[Faith-talk] False Accusations

[Corey Cook]

Beth, always remember,
God will not be stopped because of who is in the white house.
God is in control, and his plans will not be stopped.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beth Kats" <bethkats at cox.net>
To: "'Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion'" 
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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] False Accusations


>I agree with you, Linda.  I wasn't pleased with the election.  We all need
> to remember that God is in control.  Our Pastor said that God gives us 
> what
> we need even though it isn't always what we want.  I need to work on
> remembering that God is in control even though his plan is not what we had
> hoped.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:faith-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Linda Mentink
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:59 PM
> To: Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
> Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] False Accusations
>
> Hi Julie,
>
> I'm sorry, too.  I'm not against our president elect because he's
> black.  Fact is, he's half black.  That's neither here nor
> there.  It's mainly because he's the most liberal of all in Congress,
> and I believe that a lot of our rights will be taken away once he is
> sworn in.  We'll see what happens, but I'm praying for him, and all
> the rest in authority over us.  I sent those things to you because I
> knew you wouldn't find out from the mainstream media.  But the
> election has made history, and God's people need to be more vigilent than
> ever.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Linda
>
> At 03:33 PM 11/8/2008, you wrote:
>>It happened by accident.  When you didn't stop attacking in my
>>in-box--those of you who did it--people of other races by way of our
>>new President-elect, I wrote what I wrote.  Now you know how false
>>accusations hurt everybody.  Because of one man the African-American
>>Church, and people who attend them, have been under tremendous
>>attack ever since last March with no let-up.  Ever since I began
>>attending and became saved in African-American churches in 1972,
>>I've heard dirty, dirty comments like:  "they just do in their
>>church what they did in the slave days."  In the slave days,
>>African-Americans weren't permitted to know anything of the Bible
>>but "Servants obey your masters in the Lord for this is right.
>>
>>If people say what people have said about one another's churches
>>ever since last March, referring to us as blind people, we'd be up
>>in arms.  Let us all be more careful.
>>
>>It hit me like a thunderbolt while I was playing piano at a senior
>>citizens building today why you all were upset.  And as upset as you
>>were last Thursday night, Linda, I was that upset one month ago when
>>I read what you particularly sent me privately at 5:00 on a Sunday
>>morning while  I was getting ready for church.  I'm sorry and maybe
>>we can understand one another better now.
>>
>>  has been
>>
>>"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a
>>human soul," American Humorist Mark Twain
>>
>>"An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," Dr. Kenneth
>>Jernigan, Immediate Past President, National Federation of the Blind
>>
>>"A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and
>>their contentions are like the bars of a castle." Proverbs 18 19. KJV
>>
>>"Faith is the ability to see God in the dark.," (unknown)
>>
>>"No one can do it for us but us," Rev. Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, 
>>1976.
>>
>>"With proper training, development, and opportunity, blindness can
>>be reduced to the level of a physical nuisance or characteristic,"
>>the Late Dr. Kenneth Jernigan, Past President, National Federation
>>of the Blind.
>>
>>Julie Vogt or jcvogt at pressenter.com
>>
>>
>>
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