(MN: Reply - if you want to buy it, try http://www.9marks.org [which is in no way connected to the Catholic Church, by the way]. )

I know we’re not discussing “nuts on parade” right not but this is just so, so, sick……

http://whatlovetaughtme.com/

While you are patiently waiting, may I refer you to the website??? http://www.9marks.org/

I assure you that you will find identical concepts on both the website and in the book. In fact, you can use the expositional sermons and articles as a study help and in conjunction with the book when you recieve it. Also, be sure to check out the interviews that they have on there (the one with Eric Redmond is my favorite). I’m praying for your growth and maturity, and I also hope these golden resources assist you in finding a healthy church, if you’re not part of one already.

Solus Christus,

R4C

So, rather than being able to sit home and allow this site and its peripheral duties to be the focus of his time, he has to get out and work every day like the rest of us (not to mention all the other things we all face that take our time).

Then, after doing all the other things we ALL do, he spends a great deal of time on the website and its maintenance and issues (including this book thingy). So, it may not wind up on the doorstep the day after the offer, but I’ve never known Mel to break his word. If he says you will get a copy, you can be sure you’ll get one (though it may have to wait until after the “Deep Space 9″ marathon on the Sci-Fi Channel.)

Mel doesn’t need me to defend him, but he’s my friend and I know he’ll never tell you what I just did. He’ll simply call himself a lazy slug and take the hit,and I don’t think that’s fair.

Besides, unless someone tells good people like you the situation, how are you supposed to know, right?? Be blessed Benny!!

Certainly I will look it up for mice-elf, but just wondering. Still Love You & mean it! B

(MN: No. It’s on it’s way. I think you were in the first wave of mailings. I will check the pile I still have and make sure it goes out to you. The vast, vast majority of the books have gone out.

Remember, I’m a procrastinator. Not everything happens as soon as I want it too. Though I can only lay the blame at my feet. )

I AM the one (unless there was another) who requested an additional copy for a friend. I agree with your response mostly. But I AM also a person who has placed into the hands of many at my own cost various materials promoting the ‘true’ gospel as well as trying to get the sheeple out of the snare. But I stand humbled and corrected by you for asking for something additional free. You were generous to offer it at all. Thank You! I am awaiting my copy if you have sent it.

Your Friend and fellow Non Pimp…Ben

(MN: No problem. I wasn’t fussing at you or questioning your generosity. )

Friends, seekers, drive-by posters, lend me your ears…How long must you fail to take advantage of the very same means of electronic communication that made it possible for you to request a copy of the book to investigate matters for yourselves??? I do not claim to have any worth or knowledge at all, other that what God in His sovereign grace has afforded me…In fact, many of you are certainly more skilled with the ivory keys than I would ever be…However, it appears that some of you are devoid of the understanding that a true treasure is something that you must search out…With that in mind, allow me to express this one tidbit of advice; if you happen not to be within the number of those who recieve a free copy of the book, fear not, or in the words of that noted philosopher and orator Bart Simpson, “Don’t have a cow dude (or dudette)”…a casual google search containing the words “9 marks” will land you at a place where you can not only get a crash course of what the nine marks of a healthy church are, but within each mark there are articles, free sermons and lectures that give great detail and discuss at length not only the necessity of finding a bible based church, but so many other issues that pertain to true doctrine and godliness. Technology, although it may have it’s negative implications at times, has afforded us the unique opportunity to have right at our fingertips the type of research that used to take years to come amass…Use those heads for something more than hair holders…

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.” (Hosea 4:6) ESV

The mega-churches are engorged with consumers. Some will disagree with me on this, but God ties blind consumerism with the road to hell. Consider the Beast and the False Prophet. The people in league with them will bear a mark to control buying and selling. The False Prophet is going to be selling a universal “new religion”, and a lot of folk are going to blindly buy into it.

The BBC did a documentary on Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, who is considered the father of the Public Relations industry. Bernays saw that the depravity of man could be manipulated with psychological techniques in order to sell products. Bernay’s methods were very successful and have been expanded to politics.

I say that it has been expanded to religion. It is operating in the church growth movement. The Emergent church and the Pimps are using PR methods to spread their false gospel. People are buying into it, are they not?

I say the following to your readers, Brother Melvin;

Don’t take my word for it. Examine these things
yourselves. If you find them to be true, then get the word out. You have Internet access. The information is out there. The tools are freely available. What are you doing with them?

I would like to have one of the books please. Thanks so much for what you are doing, not only giving away the books but warning the sheep about the false prophets through your website.