Dealing with Hypocrisy and Hubris in the Church and Among Christians
- hostarrasy
- Nov 5, 2023
- 11 min read
Updated: Nov 17, 2023
So how do you deal with Hypocrisy & LIES?
Like Jesus did, call it out.
AFC… I am mortified!
While we seek to act like Jesus did, ultimately, we are *not* Jesus. We are not perfect like Jesus. So we must tamper our actions with mercy. If your righteousness is just for show, if it's just for others to see, then what is the point? Ask yourself that.
Why have people chosen to exalt themselves? The way of the world is to put yourself first, to exalt yourself, and brag "on yourself". The way of the world is pride and arrogance. But the way of Jesus is anything but. Time after time after time, he showed us true humility. Why, then, is it that Christian leaders find it so incredibly hard to humble themselves? Why do they exalt themselves in a way Jesus frowned upon? Jesus was counter-cultural in many ways and maybe even slightly confusing in some, but he was clear on what and who he stood for. This, is how I know that to be a follower of Jesus is to care about justice, about mercy and about faith.
Quote by Christian minister and author Vance Havner on the true cleanliness of the church.
"Too many church members are starched and ironed but not washed."
What the church most needs is not heroes of faith, but faithful followers of Jesus.
Scot McKnight
Open Letter to Roger Chase
Apostolic Faith Church of Jesus Christ the Lord, Inc. 5305 Accokeek Road(Rt 373), TB, MD 20613
Therein lies the problem with "ones should keep their mouths shut"! I am the one that had to see the hurt on Mother's Gray's face at 98 years old... but, it should not have had to come that way. Then, as she selflessly does wanted to know if I was okay? Not when someone wants to blow smoke up my a@#$%^s. Whatever the unfounded reasoning ones want to use to remove the Founders portrait after 21+years? Hum, do one's worship the stained glass windows in the churches? You, amigos calling my Dad a "graven image"? When has any "to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God." When did AFCJCL people use Deacon Gray's picture or image to represent GOD!
Just as much, I despise, "sincere ignorance", "A Misguided Black on the Eve of Freedom, a “Negro Disciple”, and a colonized NIGGER still mentally enslaved! And, "isms" beliefs! You wanta' talk about manipulation, and "graven idolatry?"... let's talk Tiny, idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God, the Bible does say "Study to shew thyself approved unto God?
You do understand Mother Gray is in her right mind! And, I lived and saw all things and maybe things I should not know, but I do… like who’s not a Tolson, your father with Gloria, and you all women sharing, things I knew long before it came out. Question for me is who was Rhett screwing? Both Deacon Gray and Mother Gray kept immaculate records and diaries. What’s done behind closed doors will come to light. For me ones can’t see what’s right in their face, to spite their nose, when all one cares about as we believe Mr. Wanta' Be Little Mr Big-shot! I see pompous egotism... it's not what you think of yourself. Still discord and even more confusion! Now, for yearrrrrrrrs, my Dad Deacon Gray, best ever Godfather looking over me Bishop Simmons did not deserve it then or now, honorable men of integrity, and good character never any disgrace or immorality brought on the Church. The lies, stealing by my dad's sister and so called brother, this church MESS, that sinks to high hell, turning in his grave? Financial backers you untrustees have listed in the Church foyer is the biggest LIE there is! As my mother would say, "don't have a pot to "^&=@#$", or a window to throw it out of, had to be picked for church, had no transportation?
My Dad Deacon Gray stood for what was RIGHT, TRUTH! He stressed that to me… because you cannot stand on anything else! And, what’s being done now at AFC is reprehensible. In addition, to the way this AFC Church has treated Mother Gray is an abomination, so much for this AFC taking care of the widows not to mention she's the Founders wife that made numerous sacrifices for "all" those Churches. If it was not for Deacon Gray there would BE NO CHURCHES period, and at his, and our expense. The mess has not stopped that you three amigos (if I recall you had left too Roger with Mike, and that's when you came back to the church) all started with Elder Hearse and then the mess with Brother James and Yvette's family (Martyna), complicit?, my considered humble opinion, reap the benefits then cry wolf after the fact?, sued AFC (?) files a civl suit not criminal? (who benefited off the Church) the Court case for which I have those records too. CAE1620126_Apostolic Faith Church Of Jesus Christ The Lord Inc., Plaintiff Prince George's County Circuit Court Apostolic Faith Church vs Mason.
