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Well, for starters Jesus lives in those who are born again, "Christ in you..."; He is also with us, "I am with you always" and "I will never leave you or forsake you", he is seated at the right hand of the Father; He is with us through the Holy Spirit; He is in the presence of God making intercession for us; the list goes on. One misses out on a lot if they believe Jesus is not present. It's from this Jesus is absent mindset that people like VP and LCM can consider themselves "The men of God for our day and our time". Why is that? Because if you take Jesus Christ out of the equation, then the Kingdom is solely in hands of men with nothing to be accountable to. Tyranny rules. Corinthians, as you know, says "We are ambassadors for Christ...." Yet in TWI we knew very little of who Christ was. How could we then be his ambassadors? We couldn't talk to him, we couldn't even talk about him that much. If you did, someone would soon come along (like me), correct you and say that The Word was the center of Christianity. But Christianity is more than stark axioms, it is about relationship. Some may say that Jesus' sacrifice merely gave us access to the Father. True enough, but let's not forget that Jesus said that no man comes to the Father but by him. We always thought that was simply discussing the new birth but Jesus says no one actually can come to the Father but through him. Here's the rub with TWI teaching, Jesus Christ is absent, the holy spirit is an entity that can actually be operated by us. The result being that we men are in control not only of this world, but of God himself. He'll answer any prayer we throw up as long as we're focused and we believe.

And yet one of the most compelling things about Christianity is that we are all broken. We all need a Savior.

"LCM went on and on about how the devil spirit realm was trying to take over the ministry by people refusing to change their personal habits and becoming contaminated. And how people will become indignant when reproved and say I'm righteous who are you to tell me this or that. This was LCMs rationalization for the debt purge, the homo purge, the planning your day to 15 minute increments, reporting back...all the control measures because we gotta keep the household clean for Jesus, y'know." LCM became a first rate horse's as s over the years and received full certification after taking over for VPW. Comparing his M.O. with anything else is like comparing the Three Stooges act to a football's team playbook. Based on "principles" that allowed for any flight of fancy to become his latest revelation from god he developed a history of activity that would rival a bee's flight pattern for twists and turns. What made sense to him was what he made make sense to himself that week. It's misguided to compare scriptural guidance with his hide-and-seek games. Of course he diverted attention to things that didn't amount to a pile of pig swill while screwing other's wives and living like a fatted calf off the usury of the sweat of others. He didn't concern himself with the work of a pastor, teacher or minister, he beat people over the head with directives designed to denigrate and demote anything that might have turned into real prosperity and value while promoting carefully crafted campaigns that wouldn't be worth the virtual paper it takes to describe them were it not for the fact that they remain even still today the lowest of the lowest points in his putrid past of pilfering and plundering the good names, character and virtue of those who, given even the smallest amount of help and assistance one might expect from a "ministry" that claimed to hold forth the Word of God, could have benefited from that very help had it been there. I could never compare his misguided and maniacal "home purge" with any kind of honest, intelligent and scriptural evaluation. He was an idiot waiting for the next bomb to drop that he was never going to see coming because he was too busy strutting and dancing. I would never confuse what the bible teaches with what he did. Doesn't make sense. Because he was a spiteful small minded toad doesn't mean that making decisions and judgment based on clear teaching from the bible wrong.