Posted by Cornelius Hamelberg (213.114.132.34) on May 15, 2005 at 16:16:47:
In Reply to: MS. BLYDEN, IF YOU CANNOT STAND THE HEAT OF THE KITCHEN, GET OUT ! ! ! posted by Alex Mansaray , New Jersey on May 15, 2005 at 07:55:02:
Now I’m going to be very kind to you and give you brotherly advice. It’s brother to brother. One brother to another.
Leave Sylvia alone.
She is doing fine.
Who are you to start preaching about leadership? Since when did you become a leader or even a high school coach?
Sylvia has every right to express her disgust or disagreement with me, you Kabs Kanu or any of you.
That is what is brave, honest, courageous democratic and leadership about her. Whilst Mr Kanu has been too familiar and taking her affection and tolerance for granted. He should go , down upon his knees and - not to pray to Sylvia's God , but to beg her pardon that would prove his humility and disprove his unwanted arrogance that is not befitting a man of the cloth and a pastor of large flock.
Your own untamed unsolicited preaching and genuflecting at Rev Kanu's alter of overestimated self esteem - Paul would call it pride and not humility - watch out that you don't fall with him - because pride as my Mama used to tell me goes before a fall and you know better than I do what causes gluttony and what the effects are, don't you?
Keep on time "running around New Jersey to help people here and there, to attend this function, that function , in short to help solve the problems" but don't think that you can sit on your self appointed high horse and think that you are talking down to Sylvia. Admire her, that's alright, she's more human than any lady I have met on this forum, I knew her father and he was the foremost of all of us and by the grace of God he and his wife became one flesh and produced a daughter that shares their courageous qualities.
You say "But the way I see you doing things, you do not have leadership qualities as Kabs Kanu tells us in the office." just see how you betray your high ideals by putting so much weight on what that weightless mosquito of a Rev says to you , he is not worth taking with a pinch of salt. Is that the way to talk about people? Is that all he can say about Sylvia, is that all he can see? His vocabulary and choice of words have been limited to what Christ and Paul would definitely disapprove of if they were present to hear him say what he has been saying to you, but thinking that God cannot hear him he lives in the illusion of belittling others to promote his own greatness forgetting that the lowly mosquito was created before him. SO MR Mansaray, forget what the Rev Kanu tells you in his office. he is only boasting before Christ and when you confront him with my words, my reactions, he will be the first to confess that he has crossed the permissible limits of arrogance: let him confess his own arrogance and perfections and leave out Sylvia’s human defects. let him pray for his sister that the Almighty conceal her defects and correct her errors, in secret and not boast of his won relative perfection so openly and unashamedly to you in his little office that the Lord has granted him for a little while , so that he will show charity and love to even those who should despise and curse him.
Tell him not to attempt to bully our sister or I will put him in his place with the words he preaches to other when he himself does not follow them
His human relations are poor. I can but will not substantiate that although there is written evidence that issued from his pen.
He has abused people unjustly and there is evidence of this from his unruly pen.
He has insult and unjustly so - unlike Christ he opened his mouth and insulted not only once but many times and was forgiven.
He has not only deleted other opinions but has been unwilling to listen to sound sense, at times , and I grant that this is a very human Rev Shepherd behaving like this to his flock.
Needless to say as editor general and a man of political opinions in this sinful world he is not interested in rendering to Caesar but would like to create and endorse a Caesar of his liking as well as the Kingdom of heaven which he tells us is within ( or amongst us)
Needles to say he loves to take control.
This is my advice for you. I won't go on with the rest of your accusations on behalf of your idol Kabs- because you cannot serve two maters and you must chose between Kabs as an authority and God who is my Redeemer. Which do you chose?
Make such a choice that you do not hop from the frying pan, ( like a hot frog) straight into the fire. Yes as Kabs the Rev would say, the everlasting fire specially prepared your those who make all these accusations which they recognise in themselves and instead of plucking the garbage in their own eyes, want to pluck the mote from others’ eyes ..
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT OF THE KITCHEN, GET OUT, but please return - you are not too good to repent and return to your real stature in the eyes of your Redeemer.
Both you and the Rev Kabbs Kanu could start here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0385477848/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-9487080-9280730#reader-link
And
http://216.239.57.104/search?hl=en&q=Desmond+Tutu+%22God+has+a+dream%22&btnG=Google+Search
And don’t tell me that I carrying hot coals to Newcastle, because that is neither here nor there, and I’m sincere.