New Member/Moderate Apostolics

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Dear friend,

You are being far too general!  I don't understand an Apostolic list 
that is constantly REBUKING Apostolics!  We're not some merciless, 
international tribunal bent on the death sentence for struggling 
brothers and sisters!  We don't all go about with powdered wigs and a 
gavel in our hand.  Pentecost isn't a witchunt for offenders of the 
Faith!  We're not an Inquisition!

Introspection is always valuable, and I think it does us all good to 
consider (re-consider) our attitudes and spirits, but this constant 
railing against Bible-believing, holiness-living Apostolics 
Christians is getting VERY OLD!  

I'm sorry for those who have been hurt and abused at the hands of 
insensitive Believers.  I just came through the most excruciating 
experience of my Christian walk.  It tried my faith and shook my 
foundations, and I suffered much at the hands of people you are 
supposed to be able to trust.  I can't intimate the details, but I 
can tell you that it has not dimmed my view of this glorious Church!  
It hasn't made me view Apostolics, in general, as viperous Pharisees. 
I've come through stronger with an understanding of God's great love 
and the fallibility of men who are trying, perhaps very sincerely, to 
do the work of God!

All of this judgementalism needs to cease.  I'm sick to death of 
hearing Apostolics who keep with the old paths downgraded as 
second-class citizens in the Kingdom of God holding on to some faded, 
outdated vision of evangelism and Kingdom-building.

Please don't think I'm angry, but we should be trying to keep the 
unity of the faith not divide along lines that probably do not even 
exist.

Bro.  Matthew Shaw