Post by rjkee on Feb 29, 2008 3:52:00 GMT -5
Hi,
Below is a 'tongue-in-cheek' letter composed by the Ex-Professor. It was only send to a discussion forum.
Regards
Robert
PS By way of background, he was forced to split up with a non-2x2 girlfriend or face excommunication.
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Dear Thomas,
Thanks for excommunicating me a few years ago. If it hadn't been for you I might never have escaped from the "only church not started by man". Imagine a church started by a woman! Next thing you know they'll be looking for an Overseer's job although I suppose if there was any of that nonsense you could always excommunicate them too!
Anyway, sorry it's taken so long to write but I have been rather busy.You must be very busy too, being one of the only true preachers preaching the gospel as Jesus commanded in Mathew 10.
Tell me, are you preaching every day?
Or have you been taken up healing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers, casting out devils, having no money in your purse nor shoes on your feet, being delivered up to the councils and being scourged in the synagogues, being brought before governors and kings, and being hated by all men for Jesus sake. I imagine you are always on the move fleeing from city to city when persecution arises yet still being brave enough to preach upon the housetops that which the Lord has revealed to you. By the way, do you ever see any of those poor people to whom you gave your money when you sold all to preach the gospel as Jesus commanded?
I tell you mate, there must be easier ways. In the church my parents go to, the ministry only have to preach for an hour twice a week and only from August to April! They get to stay in the best homes and drive about in big flash cars - none of this nowhere to lay their head and riding on a donkey - and people give them money regularly. In fact they get so much money that not only do they dress well, they actually have enough to travel all over the world by air and, if you don't mind, some of them even have personal laptop computers with connections to the Internet for reasons which are beyond me.
(Though they vehemently deny this for reasons which are even more beyond me).
No poor homeless strangers here! Also there is none of that street preaching nor shouting from the rooftops anymore as apparently the days of street preaching are now gone so there isn't much persecution, in fact they rarely meet anyone who isn't a member of their church so there isn't any persecution at all! I'm sure they don't miss those scourgings in the synagogues one bit.
I tell you, those blokes Irvine, Walker, Carroll and Cooney knew what they were about! Especially after they realised that with everyone being a preacher there was no one to support the preachers, so they changed the rules so you could be saved without becoming a preacher and instigated the meeting in the home as an essential. Mind you it seemed a pretty major thing to overlook in the first place but I suppose we all are a bit absent minded sometimes. It was only last night that I couldn't remember whether I was getting into the bath or out of the bath!
The ExProfessor, Ireland
Below is a 'tongue-in-cheek' letter composed by the Ex-Professor. It was only send to a discussion forum.
Regards
Robert
PS By way of background, he was forced to split up with a non-2x2 girlfriend or face excommunication.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Thomas,
Thanks for excommunicating me a few years ago. If it hadn't been for you I might never have escaped from the "only church not started by man". Imagine a church started by a woman! Next thing you know they'll be looking for an Overseer's job although I suppose if there was any of that nonsense you could always excommunicate them too!
Anyway, sorry it's taken so long to write but I have been rather busy.You must be very busy too, being one of the only true preachers preaching the gospel as Jesus commanded in Mathew 10.
Tell me, are you preaching every day?
Or have you been taken up healing the sick, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers, casting out devils, having no money in your purse nor shoes on your feet, being delivered up to the councils and being scourged in the synagogues, being brought before governors and kings, and being hated by all men for Jesus sake. I imagine you are always on the move fleeing from city to city when persecution arises yet still being brave enough to preach upon the housetops that which the Lord has revealed to you. By the way, do you ever see any of those poor people to whom you gave your money when you sold all to preach the gospel as Jesus commanded?
I tell you mate, there must be easier ways. In the church my parents go to, the ministry only have to preach for an hour twice a week and only from August to April! They get to stay in the best homes and drive about in big flash cars - none of this nowhere to lay their head and riding on a donkey - and people give them money regularly. In fact they get so much money that not only do they dress well, they actually have enough to travel all over the world by air and, if you don't mind, some of them even have personal laptop computers with connections to the Internet for reasons which are beyond me.
(Though they vehemently deny this for reasons which are even more beyond me).
No poor homeless strangers here! Also there is none of that street preaching nor shouting from the rooftops anymore as apparently the days of street preaching are now gone so there isn't much persecution, in fact they rarely meet anyone who isn't a member of their church so there isn't any persecution at all! I'm sure they don't miss those scourgings in the synagogues one bit.
I tell you, those blokes Irvine, Walker, Carroll and Cooney knew what they were about! Especially after they realised that with everyone being a preacher there was no one to support the preachers, so they changed the rules so you could be saved without becoming a preacher and instigated the meeting in the home as an essential. Mind you it seemed a pretty major thing to overlook in the first place but I suppose we all are a bit absent minded sometimes. It was only last night that I couldn't remember whether I was getting into the bath or out of the bath!
The ExProfessor, Ireland