[The author’s translation
of his original Swedish email:]
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To: Göran Hansen, President
of the Swedish Union of Churches Conference
Sent: ”Saturday,
April 26, 2014 8:24 PM”
Cc: Daniel Heilimariam, Missionssekreterare
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'Mette Nielsen, FaceOut - Haslev Frikirke'; 'Inger Flindt, Køge Adventkirke';
'Arne Sandbeck, Nykøbing Sj. Adventkirke'; 'Borghild Rasmussen, Ringsted
Adventkirke'; 'Hans Grønbech, Nyborg Adventkirke'; 'Flemming Nutzhorn,
Vejlefjordkirken'; 'Hans Kalvåg, Aalborg Adventkirke'; Albert Fletcher; Albert
Fletcher; and others…
Subject: Hi, a little more flesh upon the bones I
gave you… Suggestions re the present four year plus, plus, objectives of our church…
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Written
with a beginning on 5926[((*??*))] 01[1] 26 2030
The Seventh Day, the Creator’s own day of rest, and
The 8th day of 50 in the Reckoning of Omer towards the
Day of Sabbaths, the Biblical Pentecost,
The
26th day of month #1, 26 Abib,
in the 5926th[(??)]
year following the beginning recorded in Genesis 1
and in the 2030th year following the
beginning recorded in Luke 1:26-33,
[the 23rd day of the month per ancient
Rabbinical reckoning,
26
Nissan (month #1) in the 5774th
year) per more recent Jewish reckoning
(based upon a
decimal error in Hillel II’s directives causing a wandering of the
seasons!),
[the 25th day of Jumada Al-Thani (the 6th
month) of Year 1435 of Hijri (the Islamic
calendar,) and
[Saturday, the 6th day of the Pope’s week (as revised
in Sweden from 1973 A.D.,)
April
26 in the 2014th year
of Caesar Tiberius (per current Gregorian reckoning in Europe and
elsewhere,)
Cf.
Daniel 7:25…]
Shabbat
Shalom, Göran!
Thanks,
once again, for sharing, with me and with our local Adventist church at
Nyhyttan, of your own firsthand experiences while walking hand in hand with our
Redeemer!
The
results of your work in other parts of the world, as I have thus far perceived
it, gives me confidence in you and also hope for something similar while in
your present post at the administrative leadership here in Sweden…
-
But which Sweden, the one or the other, the living, or that of
the State? :=)
As
you said in your sermon, one is easily misunderstood, even distrusted, when
sharing of one’s own experiences in life, unless one has been able theretofore
to build a platform of solid trust.
Surely you have some time reflected upon the similar experiences of
our beloved pioneers within the Advent movement, as most every one of them were
being thrown out of each their own prior congregations, or have you not? The
one who is truly walking with God in the footsteps of our Savior is, not infrequently,
being blessed with ‘unbelievable’ experiences, that is, unbelievable so far as the listener is concerned. And,
as you surely know, every such walk is very much the result of one’s own individual
Bible studies…
Based
upon the above said, it is not a great step towards realizing the importance of
creating, within every forum of our beloved church, an atmosphere of ever more
mutual understanding and respect in re to each our unique, ‘unbelievable,’ seemingly
‘super natural,’ experiences and discoveries touching upon the realities that each
one of us may find in the Bible.
Unfortunately,
I find that there is a great need for a much better atmosphere and for much
better attitude so far as concerns each our unique
walk with God. Our various church communities, as I have come to experience
them, are very much in need of more mutual trust and respect so far as concerns
each our various discoveries within the Word of God. Indeed, I am convinced
that this is the key problem behind the lack of growth that we have long been
experiencing in the Nordic countries and in Sweden in particular.
For
example: On a number of occasions, when I have brought close friends of mine to
our local church at Nyhyttan, I have seen those same friends of mine soon
enough reject the idea of any further contact with our church. Why? Well, they have
found the attitudes they have met by teachers of the Bible study, and the
prevalent attitude, too narrow minded, too much based upon fixed traditional thinking.
Some friends of mine, who had a prior Catholic background, even told me that
their experience of our church was too much reminiscent of some of the worst of
their experiences within the Roman Catholic Church…
Yes,
I too am seeing much of the same problems. Serious deficiencies. Some more
serious than others. The reason that I still find much value in my continual
participation as one within my congregation is of course that I’ve been living with these things ever since I was a child.
I have learned how to deal with the situation. I have learned to accept it for
what it is. I focus upon the values I am seeing, while yet doing my best
towards contributing towards something ever better. After all, ours is a joint
walk destined ever upwards towards the realization of the Kingdom of God. Truly,
our social communion is ever so valuable, and so is the fact that within our
church at Nyhyttan I have the joy of experiencing a living, inviting, open
attitude from most everyone. Yes, even in spite of the various attempts,
throughout the years, that various “leaders” have made towards freezing me out,
and towards discrediting such experiences and such Bible discoveries of mine as
I have tried to share…
Accordingly,
and as I briefly shared with you following your sermon: I find it most crucial
for each and all of us to be intent upon working towards an ever more accepting
attitude between ourselves. We need to respect one another even where we have a
hard time making sense of, or agree with, one another’s points of view! We need
to learn to encourage one another in spite of our differences while
understanding that much of our differences is based upon each our different
backgrounds and each our different points of view. Most particularly so relative
to each our walk with God. We need to
encourage one another to study, to discover, and to share with one another
heretofore unknown, strange, unfamiliar, long forgotten, ‘unbelievable,’ and
previously undiscovered Biblical truths and ditto experiences…
To the extent that we may achieve a more
mutually accepting and mutually encouraging atmosphere amongst us, I am
convinced that soon enough we will be blessed with experiencing, not only a
growing membership, but very much more of true and genuine joy and harmony so
far as concerns our joint walk towards the Kingdom of God in the realm of the
here, now, and I…
You
asked me a specific question in church, and I gave you a brief response
including also an example of my experiences within the boundaries of our
greater church community… I have no doubt that, in consequence of the above
said, you may have considerable difficulty in accepting or agreeing with the
reality of mine that I exemplified. Even so, you may yet be willing to accept
that my experiences do build upon my own continual studies of the Bible over
many years, indeed, studies of mine comprising most of my time, most every day
the year around…
Accordingly,
and in consequence of you question, I hereby wish to provide for you an
opportunity to partake of the particular details of my experiences while
partaking in the ongoing dialogs of various SDA blogs. Experiences that I find characterized
too much by an outright censoring of such comments as represent true and
genuine Bible discoveries beyond that which is heretofore known or familiar.
That is, I find the prevalent atmosphere within said SDA blogs being quite
contrary to such a truly living walk with our Lord and Savior as can only
become reality by means of such individual Bible study as we generally and
openly profess to promote. Here is a link
where you will be able to partake of the particulars of quite a number of my
censured comments within blogs directly attached to the central activities within
our beloved church fellowship…
May
the Sabbath peace of God, our Creator and Redeemer, rest over each our family
and home,
Gunnar Smårs Jr©
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