But none of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto myself that I might finish my course with gladness and the mission I have received of the Lord Jesus Christ to teach and preach the gospel of the grace of God.”

Name: Mark Brown
Age: 18
Location: Croatia
Nationality: Canadian/Italian

Hey everyone, to start off I want to say that this site has been a great inspiration to me. I’m one of those people who prefer not to type out stuff if they can help it but just today I saw that the number of contributions to the “My conclusion” site has reached 360…wow so hey if I can make that 370 it’s worth the effort. I’ve lived all my life in the Family International and I can honestly say that I wouldn’t have it any other way. I was raised for 5 years in the Rome combo but that too is a part of my life that I am thankful for and wouldn’t change at all. I have always preferred to look on the small handful of vindictive ex-members as one would look upon an annoying fly that up until now I have been content to shrug off as no consequence. But they are proving to be one “sick” little fly.

I’ve just recently read the rebuttals package and with it the “moving on violent rhetoric quotes” and it stank to the high heavens. I’ve never really given the devil as much credit before, till I read some of that foul-mouthed stuff. Was all I could do to keep from retching! And to think that they once led lives much the same as mine is what makes it all the more horrible, How someone could turn so violently away from what they know to be the truth is totally beyond me. What comes to mind is a picture of the Orcs or something. Once Elves, the fairest and most beautiful of all creatures that through years of torture and deformation became the hideous beasts they were portrayed as in the Lord of the Rings. When I read some of their postings I could only imagine the spiritual mutilation some of them must have undergone to turn them into such heartless, filthy, black hearted people. I feel a mixture of both disgust and pity…..and yet I have remained silent all this time. An attack on my faith is something that I’m beginning to realize cannot be taken lying down! To the contrary I’d rather fancy taking the example of Grandpa who many a time got heated up over these kinds of people and encouraged us to boldly contend for the faith. Heck if my convictions are going to cost me my life one day then I find no shame in me raising my voice over them. Jesus said: “Whosoever will be ashamed of me in this wicked and sinful generation of him also shall the Father be ashamed of, when he comes with the angels in his glory…. .Talk about that for embarrassment: The king of the universe asking you in front of all creation why you were ashamed to speak of your faith in him. “I am not ashamed of the Lord!” And if one day I should have to face down the soon-to-come Anti-Christ government or (God forbid) another knife-wielding ex-member I swear by the grace of God that my answer will be the same! My advice to those profane individuals who were hiding behind aliases: Stop provoking God! You’re locking horns with a power you should learn to fear. NO ONE has ever won a stand off with the Lord EVER!! No matter how stubborn or willful the individual was they always had to admit, either in this life or the next, that their own idea was crap compared to the life the Lord wanted them to lead. And you will be forced to face shame for your words and actions one day!

The Family will move ahead and don’t try to play “chicken” with us either because we got one awesome Jesus at the wheel and if you don’t get the hell out of the way then he’s just gonna run right over you baby! These ex-members can deny their faith all they want but only the fool hath said in his heart there is no God. So if they wanna go ahead being fools then great! Give my regards to Darwin! But for God’s sake quit stirring up trouble for us who are actually making a mark in history. Quit your mud slinging, Get off your soap box and actually try to do some good for someone else!

Theodore Roosevelt:
“In the battle of life, it is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out where the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…who does actually strive to do the deeds…whose place will never be among those cold and timid souls who never knew either victory or defeat!”

If you choose to be one of those critics or one of those cold and timid souls then all I can say is that you will live to regret it and it will be to your everlasting shame and contempt. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. And to my dying breath I hope to remain in that arena fighting for what I know to be right striving to do the works of Him who sent me while it is yet day for the night is coming when no man can work.

Mark Brown is a second-generation member of The Family International