Originally Posted by Indiana
These brothers Terry mentioned are good brothers. However, they had also turned down my suggestion that we meet together and get into the word and ministry together, and go to contact people in their homes together who need our shepherding. But they would not, because as one told me, "you would sooner or later cause trouble again". There was no way, because....
"there is a fortified stronghold built up that is not easy to penetrate." - John Ingalls 2001
The brothers I have mentioned on this thread are good brothers, but, certainly with them
"there is a fortified stronghold built up that is not easy to penetrate."
Ron Kangas is a good brother but in an international leaders' conference, he recklessly called me a "man of death" and "one of the most evil speakers on the internet", and avoided talking directly to me when I confronted him by phone and by letter. This is because, assuredly, he is a prime example that
"there is a fortified stronghold built up that is not easy to penetrate."
The brother who wrote this email loves the Lord and the church life, but he had a rash response when he was told by yet another good brother the following,
Steve,
I asked Sherman about you and your history in the church in this area. I was appalled to find out that you have not only written one book (which I knew about but never read), but also that you maintain two websites full of slander regarding the Lord’s Recovery, and specifically regarding at least eight coworkers and several elders.
Hearing about evidence such as a nearly two inch stack of emails that you wrote regarding Joel Kennon, and the fact that you maintain much contact with ones who oppose the Lord’s Recovery such as John Ingalls, leaves me no alternative but to discontinue my contact with you.
Regardless of what new ones you want to introduce to me, there is no way I can have fellowship with you. Your behavior is divisive, and you have not shown any willingness to repent. If you reply that these facts are not true, then I’ll only believe that after you’ve taken down your slanderous web sites and come face to face with Sherman and Joel and the other elders in Seattle and Bellevue and retract the materials you have written.
You told me that you want to be allowed to fellowship with the church in Bellevue, yet your actions tell another story. I am have given the Lord and His Recovery thirty seven years of my life, and there is no other life I desire to live. Don’t bother sending me any more emails. I’m just going to delete them anyways.
Jerry Mueckl
Why do these two brothers talk like this, in a foolish way, without looking into the matter of who is actually doing the slandering? It is because, they, and the brothers referred to on my websites cannot hear the truth, when
"there is a fortified stronghold built up that is not easy to penetrate."
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