Friends and relatives desert me because they feel that I'm different. They alienate themselves from me became I turned away from the Roman Catholic doctrine; because I repented my sins and relied to God on keeping me within His path; I've been a regenerated person through immersion in water in baptism and I believed that Jesus Christ is the only name in the world that has been given to save anyone; and I was renewed when the Holy Ghost or the Spirit of Christ dwelt in me as I began speaking languages that the Spirit allowed me to speak. More friends and relatives turned their backs from me when I continue to offer my lives as a living sacrifice to God - an offering that is only for God and pleasing to him. Considering what He has done, it is only right that I should worship Him in this way.
This website is more likely to be a wedge rather than a fold, a sword than a chord, as it separates me from my friends and relatives because of Jesus and His gospel. Some Christian church goers don’t like me because my website is not shaded by their organizational umbrella; because I don’t get dressed the way they are dressed up; I don’t adhere to their traditions and man-made philosophies; I don’t shake hands with anybody; or I don’t sit on their pews. They fear my shadow, more than they fear my haggard looks, and they’re ashamed to call me "brother", saying that their brother is not a pig! Those who exclaimed, “Jesus is coming!” are the same ones who pushed me into the ditch and they justified their deed as the will of God. The devil continues to seek me that he may devour me. Glory be to God that I am not the one living now--it is Christ living in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God. He is the one who loved me and gave himself to save me.
The Word of God, which I speak with compassion for the lost souls, makes hearers blind, dumb and deaf, sad to say, even the ones whom I knew they would listen. They don’t like to hear that salvation in the name of Jesus Christ. They don’t like to see Jesus in the beauty of His holiness. They don’t like to speak out the need for a Savior. If in this way I lost many of them, then I lost them. Grounds are tested and grounds respond to the hearing of the Word of God. I believe that beyond this pain of separation from people, there’s still a remnant, called the Good Ground, who will hear the Word of Truth and grow a hundredfold. As the Scriptures have said, I’ll get them all back, but multiplied many times in friends and relatives, and in troubles, too. So, help me God in my weaknesses.
Truly,
Oneness Apostolic Faith