Challenge to my detractors from CCG

[onesimus_jones (onesimus_jones)]

If you brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won you brother over. Mt 18:15 (NIV)

I have received supportive comments both publicly and privately. But none of those who have issues with me have had the integrity and/or courage and/or fidelity to Scripture to contact me privately, as was requested in the CCG thread entitled "hello."

Some of those people are putting out flippant remarks, misleading innuendos, and vague accusations.

I would prefer to be in right relationship with each of them, whether or not we agree on our issues.

At Community Chapel, those who crossed the leader were given the bum's rush. The practice is being renewed at CCG.

Before publicly taking the offending parties to task, I'll await their emails.

Please don't try the phone # I gave out at CCG - that phone is lost.

[calv (calv)]

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They are acting out in text book fashion the very things cc programmed them to.The beauty of it is that they expose that behaviour. That means people start to think. They have to make a choice. Who is right, who is wrong. We can say what ever we want, but it means nothing. Its what we do, by the things that we say and the way we act. Actions speak louder than words!
God is a lot bigger than the little concepts we have.
Man tries to make God small by defining him in thier own terms.... that is creating an idol. That is what we did
at CC...Our own form of godliness.
I would rather be small, stand next to the ocean and take in all that God is. There is so much more than my puny little mind can ever comprehend, Its good to know HE is in control. Not much changes, man is man, they all play the same silly little games. The void inside can never be filled by our small definitions of who HE is.
Thru the ages he has been faithful to all who call on his name. He has met men in spite of our religions, and done great things thru mere men who put thier faith in him. Its NOT" our faith" that does the work..Its the gift he gave us. The example he sent. The reason we have hope in the darkness. What we really need to do is open our eyes...Old things have passed away, all thing have been made new. So do we want to go back to Egypt? What did we learn from chapel? I learned not to look to men or those around me, not to lean on my own understanding, in all my ways acknowlage hin and he will direct my paths. Since Chapel Ive seen the exact things get played out over again. Man thinks the "ministrey " is his, they want top own it, but in the end the same thing always happens....man falls flat on his face. Its time to wake up and destroy the IDOL...not rebuild it, put it back up on a pedistal.
Things are not what they appear, its very easy to be fooled. Ive been fooled a few too many times. Ther is a price to be paid when you stand up for what you belive in...so I want to be sure what im standing up for. I found I dont have to do much of anything except show up and walk with those on lifes journey . By searching his word, i learn have no other gods and to love my neighbor as myself. Pretty simple...but not easy. so many pits to fall into. CC was a pit! Sure God was still in the pit... but he deliverd me from that pit. Looking back,
I see the pit for what it is...some are still in the pit. They just dont know it ...YET. But I think that the time has come and He will expose that by thier very own actions.
The very words they speak...will snare them!

[onesimus_jones (onesimus_jones)]

Thanks Calv,

You have a lot to say, and I for one am glad you are saying it.