Last and final ultimatum

Now, this is the last letter that certain elders wanted to give as clarification for their beliefs, in hopes of preserving what is their so called 'True Faith'.  After the momentous turn of events from Morris, MN and Lamar, MO, those staunch elders decided to write this Preservation Effort letter as what has been conjectured as an ultimatum for the majority elders to distinguish what the schism was entailing.  As the letter writers even clearly spell out, their desire was to remain steadfast with the ACCA denomination, but they wanted the remaining elders to give their blessings for their preservation efforts.

What really happened was how the two elders, Art Nohl and Lawrence Luthi caused such strong descension among their flocks that the Elder Body decided to excommunicate them for reasons of rebellion.  That I can honestly say was a remarkable step in the right direction for excommunication discipline upon them, it is just sad that it happened way to late in the history of ACCA.  I feel those elders had been sowing seeds of discord long before this schism really happened.  Had strong elders been able to see the trees through the forest, much pain and spiritual suffering could have been avoided.  But God does rule supreme and by his sovereign grace, I admit the decisions that the Elder Body took in 2012 has been rewarded with God's blessings.  I say this in light of the fact that those remaining in the ACCA clearly have a better free choice to either stay with the church or depart and go where they feel directed by the spirit.

The sadness of their Christian life.

Here, I want to say that these statements are radically twisted to justify those elders deeply ingrained traditional beliefs, which really only causes some people to walk away from Jesus Christ, and not toward him with conviction.  God has never meant to punish believers for embarking upon His perfect way to live a life of solitary sadness.  These elders have put extremely large amount of false pressure to their followers, when they themselves can not even give a true promise of eternal glories in heaven for their Christian brethern.  If the followers do perfect works of self-righteousness in perfect accordance to their prescriptions, then it would seem that the elders could even at least give a fruitful promise to a dieing follower; however, when a follower is at the end of life they can only have a small hope to get to heaven.  How radical for a powerful elder to create such ungodly fear into a person's life, that they would even want to listen to them.

That is why God, who is supreme, and hold our destiny in his hands, wants us to faithfully rely on him with the power of grace and full promise assurance to get to heaven.  God never meant for believers to fear with hand-wringing doubt for their promise to enjoy in paradise.  Christians can hence go through life with ever abounding joy to then be ushered into the glorious realm in the sweet bye and bye.

More...almost all

What this page is about is a continuation of the dogma that those elders simply dug into and unrelentingly pressured the majority ACCA elders to adhere to.  My definition of such behavior is implacable, which is advised against in Romans 1:31.  I do not judge them, but rather just expose their insidious efforts to promote their old-fashioned traditions to supersede God's perfect will, which is love above all.

Therefore, as these blogs wind down, I have taken great effort to place into history these momentous events which occurred from 2012 until now.

Elder rebellion signatures...the few ultra-conservatives

This is the last letter written by these now excommunicated elders.  This happened just prior to the August conference of 2012.  Certain chain of events at the Morris, MN and Lamar, MO congregations that elders Art Nohl and Lawrence Luthi (respectively) started the Apostolic Christian Faith Church.  As noted previously, Wayne Grimm (who had signed the previous letter) chose not to follow these elders and hence remained with the Apostolic Christian Church in West Bend, IA where he is still the under-shepherd.

The schism developed very rapidly across USA as other elders and ministers joined in to depart the ACCA denomination.  Places like Eureka, IL, Congerville, IL and Forrest, IL suffered horrendous schism.  A large portion of those assemblies lost members for ACFC.  So, what then happened was the need for those departed members to find other places of worship, which was rather difficult in certain towns.  This being September 2015, now, some of those groups have built new facilities and others have purchased older existing churches in different towns.