Dear brethren,
Thinking about our life, I find it right, loving and my responsibility to share my thoughts with you. Remaining thankful for your love for me & devotion, I cannot stay peaceful about some matters. Especially when hearing that in the last few years several towns have been given up and many brothers excluded, it looks justified to ask: Why is the community so weak?
Knowing your wish to follow the Christ and to be purified in every little point, and as Josef writes in the end of the Apology, "Every serious constructive criticism can only help us to grow in the knowledge of God," I take courage to write. Please take time to think about these questions! Objectively, prayerfully and honestly in front of our heavenly Father and of your conscience. Please don't rely too much on each other, as we are all finally personally responsible for our decisions. I don't want to invite anyone to separate, but to build up each other, having a new conviction, a new love for brothers & enemies from the Father of love himself.
Even I have much to learn and grow, I'm convinced, it is God who has given me power in distress; hope, thankfulness, comfort; power not to be bitter or revengeful, but to wish good for all. And even if you don't believe it, please consider the content, not the writer, because He has said, 'if you accept a little child in my name you accept me, and if you reject a little one who believes in me, you reject me." God spoke even through the Balaam's donkey, the more through human beings.
And forgive me, if I point to something that has changed already, for my information is a bit old.
Please do not harden your hearts, please do not close your eyes for reality. Please don't exclude anyone for reading this, seeing anything right in it, dealing with this questions, but trust God's work in each other. You know, that every Christian has the Holy Spirit, and nobody understands everything perfectly. And please trust His work in Christians who don't live exactly as the community lives. Because in different circumstances, they very probably come to different practices in matters that are not clearly commanded in the Scripture. (Even the Apologia contains that idea)
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