“You have expressed well the problem.”

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Subject: Stonecroft Ministries
From:    “————————”
Date:    Fri, December 29, 2006 8:32 pm
To:      christine@earnestlycontend.com
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Christine,
  
  I just happened to come across your website. Praise the Lord!
  
  I served 15 years with Stonecroft Ministries (Friendship Bible Studies & Christian Woman’s Club). Within those years I resigned twice because of conflict with my convictions and the Leadership of the organization.
  
  You have expressed well the problem. I dearly loved the Bible Studies with new Christians and training leaders to guide studies. Due to my husbands job we have moved many times across America and back. This ministry always helped to give me good friends as well as find new churches.
  
  I thank God for your boldness to write your letter to Stonecroft. I, too wrote letters (before Joyce Courtney) and received much the same response or none. I do not feel it is the same organization I was introduced to, 25 years ago.
  
  I too, pray for all those involved, in leadership, Headquarters and around the world to come to a full knowledge of the counsel of God’s Word that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
  
  We perceive a cultural counterfeit, a “designer” deity instead of the true Holy God who made us in His image and so we miss God altogether. It is a “distorted view of a god made in our image” (Steve Lawson).
  
  God is holy, awesome, sovereign and righteous. I am humbled and in worshipful submission to His majesty and glory.
  
  Shalom,
   
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