Hi Gillian! If you can’t tell the difference between the message I’m bringing and the message the Harlot Church / Mega Church brings then, again, I wonder about your discernment. It is not a matter of whether or not to provide books or teachings, it is a question of feeding a Self-centered faith vs. a Christ-centered faith. People who get the difference are right to praise and applaud things that speak the Truth, point them to Christ, and help them grow; just as they are right to condemn or even make fun of religious hypocrisy masquerading as the Truth. Why are you making it more complicated than that? If it helps, I receive more than my fair share of criticism and condemnation to offset the praise and applause you think I receive. I’m curious as to why *I* am such a huge focus for you and your comments. If you’re getting something from what I have to say then well and good; if not, feel free to move on to someone more to your liking. Either it bears witness or it doesn’t.

This hit me like a rock , thanks for sharing ,

I lived 40 years that way, I had fun, friends, and church status. but I was living in sin and not really repenting because i never changed. I was a “carnal” christian. Now since the Lord did a real work in me. christians usually avoid me , for some reason. It’s great to live with Him, outside the camp and in the wilderness. God is so good.

I just looked up the word “presume” and it is VERY scary. (1)to think that (something) is true without knowing that it is true, (2) to accept legally or officially that something is true until it is proved not true, (3) to do (something) that youdo not have the right or permission to do. (Merriam-Webster) We tend to “delete” the things that are negative, PRESUMING that we are right and “I’m OK, Jack!”…..but can be like the frog in the pot of cold water swimming around happily thinking he was just fine while the heat was turned up on the stove slowly, and he didn’t know he was on “death row” until he died as the water came to boiling point. He presumed. We must be VERY wary of the great and deadly sin of “presumption”.

Your word spoke to me very strongly today. Thank you!

Yes. I always wanted to seek the truth first.
Thus, in spite of I would more often want to be encouraged than destroyed, I continue to look for the principles which are true. Whether the person through whom I receive them is popular or not.

I am always satisfied with what you bring me. How to explain ? You are the gift that God gave me when I shouted to Him. I did not think worthy of a so precious present, but I wanted to receive from the truth. Even if it means all difficulties, all barriers because of language, all hours to decrypt your messages. I’m not disappointed. The gift is like a cave filled with treasures for which I come to look every day (if I’m not too bad).

To use another image .. A friend offered me one day a porcelain cup. I use it every day because it is light and pretty. Sometimes when I have not been able to wash it I use a bowl, but otherwise I use this big cup every day. Some days I put in my favorite drink, my favorite tea, green tea with mint or ginger and lemon, or tea with bergamot. Other days I drink something that I like least… but I do not forget that it is a beautiful present.

So, even if you sometimes put articles which seem to me less pleasant, less encouraging… I do not forget that you are for me, the gift which God offered to me. Even if now I manage better to read English and even if I found the way to read other people’s articles (whom seem to be popular and to have a lot of “likes” Facebook), I would like to tell you Chip, that you remain the only gift that God gave me according to a list of criteria which I expressed Him.And you are only the one towards who I go first and foremost to see what God would want to pass on me through you.

If I thought: ” well I am going to go towards others who are always encouraging, furthermore there is a good reason so that they are so popular “, it would be as to betray God and the present which He made me.

Thank you again Chip to remain so faithful to God and to the truth. 🙂

«We must seriously question things that pass themselves off as “ministry”. It is clear that the practice of “ministry” – whether it comes in the form of a sermon or a song – is becoming synonymous with “Christian Entertainment.” It is not so much what they say as what they fail to say.»

All right, I note it and hope to remember of this… for not go astray/not to mislead myself. 😉 We must not lose sight of these important points wich you explain./These important points which you explain are not to be lost sight.