Have you told the Church members in 2013 that you, Tiny, and Micheal came to me to draft documents and letters for which I have those records and emails to be published, auhhhh very telling of all one's motives! I was just the naive one to think right was to come of it? I was your bestie then, now, you three put the knife in my back! It's the same official church documents, nothings changed, other than it did not fit you amigos agenda, then employ Michelle Rhett to do your unlawful bidding for you three amigoes, I have her paperwork too... the recordings... the Lies need to stop, and, for all, to be complicit is the same! CAE1620126_Apostolic Faith Church Of Jesus Christ The Lord Inc. Plaintiff Prince George's County Circuit Court Apostolic Faith Church vs Mason.
One thing does not LIE and I have my dad’s church records with the financial records from the beginning with the original paperwork for which I will be publishing…and in the documentary… the $10, $50 some a $100 here and there… the building supplies for all the Churches for which I have those records too: ALL WAS ON DEACON GRAYS BACK and HE CARRIED ALL! Even Bishop Young with his $50 and $10 dollars… I see it as wicked as to the lies told and being continued. It is a material fact that I am the Legal Successor Trustee and we have no problem taking that to Court (or the family village members in Christ for that matter) and for the good of the public; Atrocity and an abomination! Deacon Gray created a CHURCH not a Business to be joined and/or sold down the river (paying tides now?) Hypocrisy at its finest and church charades! Now, one’s took issue with me the woman but ones have no problem with Tiny’s daughters taking over and running the Church for which, we see, believe and experienced their rude nasty boyish mannerisms especially towards Mother Gray and myself, really and RED!
I think in your HEART, you wanted Mother Gray, your Aunt at the event, and no one else... remember the untrustee Board called yourselves Putting Me OUT, when I called you all out on your lies and the hypocrisy, for which all you untrustees stood in the church foyer and told BAREFACED LIES, which I taped by the way... now all of one's hatred for me in speaking up to expose the lies, yet ones forget yet again in 2013 you, Tiny, Micheal and others come to me about James and Hearse! Now, I see ones only wanted to be in charge at any cost. With the secret meetings at Micheal house, I will name names as to those participants... remember D'LL I have his notebook? I will name names as to who took part.
Not to mention a mockery of a charade in the neighborhood for which I am an Appointed and Elected Leader in Brandywine TB. Too, the Church is in TB not Brandywine. For which I run a fully funded million dollar+ nonprofit... vision owed to my father. You disrespectful cuz to myself, furthermore, most of all to Deacon and Mother Gray. All, the while one’s, current members, or one's that left, ran off/out, or stand on what's right... or one's that remain are sitting on the sidelines being complicit caving to the evilness and the wolf in sheep's clothing, with this oneness. Oh that's right I call you the three amigos, in out, not around for the teaching of Deacon Gray, nor participated! God of karma will... a House built on lies will fall! Alllllll those that have LEFT AFC church cannot be wrong? AFCJCL still, no growth, the CONFUSION STILL REMAINS! Don't have to ask why or who it should be clear to ALL!
If you stand for nothing... you will fall for anything, period. Especially, when one's are weak minded!
The deception, and complete fabrication of the material facts being told about the AFCJCL Church is an atrocity making a mockery of my dad, Deacon Gray’s legacy, right in my mother’s face and what AFCJCL stood on and for, just allowed to be destroyed… changing the history. And, the way things look next the Churches and the properties will be gone or given away. Someone will STAND! My dad talked about the quiet Giant!
You amigos wanting to be leaders having NO LEADERSHIP,
not a Minister, or Deacon, Humm...
One’s cannot be led nor will you let yourself's be taught! Elder Butler is the Overseer!
No Respect!
And, that should be without question to lead: as a leader you do have to have a back bone, not ridding the fence, go along to get alone. Looks like my dad's faith in some may have been mis-guided! Leading means making hard decisions and standing, not wavering like a fish out of water. Age has nothing to do with RIGHT or TRUTH! Out in the WILDERNESS WONDERING for whom ever comes along!
Where there is confusion GOD IS NOT! Ask Jennie about that? I see you amigos as the Kingdom of the Occult worshipers! Now, the false Doctrine? Deacon Gray wrote about be aware of those that would come along to change the DOCTRINE! While all are being led as if there's a ring in your noise, dictatorship of one by three amigoes! Don't have a mind of you own? Not lead by the spirit of GOD? Well, he did name, names... apples don't fall far from the tree as the saying goes.
