Elders rebellion signatures

What is noted here is five elder signatures who took upon themselves in a spirit of rebellion to endorse this letter in hopes of regaining lost ground in regards to old fashioned traditions.  To my understanding, these elders experimented with propaganda methods and rhetoric in various circles to promote their secret agendas of discord.  As the discord grew in speech volume, the divisions among the brotherhood grew starkly contrasted.  Though these elders tried so desperately to hold other less conservative elders accountable to AC doctrine, they in effect galvanized strong divisions in the flocks.

I do know for a fact that Wayne Grimm had a change of heart later and apologized for this indiscretion toward the majority elder body.  If the other four would of had the same change, many blessings could have been brought forth toward unity and truth.  In effect the name of Jesus to have been glorified.  But, now there is a schism and hurts and heartaches among families in the denominations.

As this blog comes to close, I humbly submit my feelings and also a sense of deep grieving for the people still suffering through the hurts of the schism 2012.  May there be a positive to come from years of grief and heartache that someday we will understand better.

Questions 12-18...more dogma

What we see here is a continued effort of those elders to try and dislodge the rudiments of dynamic change in the Apostolic Christian Church of America.  ACCA is a long standing denomination, first settled in upper New York within Mennonite-Amish circles in the foot hills of the Adirondack Mountains in Lewis County.  Newly appointed elder missionary Brother Benedict Weyeneth was the first missionary for the Evangelical Baptist Church in Switzerland to travel to Croghan in hopes of settling a dispute that arose between various factions in the Anabaptist churches there.  But what he discovered was a real awakening for lost souls to repent and be baptized in their faith with God, the Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and The Holy Ghost.  Brother Weyeneth's ministry caused many souls to turn to God in deep contrition and withdraw from the erring doctrines of those Anabaptist believers.  Within a short period of time even the leading Elder Virkler followed Weyeneth's preaching and was immediately converted to the new faith.  Whereupon that was the blossoming of a brand new movement in America with a name of Evangelical Baptist but very much loosely denominated.

Brother Weyeneth began many more mission trips across the fruited plains in the latter half of the 19th century, and starting many new churches with a magnitude beyond imagination.  All because, indeed, God blessed the spiritual works of repentance and conversion certainly in those areas.  Weyeneth did not choose to go to any seminary, but embarked upon pure graceful efforts to preach out the true callings of God into the burdened hearts of men all around him.  As the loose denomination grew rapidly mostly in the central USA, other leaders were called into ministry and elderships.  Brother Weyeneth finally settled in Woodford County, IL near Roanoke.  He passed away in 1887 and his gravestone remains in a small cemetery.  The next generation of leaders from late 1900 to 1940 took up the leadership roles and established much of the remaining doctrines with in the church today.  In the '20s the name of the denomination changed to Apostolic Christian Church because of fierce persecution of brothers in the first world war conscription.  The elders chose to rename the church to eliminate aligning with other baptist theologies.

When the next generation of leaders came into play, many many deep seated traditions were established in place of doctrines that today seem rather obtuse.  For example is the practice of Holy Kiss among the members in the denomination.  That practice is really fruitless toward love as it really just means a method of discipline even to keeping an erring member from participating with it.  Such error from the Holy Word of God to be judgmental and unloving to a stumbling brother.

This blog really gives indication that many traditions pale in promoting compassion and true love among fellow believers in Christ.

Additional Dogma Questions 6-11

I have finally gotten back on track to give more detailed answers for the question contained in "THIS WE CONTINUE TO BELIEVE".  I have high lighted the most obvious questions that stand out to me, in regards to error of beliefs when looked at in light of God's precious word.  In general theory, there is the unwritten rhetoric that somehow the AC Faith Church followers try to put God into their box of ideals.  When humankind try desperately to make God obey their set standards it turns out rather quirky and prideful.  That has been my major thesis in this rebuttal blog.  I adamantly think that those elders who rebelled against the majority of AC elders in 2012, have chosen a path of selfishness and self-works all in the disguise of traditions.  Which, believe it or not, traditions have a never ending dynamic of change to them.  What is believed now, is much different then say, even 160-170 years ago, when the religion first started in Switzerland.

Times have a way of changing things.  Some things for the better (as in technological advances that the church even enjoys and participates in [e.g. cars, telephones, computers and internet] and then missions and humanitarian reliefs for needy people.  And then there are negative changes also (as in ideological dogma deep seated in old fashioned traditions that error from the true meaning of God's Word [e.g. hairstyles, dress codes, appearances, and language with prayers and songs].  So, God gives humankind exceptional privileges  to act in liberty, but not to use liberty for occasion to the flesh [1 Corinthians 10:23 and Galatians 5:13]