ONENESS ONENESS

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>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:47:59 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>When John the Baptist, a man never ordained by any other man, came preaching
>>God's truth to His people, the priest's, the religious leaders of the true
>>church at that time, their first and majority response, was to violently
>>reject him- though he only brought them a message of truth.
>
>Neither being a majority NOR being a minorty is itself a certification
>of God's blessing. Futher, there are numerous causes for rejection
>though virtually every voice that contends for something unique claims
>to be rejected by Phariseeism, as that is the historic model of
>interaction of a man with a message encountering a crowd.
>
>The one whose message is rejected many times implies that those who
>reject him are the religious majority who cannot hear the voice of
>God. Those many of us who received the doctrine of the Apostles, and
>have been living as a small minority labouring to bring the saving
>truth of the name of Jesus to our communities must be careful not to
>fall into this trap of self-pity, and religious stereotyping.
>
>If we labor with patience, we will reap in due time. 
>
>>Same with Jesus Christ. Same when Martin Luther nailed his thesis to the
>>door of the Catholic church. Same when Bro. Parham first brought the message
>>of the gift of the Holy Ghost with tongues. Same with Bro. Seymour, a black
>>preacher, whom Parham became jealous over. Same with Bro. Durham, when he
>>brought out the message of the finished work of Calvary, Bro. Seymour locked
>>him out of the Azusa street mission. Same with the Oneness message, when
>>Bro. McAlister brought to us the precious message of baptism in Jesus name-
>>he was sorely rejected by the Trinitarian ministers of his day.
>

Just thought I would point out that this last statement is not exactly
accurate. While R. E. McAlister was questioned for his belief in Baptism in
Jesus' Name for a time, he was never rejected by the trinitarian members of
the PAOC (Canadian AOG) which he helped start. As a matter of fact he
eventually turned from the oneness of God and Baptism in Jesus' name
messages because he found the brethern there bickered too much.

Frank "wish I had a cool nickname like Bro. Richard" Vandenburg