[revival-fire] Reformation By Way Of Love...

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Well,   We serve a strange God with strange ways, that's the only thing that's for sure sometimes.  I am constantly amazed at how He deals with longsuffering with His erratic humans and their spontaneous behavior...   I will say that I am extremely humbled and humiliated (in the best way) at the events over this past week.  The things that have happened with me are very personal and were pivotal in redefining me and why I am.  I wish I could've done without alot of the excess chaos that I caused, BUT as a dear sister of mine told me "God never wastes a hurt" and I am eternally grateful for that...   To answer all my dear brothers and sisters out there I am not leaving Family Christian Center and for many different reasons I am choosing to stay.  I was planning on leaving and had my side of things ready for that move...and then...God spoke ever so quietly.  I tried for two days to deny it and find some other course to go on besides the one He presented me.  The last day I actually spent yelling at Him "NO!" but He knows me too well and knew I would give in before He did.  That spout of defiance basically ended in hysterical laughter because I love Him too much and He knows that I must do what I know I need to do.  The most vital reason I'm choosing to stay is something that Matt and others have touched on; it's too easy to leave.  The hard part would be to stay...   Quite honestly I am so weary and heart broken over seeing my brothers and sister in Christ resent each other and/or completely write each other off over differences of opinions; that goes doubly for me.  We are so up in arms over what's right and wrong, true or false, good or bad that the entire Body is fractured and splintered in a disasterous amount.  Even my very own little trip to and fro was over something deemed "wrong".  I sit here and wonder "where does it stop?" "who will stop it?".  That is the question that God answered for me and I hope He answered it for you too when He told me "It stops with you".  There is one thing that I love about my earthly brother at home.  No matter how happy or how mad we are at each other, no matter if we totally disown each other or if we are worlds apart, there is one thing that will never change...we are brothers...   If there is to be any unity in this Body it starts in between you and me and it starts with putting EVERYTHING aside, whether if it's right or wrong, and binding ourselves to each other through sickness and health, wealth or poverty, rights or wrongs.  That is what I must do and it is what you must do with me.  It is what Jesus did when He laid aside the Law (the truth) which condemned us all and laid Himself down to make a Way for all to enter in.  If He did that for us and we are to follow in His footsteps and be known to the world by our love for one another then it starts right here, right now, with the very thing that separates you from any one of your brothers or sisters.  Judgement will come to His house before it comes to the world, therefore mercy and forgiveness must come to His house before it comes to the world because He is still a God that desires mercy and not sacrifice...   I love you all dearly, both those that I personally know and do not.  I thank every one of you for your prayers, wisdom, and support.  Without you I probably would've caved in and have left feeling very rejected.  To answer one sisters question, yes I do see how loved I am and it has given me great hope and faith in the Church to see God's family arise and unite again.  I am back on revival fire for good and I have been seriously humbled by the amount of emails from all of you telling me how much God uses my words to speak to you.  Who am I to silence the hand of God?  At any rate, I will be around and things will continue but they will not be the same.  I have not come to settle for what is but to make way for what is to come, however feebly I obey I will obey at least in that much.  Again, thank you all, thank you Matt for your patience and longsuffering, and blessings on all of you my precious siblings...   Until Next Time,   aaron

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