headhurt
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Blessed Hope It is Written It Will Be Done
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Post by headhurt on Jun 1, 2020 7:57:26 GMT -5
In more recent years, I have been following what seemed like a ‘great ministry’ concerning these Last Days and the soon-coming Rapture, but ‘recent events’ have clued me in to the fact that this ministry is not without its flaws either. ‘Controlling’ would best describe this channel, as in ‘controlling the narrative,’ so to speak. For example, the main premise of this ministry is to ‘call out’ other ministries who are either apostate and/or who are teaching heresy.
On the one hand, this has been ‘highly beneficial’ to the Church in discerning who we should and should not listen to or adhere to. On the other hand, though, when this ministry is also ‘called out’ because they have their own flaws as well, the narrative suddenly changes on a dime! It was as if they had to ‘change the storyline’ in order to ‘save face’ and/or do ‘damage control.’
Basically, when it came time for them to ‘take a little dose of their own medicine,’ all of a sudden the portrayal becomes, ‘we are being attacked, this is not ethical or right, everyone needs to support and encourage one another instead’! So, in essence, they can ‘dish the criticism out,’ but when the shoe is on the other foot, it suddenly becomes unfair. Discernment says that this is a very ‘manipulative and controlling’ practice, to say the least.
Matthew 24:4 “Jesus answered: ‘Watch out that no one deceives you.'”
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Post by watchful on Jun 1, 2020 8:49:22 GMT -5
In more recent years, I have been following what seemed like a ‘great ministry’ concerning these Last Days and the soon-coming Rapture, but ‘recent events’ have clued me in to the fact that this ministry is not without its flaws either. ‘Controlling’ would best describe this channel, as in ‘controlling the narrative,’ so to speak. For example, the main premise of this ministry is to ‘call out’ other ministries who are either apostate and/or who are teaching heresy. On the one hand, this has been ‘highly beneficial’ to the Church in discerning who we should and should not listen to or adhere to. On the other hand, though, when this ministry is also ‘called out’ because they have their own flaws as well, the narrative suddenly changes on a dime! It was as if they had to ‘change the storyline’ in order to ‘save face’ and/or do ‘damage control.’ Basically, when it came time for them to ‘take a little dose of their own medicine,’ all of a sudden the portrayal becomes, ‘we are being attacked, this is not ethical or right, everyone needs to support and encourage one another instead’! So, in essence, they can ‘dish the criticism out,’ but when the shoe is on the other foot, it suddenly becomes unfair. Discernment says that this is a very ‘manipulative and controlling’ practice, to say the least. Matthew 24:4 “Jesus answered: ‘Watch out that no one deceives you.'” Wise old Solomon was right....there's nothing new under the sun. And it's been my observation and experience that all flesh is the same.
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