Thank you for protecting me :)

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>Dear Bro. Tyler,

thank you so much for trying to protect me against the mail that Jan from
Norway sent anyway. He also included your reasons for not sending the mail
through Higher-fire. 

Though he tried to hurt me, I have to tell you that he was not successful.
My heart goes out to him, as it does to so many, that reject God's wonderful
truths. I pray that someday God will give him the revelation of who HE
really is. However, it has always been my policy when something like that
occurs to think to myself "If you're right, fine, nothing can happen to me
that way either....but what if I'm right...... :)!"

Nevertheless, I do think it to be a good idea that letters like that will
not be sent through higher-fire. It was not my intention to be offensive to
him, for that will never win him to the full truth. I think higher-fire is a
wonderful tool for Oneness Apostolics to fellowship with each other without
being abused by bible scholars. I was talking on #Apostolic yesterday and
was told that there has been such abuse before, which I believe is just as
wrong as when we go out and beat people over the head with the bible and say
"you will go to hell if....." I have encountered people who have been
treated that way :( and now do not want to have anything to do with
Apostolics. It is my deepest believe that everybody has to work out their
own salvation in fear and trembling, the only thing we can do is love them,
tell them in a loving manner and pray for them. It takes time, but once the
seed is planted and once it has taken root and the revelations have come to
that person, I believe there is nothing that can shake that person. There
has been a scripture in my mind lately, though I didn't have the time yet to
check out where it is. There Jesus is looking at somebody (I forgot who,
could have been the 10 leppers) and the scripture says "He loved them". I
believe that is how we have to be, we have to love them, regardless of what
they are trying to do. When they abuse us, we have to pray "father forgive
them, they know not what they do". When we encounter hatred for His name's
sake, we have to pray for them that God has mercy on them and bring them
into the truth. Noone should ever abuse a fellow human being (wether
Christian or not)because of his faith, believes or whatever (the sad history
of my people has shown me that). Respect and love is what a dying world
needs. Jesus said the healthy don't need a doctor, it's the sick people.
Part of nursing someone to health, besides giving medicine (in our case the
gospel message) is love. God is love. I know this sounds a lot like "just
believe and you are saved" but that is not what I'm trying to say. I am
trying to say we need a balance of both. The truth in connection with love
equals salvation for the world. My pastor always says before we can win them
to the Lord, we must win them to ourselves. I guess he is right. I cannot
win someone that feels hated or threatened by me. I live in a city of 350
000 people with only 8 people baptized in Jesus name and having the Holy
Ghost. There is so much darkness and tradition here, since I live in a
strictly Catholic part of Germany. Sometimes, when I go to work, I look at
all the cars and think to myself: "Lost, lost, lost....." and it makes my
heart cry out. People here are disillusioned by the denominational churches
to the extend, that they do not want to have anything to do with
Christianity. And yet their souls are seeking for the one true God that
could save them. Many of them follow Eastern religions, many follow their
own intellect and follow their own desires thinking they can satisfy their
souls by engaging in worldly life-styles. I have spoken to people about God,
but I have always tried to do that with a spirit of love and compassion. It
is wrong for us to look down on them and thinking they are worth less than
we are. Do not the angels rejoice when a sinner comes to God. And does not
the shepherd rejoices more over the 1 sheep he found than the 99 he still
got? He went to the cross for us, but not only for us but for everyone out
there because he saw them, saw their sick state .... and He loved them. We
need to do the same. 

Why did I write you all that. I don't really know. It's been on my heart
these past couple of days and I suppose I just had to vent it. Actually, all
I wanted was to let you know that though you tried to protect me and others,
I still got the message from Jan anyway. God bless you. Doris.
Dos-User

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