Pastor John,
I just had to write you my heart is about to explode with thoughts and feelings. I was listening to the CD “God’s right and I’m wrong”. wow! I LOVE ALL THESE FEELINGS!!! I loved how you were talking about being perfection and how we have a wrong idea about it. You said being perfect is relative to where you are now and what you know now. John, that was something I know you have said before, but this time, it just went deep. I think it is because for the first time in my life I feel like I am learning the mind of Christ. It is like you are free — free to live, free to make mistakes (not sin but make mistakes) and live and learn God. My heart is exploding!
On that CD, Darren is singing “Come On With Me”. That is best way to put what I feel — an invitation to go with Him. Also the other day, Paul and I were driving down the road and we saw a man on a motorcycle. He looked like [our former pastor]. We looked at each other and had the same thoughts and feelings of thankfulness. I was thanking God for sending you in 2001 to SAVE US. I was thinking, “Where would we be?” and then I looked at my children and cried. We are finally in a place to learn and live, and I am so Thankful. I was trying to describe this to Ellen P. and she kept saying she could not fully understand what we were saying (because she had never been under the religious bondage and oppression that we once were under), but it was real for us. But God sent you so that we could learn how to live. I feel like I am just starting to live and learn my Father. Thank you for all you have done for us.
Jammie
==========
Jesus said that the truth would set free those who follow him. You are just one of many examples of being liberated. I heard an old meeting CD yesterday from 1973, in which my father was preaching and warning some people that when they gathered for meetings, they were only “looking for a place to shout”. He said, “shouting isn’t serving God; that’s God serving you!” Serving God begins when we leave a meeting, not when we get there. The blessings He gives when we meet are Him serving us His bread of life. Let’s eat together, and then go out and serve Him and others!
Pastor John