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DWIGHT:
Hi Everyone,
It's amazing when I hear all of your testimonies and how similar they all are. Mine is really the same; from being a fundamentalist to bible college, to being a pastor of a church to the Jesus movement of the sixties to following Witness Lee and the "local church," to being the prodical son and comig back to the Father, to finding BT and fellowshipping with you all. This only took fifty years, but boy was it worth it. I feel like the ones who were hired at the last hour of the day, but received a penney just like those who toiled all day in the heat of the sun. The first shall be last and the last shall be first, and it's all of God. :)
In Him,
Dwight
rrammfcitktturjsp:
Dwight,
.....And Life is Good and good is enough for me. :)
Sincerely,
Anne C. McGuire
hebrewroots98:
Oh Yeah, preach on brethren...I luv it and gotta have more of it!!! It is indeed all VERY good here. ;D
gmik:
Whew!! Some good testimony here. Arc, was your hubby looking for something on the web specifically. I mean how did he find Ray's site???
Deborah-Leigh:
Hi G
I asked my husband to answer your question! 8)
Here is what he wrote.
My experiences were in a way very similar to Dwight’s experiences. I went from mainframe protestant religion, where I was one of the Church leaders, to Pentecostal, to confusion. We all go through trials and tribulations!
I started to question issues, which we were always steered away from. The controversial issues, I found that the answers swayed between emotion to dogma where you had to conform to their way of thinking.
After extensive research on early Christian works, it occurred to me that what we were taught were the results of careful selection, indoctrination and manipulation. The content mostly seemed to be hinged on opinion based on expectations and assumptions. It is a world where everyone always want to be right. They want you to hear, accept and agree with what they say, think and do.
What makes it difficult is that most of the different opinions and conclusions are based on the basis of truth that God and Jesus exist but the rest is according to their own expectations and assumptions that address human needs and wants. So what interested me were not the half truths that were presented. I wanted the truth.
I started to search for the original manuscripts and writings from the early Biblical times. I started to search for the correct meanings of the words in these manuscripts.
During my research I came upon Ray’s teachings. It was like a pathway that was presented. Here was a person who quotes exactly from sources as close to the original Bible, but who dissects the words and compares it to exact meanings in context, without assumptions and without subjective opinions and conclusions. All of a sudden a lot of the Bible is starting to take a new form and sense. It has changed my own way of thinking, it established in me the knowledge that we all are mere mortals with twisted opinions based on the way our parents taught us and the society we grew up in and in our own experiences and interpretations of information presented and taught to us.
My attitude changed towards leaning on God and trusting in Him. My attitude changed from not caring about what people think and say but caring about what God wants and says.
God has blessed me with a fantastic wife and child and with wonderful parents. Above all, God blesses me with the knowledge that He is our God and that everything is about Him. God blesses Ray with an open and clear mind.
Peace to you
Arcturus :)
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