering him and causing the whole church to shun and discard him as reprobate. Her actions disintegrated the whole church! She disgraced him even in his workplace. If that wasn’t enough, the whole church that was left after her fiasco prayed for the man’s death! So much for not “catching the Ark!” She didn’t catch him alright , she threw him to the wolves!
I love this next sentence, such a perfect example of cult thinking: “How then could you possibly hope to influence any aspect of the preaching of physical presence of the man God has appointed to be the spiritual authority over you?” This is cult reasoning if I ever heard it! This is cult control at it’s best or worst if you will. It induces and promotes fear. It is also unsound doctrine. A pastor has no exclusive “spiritual authority” over the sheep of the Master. He is a servant, and an underling. Jesus Christ has been given full authority over everything and He alone is the Head of the Church.
Anyway , if the ex-pastor was Ardith’s God appointed spiritual authority, (or is she exempt?) ,why did she dump him and muckle onto another womans husband and lift him up to become pastor of the church? All of her writings are scams and strategies to keep her own little thing going on; Her secret lust for power and control at any cost to anyone else. When God sheds light on the matter it isn’t so secret and covered over anymore. It doesn’t matter who gets in her way, pastors, husbands, mothers, children, friends, they are dumped without mercy if they do not comply! She doesn’t want anyone else to get in the way of her control. She keeps the elders of the church subservient to her, and yesmen who wouldn’t dare cross her or criticize anything she did, or even begin to correct or advise the pastor. Her present pastor/husband as well as the “elders” of the Anchor Missionary Fellowship Church are pitifully like the eunuchs of Jezebel. They are cowards and emasculated excuses for men of God.
Then she gives us the tear-jerking story of a man with MS who preached and she was sooo edified. This grabs the subjects heart and holds on to them while she twists in her cultish teachings and winds them around the Bible story and her version of the “Catching of the falling ark.” She like other cult leaders uses a scary story where God strikes someone dead to get the person to ” do her bidding and stay in line and under her control.” It is deceitful, manipulative, hideous ,and treacherous to the unsuspecting souls who follow her.
Next she warns someone to to “back off.” “Attend to your own business. Honor the Lord’s appointment” (that is until or unless Ardith decides the pastor needs to go, then follow her and dump the guy who used to be “the Ark” ) I do hope and pray someone is asking questions!
Lastly we get the familiar cult message “The worst thing you can do is try to correct the leadership by criticism of small issues.” Criticism is squelched by cult leaders who have to be in control. Even “small issues” are a threat to them because they can not stand up under questions and criticisms. (Why do you think Ardith has closed comments) on he Daily Devotionals? They are only an illusion and a house of cards. Criticism and questions are not allowed by cult leaders because they are held together so loosely without any true foundation or substance. They can only use mind control and fear to hold their victims.
Jesus said to “Be careful what you are hearing.” He , the Son of the Living God told us to “Be Careful and Watchful .” He knew there were impostors who would go from bad to worse. He warned us of “False Shepherds” who were “Wolves in Sheeps clothing and would devour the flock”. He called them “hypocrites, pretenders and liars!” He told us to examine the fruit of a ministry to know it’s source. He made Himself very clear ,and we would do well to take a fresh look when we see things that don’t seem to add up , where leaders have flimsy excuses and inappropriate explanations.
Friend, don’t let such subjects as “Do Not Catch The Falling Ark” hold you in the grip of fear. Fear God not man! When you see behaviors of leaders that are in direct conflict with doctrines you know to be true such as Christian divorce, shunning of whole families for simply asking questions, dishonoring parents, one woman in total control of everything and everyone in the church, leaders who have been divorced several times themselves; Don’t be fooled. Trust the Holy Spirit and your own conscience! These actions are all against the Word of God. You know for yourself the Lord hates divorce and he said leaders may not be divorced. He said “No one is your master only Jesus is” He loves all of His little sheep. He said “Honor your father and your mother.” The false leaders use and twist in other frightening subjects to distract you from God’s basic Truth’s in order to keep you under their control and under their false doctrines.
Brothers and sisters there is freedom, light, peace, hope, faith, no fear of man or woman, and the blessed fruit of the spirit outside of the cult. What they have is fake and pretense. Jesus is always there for His people and although false shepherds may slander and lie about you, shun and abandon you, and cut you off from the flock , Jesus our Lord, will never leave you or forsake you. These false leaders are unfaithful servants , and He will deal with them in His own time. You will find Him alone to be faithful, and it is He who counts. Reach out and cling to Him trusting in His Word and His faithfulness. The good part about being cut off and thrown away is that if you truly desire Him, Jesus Christ becomes your All in All, and that is what is needed in the life of any Christian. It will be worth it all when we see Jesus!
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