The Founder, Deacon Gray’s Vision of AFCJCL destroyed by this AFC, but I do plan to carry it forth. Looking back my dad was way before his time, but not really, that's what it means when GOD gives you a Vision to serve and I am now more grateful than ever for which both taught me and to carry on, GOD is not keeping Mother Gray here without purpose and in her right mind by mistake... believe that! And, this is NOTHING against Bishop Young, he was honorable, it's the others having self-serving agenda's around him, less than honorable hiding a sickness is fraudulent, not having the mental capacity, in not being able to make sound decisions, in one's surrounding him self-serving, waiting and plotting until Bishop Young was gone!
YOU ALL WHERE GONE... WHY?... WHY DID YOU COME BACK? The church is even more in an abyss Luke 8:31: you cannot reason, or reason away unreasonableness as we know in law being a direct cause and affect of the churches imperilment! Give something away that was not given to you! Can't take care of your own houses, losing property, then want to give someone else's hard work others away to the Devil?
For me this says a lot about who you follow? The Churches belong to the PEOPLE! Dumb negroes, and the continuation of the destruction of a black civilization and our generational wealth. That's why you don't give to ones that never had it to began with, especially ones that are UNQUALIFIED and UNLEARN! Understanding that 68% of Blacks are at a six grade level. Followers after... not leaders, a weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
One's that are complacent remind's me of a "Colonized CULT",
but then again these are family followers? A good leader will have integrity,
self-awareness, courage, respect, empathy, and gratitude. Don't know
what you don't know? Can't be told anything cuzzz you know it ALL!
The crap makes me sick! Any way you cut it shit stinks! Deacon Gray’s Vision as the Founder of AFCJCL has been destroyed by this Hypocrisy of this AFC…for which he wrote about these times but I do plan to carry it forth the reason I run my father's Vision 2Bridge... there will be a Senior Building in Brandywine, TB Maryland.
The Church is not about self-serving to exalt yourself but exalted by the work you do and the light you shine for the benefit of others and in saving souls! I will not be answering or reading a response at all; as a Commissioner and VP of SCEDA, my good name and reputation proceeds me as my fathers, in the Community, as Deacon Gray taught me! This AFC as we, the community, and I know it to be now is an embarrassment in a community, for which I am elected to represent for two decades! Not to mention a laughing stock by the religious community, ohhh they are aware of a person who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or to speak or be sent by God! Research for yourself, that's where "sincere ignorance" comes in... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp965N7148g You amigos thinking you are not part of the problem is the problem. True leaders not only listen but hear!
I detest a Stupid F@#$%^&*!'k'! All of YOU treating Mother Gray how you feel about me, shameful! Keep talking behind my back because that's what hypocrites. I am right here, I am not afraid of SNAKES! Got something to say don't be spineless say it to my face I have on big girl panties! Don't like me, well I don't like me either sometimes, we all have faults... clearly understand your opinion of me does not define who I am! Bit of housekeeping... you may not like my delivery it maybe could have been a bit more graceful? But, if anything here is a lie "prove it". Unto; then, I "give you empathy"!
Know your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction is an awareness of me, and therefore this open letter! Step into your truth! I am an INTJ, type A only 1% to 3% of the population, so I get you don't understand! Step Aside by Yolanda Adams" Move yourself out of the way! Following after GOD is a good thing, be Sober Minded!
The duty of loyalty requires an undivided allegiance to GOD and his WORD!
“Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently,
yet today many in church are chasing after the world –
not to win them, but to be like them.”— Billy Graham
“The biggest threat to the church today is fans who call themselves Christians but aren’t actually interested in following Christ.”— Kyle Idleman
Tim Challies - "When the preferences of the church members are greater than their passion for the Gospel, the church is dying."
Christianity means a lot more than church membership.— Billy Sunday
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation—— Archibald Alexander Hodge
We must re-grasp the idea of "church membership" as being the
membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which
can come man's way in this world— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him (3 amigos) be to you (me) as a Gentile and a tax collector.
KJV
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Isaiah 1:18 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
One last note: Calling Mother Gray? Can’t come visit… repulsive! I am most likely not to answer due to my schedule or on our 37" Yacht running DEKA PB&J… All they have done for ALL! Really!
I am proud to be a descendent NORTHERN NEGRO Free since 1783! Not colonized or complacent! And, not subject too Co-Optimizations & Exploitations by our own race! Hence, no real unity among US! If only the possibilities. And, with all those that have left? Not "unity just for unity", but unity for great achievements, not one of which can be realized without it"! Not, "I" alone you amigos! You have not built and/or created ANYTHING, yet destroying for we assert the facts will show what you took under false pretenses!
“Truth is the most powerful weapon we have against the enemy.”
Have a wonderful blessed day, be safe!
More history at www.afcjcl.org
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