[Rain Man]

Strongbeauty, you and I are =====>HERE<========, in more ways than one.

Like yourself, I have also echoed the same basic points to the folk here on GC on more than one occasion through the years, and like yourself, no one received it, thus the good fruit had fell to the ground.

The basic problem is not with your approach to the people here on GC, far from it. Heck, you and Fred Hatchett are as different as night and day; the contention you have been receiving is IMHO hearts being convicted, while Fred's MO was through persecution. And it was for that reason that he was banned.

The challenge for us as Christians is for us to receive ministry that sometimes does not tickle our ears and actually challenges us to take our walk with God to "the next level". What I am hearing on this thread that disturbs me is that the Bible and God's Word "is all relative" (read: subjective thus subject to personal interpretation). Therein lies the danger. God's Word is absolute, black and white, clear as crystal, and non-negotiable. When we are confronted with that, combined with the conviction it provokes in our hearts, it naturally causes us to get defensive. Hence what you have been reading throughout this thread.

Bottom line, as long as we want to get goosebumps and a good feeling while being ministered to, we will never grow and mature spiritually and will miss out on what God's will is for us.

You don't take candy to cure a cold or flu, why do you want a good feeling message to cure a spiritual ill for what ails you?