Just one more thing: Note of encouragement - Dexter H Faulkner - December 16, 1985

Dexter H Faulkner

In the Sept. 17 Worldwide News, I published a "Just One More Thing" column titled "Do You Have It Made?" I mentioned that some close friends of mine had been disfellowshipped, and I reminded readers of the need to be constantly vigilant about using God's Spirit to grow and overcome. Otherwise we can put ourselves in danger of dying spiritually. Judging from the surprising letters I received in response to that column, I need to explain a couple of often - misunderstood points and add a word of special encouragement. The disfellowshipped person is like someone who has stumbled into quicksand. He was, along with many companions (symbolically, others in the Church), traveling through a swamp (spiritually, this world). He was in the swamp, but was not to become part of it ! He should have realized the danger he was in and taken precautions to walk only on the most solid ground he could find. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library