ABOUT “SALTSISTER”
SaltSister began during the throes of a real life question: “What if God can best be known outside the margins of all that is called ‘church’?” I probed everything in Christian thinking, to the delight of some and to the offense of others. Along the way, I touched some “edgy” things that I wouldn’t handle again. Occasionally, I was even hoodwinked by fellow ”seekers” outside-the-camp. It was probably part of the price for seeking the way that the Church had lost long ago.
SaltSister ran for four years before I understood its ultimate purpose myself. I knew that part of it was for me, but part of it was always for others. Although SaltSister originally questioned whether God was best known outside the margins, the real question was probably more like, “How can I trust the reality of God’s speaking when I feel compelled to remain ‘under authority’ like a forgotten and miserable orphan in this thing called ‘the Church’?”
In hindsight, SaltSister never said anything completely original. Everything that can be said has been said somewhere on earth. SaltSister merely dusted off things long forgotten and misplaced by the Church–not so unlike the day when Hilkiah the high priest found the book of the Law in the days of Josiah. (“My, did we misplace that somewhere?”) The Church had clouded or even denied the authority of some of the Lord’s most important assurance on matters of guidance:
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. (1 John 2:27)
The organized Church (we won’t rehash the temporal history here) maintained conformity to group-think by proliferating fears of “getting off” when it should have been teaching how to seek the Lord and how to be sure of His leading. Jesus taught, “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.” (John 14:18) For too long, we have been without that comfort.
This brings me to SaltSister’s real purpose. Its main beneficiaries are those who are beginning to move under the direction of their Lord and need confidence in the fact. SaltSister is an echo of what they have been sensing and a second witness that what they are hearing in spirit is real.
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