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-------- Original Message --------
| From: |
Bob |
| To: |
Danny Shelton |
| Subject: |
Truce? |
| Date: |
Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:41:51 -0600 |
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Hi Danny.
This is more of a pastoral letter than anything else.
You know, before I sent that last email, I was really beginning
to feel bad for you. It looks like such an impossible situation,
with no good solutions, like a bad dream. I would not want to
be in your shoes just now.
I've been in bad situations before (nothing like this, though),
and it sure wasn't fun. It can be so devastating. And I truly
do feel bad for you.
What do you think would bring the most glory to God, and be
truly the best for 3ABN? Would it not be to step aside after
doing what you can to facilitate the immediate implementation
of some of the structural reforms Gailon has had in mind, where
there are proper checks and balances to prevent this kind of
thing from ever happening again?
I just thought I would try to reach out to you before, well,
before whatever happens next.
Did you have opportunity to read that story from the SOP I
attached to the end of my last letter? What did you think of
that? I honestly could not read it without breaking down and
crying. Praise God for His mercy, power, and grace!
Long ago I had a sermon entitled, "Mercy for Manasseh." Too
many people think they have sinned too much to be pardoned, forgiven,
cleansed, and saved. Well, Manasseh was a preacher's kid of sorts,
offered his own kids up as sacrifices, sawed Isaiah in half,
and filled Jerusalem with blood, and the Bible even says that
God sent Judah into captivity because God couldn't forgive Manasseh's
sins.
Yet in spite of all that, when Manasseh was in a dungeon in
Babylon, he turned to God and prayed, and God forgave him personally
even though He could not forgive the nation as a whole for those
sins, and Manasseh was restored to his throne.
Then he immediately went about trying to undo all the damage
he had done. Of course he couldn't succeed in that entirely,
but he tried, and that's all that God is looking for.
Now if God could pardon Manasseh, he most certainly can pardon
you and me. Praise His name!
Do you believe that? That's the first and biggest step, to
believe. Would you take that step just now?
Bob
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