Paula

I knew as soon as he got here that we were dealing with a closed mind and a stony heart. Neo-chris and his own back-slapping buddies have no intention of conversing with any egal in a civilized manner, because they love preeminence, and like the Pharisees they will do anything to keep it. To call someone lost over this shows complete ignorance of the gospel, which is all about Jesus and not them.

I think the “churches” at large have long forgotten the gospel. They have become clubs centered around personalities and programs, whose leaders drill their own personal convictions into them as if they were divine revelation. It is the pride of man and hatred of dissenters which has eaten away at the fiber of the Body until it is now but a skeleton, dead on its feet.

I have long said that the best way to discover a person’s character is to see how they react to being disagreed with, and many big names in religion have shown their contempt for all who do so. Their followers have adopted the same character, slandering and gossiping as if Jesus never said “do to others what you want them to do to you” or “you will be judged with the measure you use for others”. I can’t imagine how the love of Christ lives in such hearts. I wonder what “gospel” they believed?