[stephanos]

Originally Posted by MC1171611

You're "past the bitterness" but write three times as much as I did in response, with ten times the vitriol? I'm not convinced, brother.

Differences in administrations. The church split because people allowed that teaching to become an issue; it was not Estep's fault. If a pastor isn't close enough to God to keep a problem-causer from coming in and splitting the church, then perhaps that man's walk with God should be questioned, and not just the doctrine that led to the problem.

You have no idea the pain and trouble this man caused us; I'd love to go around and expose him for what he is, but I'm NOT called to do that, regardless of what you think. MARK them, yes. But that doesn't mean I have to go around whining about what he did to my church! AVOID them, yes, but that doesn't entail writing dozens of pages of literature and wasting countless hours transcribing his messages just to fight against him.

It's apparent from your response to me that you're still very bitter about what happened. I approached you in a respectful manner, yet you bit back at me as if I had attacked you. Perhaps some self-examination is in order.

Hopefully you'll see, like I have (after I butt heads with george myself; quite fiercely I might add), that he is a seasoned warrior of God's Word. You would do well to listen to him.

Peace and Love,
Stephen