I am, as many will know a leader.
However, I am now studying the " The 12 Foundation Stonesâ€

I am, as many will know a leader.

Max, the lord has given me a few words for you. Hang on...(tongues)
Yabbildy gabbildy hobbidy dobbidy yabada yabada allabah hallabah baloo
Interpretation:
My child, do not listen to the rantings and ravings of the bitter apostates here. It is my will that you complete the 12 foundation stones and enter into paradise with your new family. There you will be a leader and shown great love and be given power over others to watch over them and see that they are in their positions. In the meantime, those over your position will gradually work on cleaning out your assets while making you feel important. You are and will be treated like a queen. You will first have a lot of room to question and then when you have taken the hook line and more importantly the SINKER, you will no longer enjoy the privileges of questioning and having a sense of control over yours or anyone elses life. You will be humbled in the eyes of the great queen and then driven out of the family OR be a lackey for the rest of your life. Such has happened before with leaders who had followings whether JPA leader or House of Judah or others who were people with power or wealth. In the end there can only be one king or queen and it will never be you.

max wrote:

I am, as many will know a leader.
However, I am now studying the " The 12 Foundation Stonesâ€

There are people in the world who are cut out for life in the Family--not as followers, but as leaders. Generally speaking, these people are socipaths and narcissists. It does bother me at times to use psychiatric labels for people with serious character defects, when just plain "bad" would suffice for "mad." The truth of the matter is, fragile egos lay underneath that veneer of normalcy, those defenses of rationalization and condescention. So fragile, in fact, that you don't have to squeeze such a person very hard to get their true colors to bleed.

Max needs to live in a world where the rules that apply to everyone else don't apply to him. TFI's leadership have created just such a world where personal responsibility for their choices are always someone else's problem--the domain of cry babies and whiners. What's important is that these special people are making a difference in the world. They're legends in their own minds. They apologize to those who are stepped on and hurt along the way. Pfssh! Get over it.

My reading of the Good News is that the egocentrism necessary to make a difference in the world is a burden that Jesus would like to help us let go. I think the point of Christian life is to allow ourselves to be loved unconditionally by God and to share that love with others. Saying "I love you" is easy. Forgetting myself long enough to enter into another person's reality, to be nonjudgemntal of their pain & suffering, their triumphs and joys--this is what it means to take up the cross daily and die to self.

Letting go of self is just about impossible to do if it's all about me making a difference in the world. Letting go of self to feel compassion for someone caught up in the agony of self pity isn't about making a difference, it's about being a different kind of person: A witness to the suffering, death & resurrection of Christ. I can almost get there with narcissists, despite the great injuries they cause other people with their egocentric worldview, but the loneliness and terror they so desperately seek to concel in their shadows are more than I can fathom at times.

Lord, have mercy that we might BE the change we seek to bring to the world.

Ex Sharon
Thank you for your words/ blessing/will from your Lord that I complete the “12 Foundation Stonesâ€

... since financially I am in the same financial World as Jeremy Spencer et al and the inference thereof! Love & God Bless

Max

max wrote:

... since financially I am in the same financial World as Jeremy Spencer et al and the inference thereof! Love & God Bless

Max

oh Max, Max, didn't you know Jeremy Spencer lives in WS (World Services) which is with the leadership of the Family (although he is not a leader, unless you want to count his art, which is certainly influencing. but he doesn't come up with the text around the art. it's the text from Maria, then his art after)? As far as HIS money, he's as broke as the rest of them, and if he has any money stashed somewhere (which he can't use, because it wouldn't be fair to the rest of the WS people, Maria and Peter would tell him exactly how to use it. Because having a lot of money in the CM Family is just something that doesn't happen.

Sorry to disillusion you, but Jeremy Spencer lives as any other person would in the strictest of Family environments. He has less freedom than your average field family person, so your statement is wrong. sorry.

Or, are you TRYING to imply that you're broke?

Letting go of self is just about impossible to do if it's all about me making a difference in the world. Letting go of self to feel compassion for someone caught up in the agony of self pity isn't about making a difference, it's about being a different kind of person: A witness to the suffering, death & resurrection of Christ. I can almost get there with narcissists, despite the great injuries they cause other people with their egocentric worldview, but the loneliness and terror they so desperately seek to concel in their shadows are more than I can fathom at times.

Lord, have mercy that we might BE the change we seek to bring to the world.

Sorry to disillusion you, but Jeremy Spencer lives as any other person would in the strictest of Family environments. He has less freedom than your average field family person, so your statement is wrong. sorry.

To make truly lasting changes in this world we need to do the things that will cause the people in the world to change.

You know the saying about giving a fish to a hungry man to relieve his hunger, but if we teach him to fish we will cure his hunger. (Or something to that effect).