Edited and posted with permission.
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 09:17:56 -0600
Subject: Re: [SDA_friends] Do not treat lightly A private message to
Sterling
Sterling,
I wanted to commend you on your response to Brian's mockery. I don't know
you, but have been a subscriber to two of your lists and was on the keys of
knowledge list for some time and observed with interest your interactions with
JJ. I left that list soon after you did and for much the same reasons.
I don't know who you are or even what you believe regarding yourself, but I
do find you present truth in a clear and resonating manner, whether about
yourself or a point of doctrine.
[...] I am currently living [far removed from Utah] so I do not have the
opportunity to visit with [Utah friends] and people like yourself much
anymore, hence I really enjoy your e-mail groups.
I have heard a lot of so called claims about the one mighty and strong, but
frankly I have heard some of the best explanations from you, including the
twelve points in your response to this put down from Brian.
[...]I think you are right when you say that the one mighty and strong is a
group of several perhaps many individuals who hold that same spiritual calling
and gifts. Although I feel I have somewhat lost my way in the struggle against
darkness, I had several years ago received some significant revelation
pertaining to this point myself, and wonder upon it still, as it pertains to
my situation and others like yourself.
[...] Although I am still relatively active in the LDS church I am
constantly amazed at the deep sleep that is upon the general membership and
there stubborn unwillingness to awake and arouse their faculties. I commend
you on your faithfulness to what you believe, I commend you for the stand you
have taken and continue to take, I commend you as one who is truly seeking and
desiring light and knowledge. You are truly a light within the darkness of
"organized religion" which is ever more becoming a mass of
confusion. Hold to your faith Sterling, both in yourself and your God, for the
God I have known will not charge you for wrong done in good conscience and
with a sincere effort to obey his voice to you directly. Even if, in human
weakness we misunderstand, or misinterpret His divine direction, I am
convinced he still honors our faith and sincerity and loves those great ones
who are willing to stand against darkness, even when it appears with the
claims of light, authority, and priesthoods. God bless you and lift you to be
all that he has desired you to be, With kind regards
[Name withheld]
