MENACING MINISTRIES!     DO1746            2/84
--A Warning to You!

         1. I OFTEN WONDER IF THE APOSTLE PAUL WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ANY FURTHER & HAD LESS TROUBLE if he had just gone & started preaching on the street corners & in the parks or somewhere just to the Gentiles, because they heard him gladly & received the Word with gladness, God's Word says, immediately, anon! (Acts 13:48) Why couldn't he just as well have done that & skipped those damned Jews who caused him all the trouble? He probably could have survived a lot longer by going to the outsiders & sinners outside of the church first, the Gentiles, & circumvented & avoided the synagogues.
         2. AND OF COURSE IT WAS ALMOST ALWAYS THE RULERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE & THE CHIEF PRIESTS & RABBIS & WHATNOT, THE ONES WHO WERE IN CONTROL, THE HIERARCHY, WHO REJECTED & REFUSED IT because they felt it threatened their position & their organisation, their denomination, just like they do today. There is no difference. Man hasn't changed, nor have the religious organisations changed, nor their jealousy & covetousness & spite & all the rest of it. So that's where you'll always get trouble.
         3. THAT'S WHAT FRED JORDAN USED TO TEACH US. HE SAID, "FORGET THE CHURCHES!" He said, "I tried that for years! It didn't do any good. It just causes you more trouble than it does any good, & you get less results for the amount of effort & everything else, just because they support you!" He said, "You go out & get some rich millionaire businessman or outsider & you don't have to worry about church support, he'll support you!"--And he did!
         4. SO I WONDER IF OUR FOLKS HAD STUCK TO THE OUTSIDERS, INSTEAD OF GOING INTO THESE CHURCHES & church schools & church institutions & advertising themselves abroad, widespread on radio & television & ads & everything else, if we wouldn't have been better off! We have had so much rope we have nobody but ourselves to blame, we've practically hung ourselves! We really cut our own throats by going into some of these countries through the churches!
         5. GOING INTO THE CHURCHES, BROTHER, REALLY COSTS! It pays monetarily for a short while, but then in the long run it costs heavy opposition & persecution from the powers that be & the church, which has a lot of influence with the government! So for short-time results, short-term gains, you pay a big price in the long-term, like we have paid all over the World for that matter!
         6. WHO KNOWS? MAYBE YOU'D HAVE DONE BETTER IF YOU'D STUCK TO THE SINNERS & the outsiders & steered clear of the churches & the church people & their institutions. I have a feeling, especially now since we are so well known, we'd be a lot better off to avoid the churches & the church institutions like poison, stay away from them & stick to the outsiders. After all, you're not proselytising their sheep there & you're not running in competition there because they're not trying to reach the outsiders, so how can they be jealous or envious?
         7. LET'S FACE IT!--THAT'S WHAT CAUSED A LOT OF THE EARLY APOSTLES & JESUS A LOT OF TROUBLE, going into the temple & synagogues! But they seemed to feel that they owed it to them first to reach the real sheep first & give them the Good News, & maybe they were right, but they sure paid a price for it! So did the Apostle Paul & Christians down through the ages, including us!
         8. I'LL TELL YOU, THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING NOW, I THINK IT BEHOOVES US TO STEER CLEAR OF THE CHURCHES more & more, because more & more of them have heard about us & have recognised us & our ways, & there is hardly any church person who has ever heard about us that wouldn't recognise us! So I think we're safer to steer clear of them now. Going to the churches had its day as long as we could get away with it! But I don't think we can get away with it anymore because we are World-famous, & amongst the churches we're already World infamous!
         9. IN SOME OF THE COUNTRIES where they've been received with open arms by lots of churches & Christians, now the doors are closing! And now it's no longer an asset but a liability, & even limits their public witnessing other places, anywhere, & threatens to get them completely run out of some of the countries wherever they recognise them or catch them!
         10. I THINK THE DAYS OF CHURCH VISITATION ARE PRETTY WELL COMING TO THEIR CLOSE, & anybody that risks it is risking almost everything! (Maria: Not just for themselves but also for a lot of other people!--A lot of the rest of the Family!) Yes, they're endangering themselves & the Family & other Homes, & they stand a chance of not only getting thrown out of the church but out of the town & out of the country, not just themselves but the whole Family! I really think they ought to avoid any confrontations with the churches & organised religion & keep a low profile & stay as much out of sight as possible, & go to the Gentiles.
         11. GO TO THE UNSAVED & THE UNCHURCHED, & CERTAINLY NOT RIGHT TO THE CHURCHES OR THE RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS! Go outside where the general public are & keep a low profile there too in ministries which are more secretive & less obvious, such as going door-to-door, which I think is one of the best, & office-to-office & even restaurant-to-restaurant. Even preaching in the park is getting a little dangerous nowadays!--And street witnessing or litnessing is getting a little dangerous! You're better to stick to some kind of ministry that's a little more hidden where you're off the street & out of the park & public places & where you're a little better protected inside.
         12. SO MAY GOD DELIVER US FROM ANY KIND OF MINISTRY WHICH IS BECOMING A MENACE!--THE MENACE MINISTRY! Watch out for the menacing ministries of the Churches!

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