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Lee University has just recently built a new fountain on campus. Water flows from the top over a brick column. From there, it comes to a central tier before flowing over into the bottom pool. At the very top is a censer from which a fire burns right over the water. So, the water is flowing from underneath the flame. I was thinking and walking around campus a few nights ago, and at about midnight I found myself in front of this particular fountain. The fire was raging from its censer as the water swiftly crashed over the bricks and into the pool below. It really was quite a sight for me in light of my midnight musings. Parallels began to form, yet remained incomplete until later in the night. After spending some time there to hold conversations with the Father, I felt I should move on.
I eventually made my way over to the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, located right next to Lee’s campus. There is a very calm, quiet garden in the center of the seminary. And what is in this garden? There are some trees, flowers, benches, and…..a fountain. This fountain is larger than Lee’s Eternal Flame Fountain. However, the flow from the top of this fountain had been shut off. The water had become still and stagnant. There was complete silence. As I began to ponder this, I dipped the tips of my middle three fingers into the water. They came away black. I wiped them on my jeans, picked up my backpack and headed on my way.
These two fountains came to represent two distinct facets within the ideals of The Resistance. The Eternal Flame Fountain became a picture of the True Church. It was alive, active, burning, forceful, and captivating. Anyone passing by would give at least a grain of attention to its nature. The True Church should be all these things and more, the roaring sound of truth lighting the way in the darkness of this Corrupt System. The fire is the power of God, and the water the rush of the Holy Spirit. Sadly, this is not so. You see, the Corrupt System has infiltrated and infected the True Church, leaving her battered, bruised, and frail. Instead of being the wonderful fountain of Eternal Flame, she is nothing than the dark, dank, silent Fountain of Stagnation. This has come through division, complacency, apathy, and over all slumber in the Church. It is for this reason that The Resistance exists.
We must reclaim the actions and practices of the True Church. No longer can we sit idly by and twiddle our thumbs while we pretend the world isn’t going to Hell. No longer can we call ourselves Christians and leave the actions to the preachers. If we are to be the True Church, then we must rise up. The Resistance is made up of those in Christianity who wish to see the True Church restored. We must reclaim the actions of love and humility in ministry, as well as the sound, stable Traditions of the True Church. The Resistance exists not to destroy, but to change and modify. The True Church is in need of a new Reformation. The Reformers were nothing more than early leaders of The Resistance. Consider this a manifesto. For those who are tired of the way things are in the church, who would like to see something different. We must again become the salt and light in the world. Things need to change. Exactly what change is needed will come in future transmissions. Right now, I am trying to keep them short and to the point.
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