Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Along with three
other seminarians - we'll call 'em Chris, Paul, and Roger because that's their
names - back in the mid 70s in Baltimore, Maryland on the fifth floor of the
Hilton Hotel during a big franchise pow-wow aka GA, I sat at the proverbial
feet of one of the few great presidents of PTS in recent history as he barked
between puffs on his Churchill, "I don't care what you do, boys, but do something for Christ's
sake."
Dylan:
"There are those who worship loneliness. I'm not one of them. In
this age of fiberglass, I'm looking for a gem!"
Shining/salting
for Jesus by the book!
Not, quoting Dylan again,
"errand boys for the wandering desires" of pewsitters/pulpiteers and
other ecclesiastical bureaucrats, babysitters, politicians, posers, and
ministerial maintenance types conspiring against remnant in an Ephesians 4:14,
2 Timothy 4:3-4, and Jude 4 kinda way.
God knows
there are too many fainthearts in the mainline gone sideline who go with
the increasingly polluted flow...down the toilet of pastoral/prophetic
irrelevancy...
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Another mentor,
now long-retired from a big bravehearted Cincinnati church and years of leading
a remnant crusade against porn, seemed kinda stunned if not appalled that I
would ask him about a year after ordination/installation or less than two years
after the chastening on the fifth floor of Baltimore's Hilton Hotel, "So
what should churches being doing these days?"
Answer: "If
you want to know what churches should be doing, just open the Bible and do what
Jesus and those who loved Jesus did."
Advice:
"Churches that are alive and growing in the Lord try about ten new things
every year with about six failing efforts."
JIM: "I
don't care what you do, boys, but do something
for Christ's sake."
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Declare.
Do you really have to have a bunch of
meetings to declare you are a part of the remnant praying and trying to honor
Jesus by the book?
Geez.
Manage the
resources entrusted to you by the saints in ways that honor Jesus by the book.
Do you really think those faithful
folks in your pews want you to use their tithes and offerings to enable plans,
programs, and pontifications antithetical to Jesus by the book?
Network with
those who are remaining faithfully and exiting faithfully regardless of
franchise as long as you're bonded by love for Jesus by the book.
Sorry, but denominational jingoism is
as alien to Jesus by the book as the pseudo-spirituality of the apostates among
us.
If someone has to
spend too much time trying to explain what you're/we're supposed to do,
you're/we're either fainthearted or as ignorant/illiterate/phony as those who
insult His holiness by advocating/accommodating apostasies informed by
everyone/anyone and everything/anything apart from Jesus by the book.
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Example.
Belvidere,
Illinois.
August 17, 2014.
5:00 p.m.
Community
Building
"Community-wide Back-to-School Non-Denominational Worship Service"
Encouraging and
praying for students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
Sending a
message: "Return to God and God will restore your nation, churches,
schools, marriages, families, market, lives, and..."
Sponsored by
about 40 local churches who know God must be returned to our schools before
it's too late.
Revelation 2:1-7.
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Example.
People ask about
the plastic black wristband/bracelet that I've been wearing since urging
remnant.
Reasons:
1. Grieving the decline
of America because it is distancing itself from God with dark
intentions/inspirations.
2. Grieving the
faintheartedness/infidelities/apostasies of too many American churches
evidenced by their lack of witness to Jesus by the book.
Again, Revelation
2:1-7.
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Example.
Already declared
remnant churches will not pay for and participate in the apostasies of their
franchises.
That includes no
longer forwarding voluntary per capita apportionments to enablers of apostasies or
putting special/traditional offering envelopes in bulletins/newsletters.
Instead, personal
checks will be sent to faithful franchise employees and all special/traditional
offerings will be vetted to insure the $ will honor Jesus by the book.
Again, Revelation
2:1-7.
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Example.
The clerk of
session on the corner of Lincoln and Main will be speaking live about remnant on 9/14
via www.bnnsradio.com.
Just click it on
at 10:00 a.m. and wait for the message.
He'll also be
quoting from Dr. Griffin's Firestorms
of Revival that is the best book on, uh, the history and recipe for
revival that I know.
Again, Revelation
2:1-7.
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Example.
While looking at
the character/courage of remnant predecessors/models in Exodus 1:8-22 in
the message on 8/17, I will also reference Paul E. Swedlund who is one of my
continuing inspirations/models for remaining faithfully.
You can listen in
by clicking on www.bnnsradio.com at
10:00 a.m.
Again, Revelation
2:1-7.
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Despite what I
wrote on pages 96ff. in the non-best-selling I
Just Wanna Ride, one of the great ironies of my life is buying
helmets to fight the elements; as in hard rain and riding around Chicago
or St. Paul.
Well, while
descending during our trek along Beartooth Highway (Route 212) a few weeks ago,
I realized my helmet wasn't up to it - intense fog and harder rain.
So I began
researching about helmets that would be up to it; and found one for $250.
When I invited
someone close to me who's always bantering and moaning about me wearing one to
help with the cost, she/he hesitated then changed the subject.
Reminds me of
those bravehearts in private who are fainthearts when the rubber hits
the road. They don't have the spiritual somethings to pray and pursue what is right
beyond vocational securities, perks, popularities, and nicer stuff fixed in time. Obviously, they
have not read red letters like Matthew 6:24; 7:13, 21-23; 16:24-28...
Those praying and
trying to remnant have/are.
Again, Revelation
2:1-7.
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Blessings and Love!
2 comments:
I like what you are doing, but I don't like the designation "remnant". We are not what is "left", but we stand together for what is "right". As it is often said, "With God, a majority is one." See David and Goliath or Gideon and the Midianites or Matthew 16:9-10. The less we have, the more God can do. Peder. d.v.
Mon ami, I really, really, really praise the Lord for your consistently courageous witness; noted again at the special presbytery meeting when you called out the eisegetical filibuster of the wolf in sheep's clothing.
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