Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
@#$%
I've got some bad
news for people who hate me in
a Christian kinda way.
I just got reamed
out again; celebrating the 10th anniversary of my first colonoscopy with my
second.
Anyway, I don't
have to get, uh, hosed again for another decade; meaning former members of
First who have hated me for everything but Christ's sake can stop hoping I'm
gonna have to quit for health reasons so they can look/search for another
victim for their darkly transferred pathologies.
I just may
outlive 'em to quote the former P of Princeton who said to a friend who
followed him in a parish, "You'll outlive most of your enemies.
I did."
Read the last KD for more on that (viz., "God Told Me").
Of course,
there's still hope for 'em.
They could assassinate
me (always a possibility) or I could die from another unnatural cause (always
within my heavenly thanatos
libido) or the Libertarian in me that gives the Billy salute to
those with insatiable control needs to convince/cajole/chastise me about the
helmet thing that they don't get because they're so
ignorant/inexperienced/gullible/deluded/lemminged could keep them pridefully
separated/segregated/schismatic (aka sinful) as they hope for a, uh, header.
Be that as it is or will be, I've
been reamed out again and I'm ready to resume...
@#$%
I've also been
reamed out in ministry over the years - rightly and wrongly - and left two
churches before the inevitable minority who hated me convinced the majority to
get rid of me for everything but Christ's sake.
Stop.
Did Jesus come to
separate and segregate Christians from each other?
Think about it.
Read John 17
slowly within the context of the corpus.
Is there anything
about following Jesus that includes "Christians" separating and
segregating themselves from each other because of the inane things that often
separate and segregate "Christians" from...?
I say
"Christians" because I am convinced authentic followers of Jesus -
uh, Christians
- don't separate and segregate themselves from each other over anything or
anyone and pray and work out their differences through and for Him.
He is eternally
more about restoration than removal/rejection.
Real deals for
Jesus know He ain't about divorce and division. He is all about mutual
confession and repentance on the way to the forgiveness that enables
real/Biblical/Christocentric peace, unity, and purity (aka redemption).
Posers run out
pastors and other people from pulpits and pews because of their deep dark
impulses that, frankly, point to a terrible reality about 'em: Matthew
12:31-32.
Or as I told a
"friend" who left the PCUSA for the EPC in another pridefully posing
example of me-so-much-better-than-you
BS, "You have no credibility for telling people that they can
get along through Jesus 'cause you don't get along with anyone through
Jesus."
Come to think of
it, that's the last time that...
Now everybody
together, "We are one in the...And they'll know we are...Blest be the tie that..."
upokrisis to the max.
BTW, though most
of you ain't gonna be there and really don't wanna be there, I'm gonna talk
about that during worship at next week's stated meeting of Blackhawk
Presbytery.
Come to think of
it, that may be the last time that...
@#$%
Three elders who
taught me more about authentic discipleship when I was a rookie than any
professor or presbyter did have all gone home to Jesus.
Eddie just joined
Fred and Frank last week.
Frank taught me
about hanging in for Him who hung it all up for us even when you lose votes and
can't convince people to...
Fred was the
illustrator for my dissertation and taught me about hanging in for Him who hung
it all up for us even when you lose votes and can't convince people to...
Eddie taught me
about loyalty to the Yankees, Giants, and Jesus even when the rest of the
world...
And so much more.
But I'll also
never forget how they often disagreed with my rookie instincts/intentions yet protected me from the kinda
blasphemers - yeah, I really mean that for reasons cited as well as
understood by saints who understand the will of God for the authentic Church
- that wanted to run me out
for everything but Christ's sake.
If it weren't for
Eddie, Fred, and Frank, I'd probably be a lawyer or Harley tech.
@#$%
Maybe now that
they ain't around I've gotta pick up their...
Maybe that's why
I just wrote to my ecclesiastical superiors and told 'em that I'm going after
the bastard children of Satan who have slipped/slithered into our presbytery's
churches and raise everything but heaven for...
Maybe that's why
I know and will pray/work to live/enflesh the truth of the old salt:
"Revival sometimes don't mean bringin' people in but gettin' the people out who don't
love Jesus and all His children!"
Maybe that's why
I may still become a...
Doesn't matter
anymore...in one sense.
It really,
really, really matters in another sense.
His.
@#$%
@#$%
No, not that one even as cathartic as...
This one...
@#$%
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
4 comments:
It really does matter . Please don't be hasty and don't fret so much . You sound angry , which won't help solve problems . My 97 year old friend Margaret read Psalms 139 :16 to me Wednesday . Something we should all try to remember .
Thanks, friend.
Actually, I'm not angry about anything related to my life and ministry. I was warned; and though I am just scratching the surface of my relationship with Jesus, I'm close enough to overcome and I know you know what He means.
I am angry at how people who pretend to be tight with Jesus terrorize too many in His name; and I have decided not to sit by anymore if I can pray/say/do anything about it.
Keep keepin' on, brother, for your spirit is akin to His
We should all be angry at anyone whose main goal is to destroy the church of Jesus Christ, especially when they do it in his very name! Especially when they use scripture to justify their evil ways.
Obviously, a KJV fan.
I beg you, anonymous, to take a long and prayerful look at the transition team, take a look at the text, and then, uh, judge.
I sense you are really trying to be faithful and beg you to love your family with constructive criticism directed to the Ecclesia Bible Society.
For example, if you wrote Dr. Dearman at Fuller Seminary in Texas, I am sure he will respond with care and concern as a brother through and for Jesus.
Blessings and Love!
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