There is a lot of good stuff in the ******* denomination.  I joined it because it is centre of the road, neither too radical or liberal (although I was in blissful ignorance as to just how liberal / post-modern some have become!).  For all of you out there that are faithful to God, His Word, His Spirit, well done, good on you.  This does not apply to you.

     For the rest, in my experience, I have seen the worst of the worst.  When the Truth is compromised and taken away, you can only be left with a lie - Unless you are a post-modernist who would argue and say, what is truth!  Well, you could read a dictionary I guess, or continue believing delusions.  Is death an illusion?  I guess it depends if you believe you are alive really!  Possibly you are alive, but asleep and dreaming - I hope you wake up to reality one day.  It is not as easy as living a lie, in delusion, but there we are.
      The Bible tells us that in the last days there will be terrible people about. In fact there are a lot of warnings about false apostles, masquerading as angels of light, but who are of the devil.  This won't impress a post-modernist at all by the way, to them everything is relative, there are no absolutes, no truth, no lie, and while they would agree the Bible is God's word, words like 'Bible', 'God', 'word' are all vain imaginations in the mind and in their existential dream world, everything can be anything you want as long as you are not being definite about it!  Personally, I call this insanity!

will recognise them by their fruit'.  That's simple enough isn't it?
     An apostle (Someone representing the denomination?) is someone with incredible responsibility and power, and the true heart can be seen when they are under pressure, or when they are dealing with someone they 'perceive' is their enemy.  Do they build up, help, love, discuss, negotiate, have concern.  Or does their type of thorny fruit bring down, and destroy you?   Do they tell you they are doing it because they love you?  This is counterfeit love, it only pacifies the teller, to support the duality of their thinking, but you feel abandoned because you know they hate you by their deeds, even if their words sound sweet, they are false.  Words are cheap!  They might sound fine, but you know or find out otherwise because actions and deeds are the reality test and tell the truth more than words.
     Look at their deeds, look at their deeds, look at their deeds - for these are the indicator of their heart.  Behaviour is the indicator that will tell you if they are true to Jesus, or if they are false.

     There are those in the ******* denomination who have positions of huge trust and power and are to my mind abusing it terribly.  They might preach with a sweet voice, open the Bible and talk of love - but inside they are ferocious wolves.  They can 'work the crowd', are professionals at spin, can be really convincing, but their deeds will tell you the truth.  How well do they treat those who in their perception are not with them, or who threaten their security.  How well do they treat pastors who they are ejecting unfairly from their jobs.  How well do they assist their families?  How well do they tell the truth, keep their word - or do they spin things however they please?  When they shake your hand and make promises, are you entering a pretend agreement, or will they stick by their word?  What is said to other people and gets leaked onto the street?  What a convenient and useful tool slander is!  How smooth are their words to get you to trust them, but then soon abandon their promises?  How do they handle themselves when you try to point out to them their behaviour, or that they have hurt you?  Do they listen, or chew you up with loud interrupting words, ignore your complaint, don't hear you out and fire back all their perceptions of you at you?  Are they narcissistic?
     What makes you want to vomit even more is when you really have caught them out, you point it out, and ask for an apology.  You get a "well, we acknowledge we could have done better" - Uuuuck, Arrr, spit!  The translation of this could be "We failed to dominate you enough and shut you down" or "We embarrassed ourselves" or "Thought we would have got away with that one" - anything but a sincere apology that would amount to any intention to put things right, behave differently in the future.  They will probably resolve to improve their methods and not get caught again and the embarrassment of having to say "we could have done better".  This is NOT a apology, it is insult.
     A real apology is a) to acknowledge the wrongdoing (sin), b) be sincere in giving an apology, c)  make amends where appropriate (like putting things right).  d) not carry on doing the same again.
      Repentance has to be personal, from the heart, specific and with no intention to repeat the deed ever again.  Anything short of this is not an apology!  Recently someone said to me "Oh, yes, sorry about that".  "The next thing I want to talk to you about is…"  and just carried right on doing the very same thing they sere supposedly sorry about!   It is the next to most insincere apology you can get. (The first is above).  This makes you vomit!
     Remember, when all is going well these people are seemingly successful, lovely, happy, nice people and you might be impressed with them.  When they are against someone they turn into terrible people and their true self comes to the surface and their heart can be seen by these deeds.
     So, the words of scripture hold true: