Hi John,
I have been listening to the Old Meeting CDs that brother Earl sent in the mail. They are wonderful! I have listened to CD-153 several times now, the one with your father preaching in Louisville in 1974. I love the feelings I get from listening to your father preach. I love the confidence I felt from him and the love of God that comes with it as he is telling the truth that God gave him.
There is such peace and rest that is conveyed through his preaching that it just melts your heart and touches your soul. I love it, John. I feel the same way when I hear you preach and teach. It just settles the spirit and brings peace and rest for our souls. At one point in the 1974 meeting, your father was talking about people being filled with the Blessing and yet after being born, not having any good food to eat because they have no one to feed them the truth. I could tell in you fathers voice and in his walk with the Lord that he had seen that, over and over again, many time.
John, I can see how important it was and is to have a place where you can be fed the word of God and not all the junk that Christianity has to offer. What your father labored for was a place where people who felt the call of God on their life could come and find rest and live a sin-free, holy life, and could work to help all of the brethren who wanted the same thing, a place of rest and love in the real worship of God in his spirit.
John, I know no other place I would rather be then where I am right now, with you and all the wonderful saints Jesus has put around us, people who love the truth. Your father started a work, through God’s help, which has helped thousands of Gods people all over this world to know who they are in Christ. Thank you, John, for following in your father’s footsteps and continuing to bless so many of God’s people all over the world. I know it is God that has led you, but you had to yield to the calling, and love it, and put it to work, and provide a place for people to come and learn about the God they love and want to know.
Thanks
Stuart