Uncovering the Mystery of GCx
Blindsided Believers
AudioEnglish.net defines
blindside (or
blindsided) as
“Catch unawares, especially with harmful consequences” Baker’s Dictionary of Evangelical Biblical Theology quotes Ralph E. Enlow, Jr. saying “
spiritual blindness can also afflict believers who fail to perceive their true spiritual condition. To avoid the
plague of spiritual blindness and escape the condemnation of
leading others into spiritual ruin, believers must be quick to appropriate and obey the Word of God”.
The New Testament says of believers, “For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. The person who lacks these things is
blind and shortsighted, and has forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.”
(2 Peter 1:8-9 HCSB) We don’t typically think that believers can be spiritually blind, especially ourselves. Recently, I was made aware by the Holy Spirit how very prideful, rude and unloving I have been (for years) toward some in my life I should have very much appreciated and treated with humility and tenderness. God brought about in me a grief and regret over behaviors I was unaware of or
blind to until then, that were actually arrogant and hurtful. I have heard well-known mature christians say the closer they grow to God the more aware they become of things they once thought innocent were actually sinful and hurtful. The things I believe they are referring to are those of the inner life rather than the outward one.
There
are schemes Satan has to catch us unaware, and seem to be temptations not apparent to man's natural eye. They don’t appear to be direct disobedience to God’s laws like sexual immorality, murder, stealing, lying or worshipping golden cows. In fact, to the spiritually young they may even appear good. When what has actually happened is that the line of attack on us was where
our vision was obstructed, where we were NOT at all expecting it, and often crushes us with detrimental results to our faith and well-being. We got tricked (fooled) because we never even saw it coming, and even more insidious is that we may not even realize that we have been hit or injured.
"you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or pushes himself forward or slaps you in the face"
(2 Corinthians 11:20)
“I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.”
( Acts 20:29)
Don't you SEE what GCx's actual founder and national leader, Jim McCotter, was doing to us and the blind guides he taught. He drew us in with the cloak of a shepherd speaking with contrived humbleness and artificial gentleness; and then attacked our dignity and standing in Christ with soft yet mutilating words that said we were
not good enough, not good enough yet, and accused us of being too proud and immature for real closeness to and true revelation from God Almighty. He
had the answer for your problem of not being good enough (which is a LIE in the first place). You had to become like him who
boasted in his humility, sacrifice, obedience and maturity in Christ; all the while testifying in his actions just the opposite, that he was indeed a liar. If you need a reminder, just watch the last part of his Spiritual Gifts "Conference.
I was even there in that conference and
was BLIND at the time, and
didn't see it for 5 more years (I had been there five years already. That's a total of ten.)!
Don't subject yourself any longer to this man's
yeast of false teaching and lies about who you are in Christ. It permeates throughout the GCx churches
because they will not publically disassociate with him or condemn his teaching. Don't put up with so called "spiritual teachers" "pushing you around" and "slapping you in the face".
I believe God is begging you to leave. Here are some fatherly and endearing words of God toward
his people:
"They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear...
Therefore ... pack your belongings for exile and in the daytime, as they watch, set out and go from where you are to another place.
Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.
During the daytime, while they watch, bring out your belongings packed for exile.
Then in the evening, while they are watching, go out like those into exile..."
Ezekiel 12:2,3,4
Please pause and calmly think about this in your heart. Close your eyes and listen to
"Take My Hand" by Lindsay McCaul. Pray that you will SEE and hear and GO. I have a strange inkling you'll feel his presence as you go...
