Mike Parsons
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Connecting Online
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What I have discovered is that generally God is at work with people more than we think. But a lot of them are quiet and silent because they do not want to get trolled online or abused by those who are still operating in the church system and other systems. I had to deal with quite a lot of that initially when we first started posting things that challenged views of God and the evangelical perspective. There were a number of people who really tried to change my thinking or challenge my perspectives, and who made accusations to me, which quite often I would totally accept. Yes, I am moving away from your orthodoxy, and going back to the original orthodoxy that Jesus promoted. So what I did not do was take offence or try to argue with them. Initially there were a few discussions, and I realised it does not get anywhere because they are simply not on the same page.
So a lot of people are out there but they are keeping their heads down, particularly in the US, because there is such a strong religious spirit operating that attacks and tries to undermine people who hold any opposing views, whether eschatological or spiritual: inclusionism, grace, all of these things. There was so much talk of greasy grace and all that sort of thing when people first started talking about the limitless grace of God, and they were disparaged and accused and all sorts of nasty things were put out there. So a lot of people keep quiet and just get on with it, because they do not want that type of exposure.
It is hard. God prepared me to be able to handle criticism and negativity without taking offence, and to be able to manage it in hopefully the right way. There were a number of people I had to block because they were not being respectful and were not respecting the boundaries we had set on our material. In the end I would just say, look, I am going to have to block you because you are not following the guidelines we have put out. But there have only been a few, not that many. I am sure there are lots of people out there who would oppose some of the beliefs I have or some of the things we have posted, but generally I do not see the negativity, and I do not want those people to see our material either, because I do not want to offend people if they are not ready to pursue something more open.
So I would encourage you to stay positive. Send out the blue lights, but also look at what practical things you can do to see where those connections could be made, and just see how God might bring about those connections. There are a lot more ways of doing it than when I started. Years ago it was like, I do not know anybody, I would not have known how to connect to anyone. But God wanted to connect people to me, and they did. People found ways of connecting. One of the first people who contacted me, when we first started putting out the blog posts, said, hey, I have got questions I would like to ask, and I think there are a few other people who might like to as well. Can I create a forum for you? I did not even know what a forum was. But I said, well, yes. He said, I will give you the admin, you can look after it once I have created it. He started the forum and asked what I would like it to be called. I said, Preparing for destiny, let us call it that. And within a short period of time, there were not many people, but there were ten, twelve, fifteen people who regularly posted things on the forum asking questions, opening the door for me to give answers and connect.
And then when God said, I want you to connect with people online in a more direct way rather than just answering questions, I used that as the base for starting, because I just posted to them: hey, I am looking to do an online mentoring session, just an online get-together. Who would be interested in that? And I think four people said yes. That is where I started. And then once we started posting YouTube videos, more and more people began to ask how they could connect, how they could get mentoring, how they could join these forums. And then it spiralled from there. God said, I want you to do it. I had no idea how to do it. So I said, well, I am willing. Let us see how it can happen. And God engineered it over a period of time. People would contact me saying, you came up on my YouTube feed as a suggestion, I looked at it, it is amazing. 
And then those connections get made. So if you have an online presence, it is obviously easier to make those connections, but we can use all the forums available that other people have got, to make connections with like-minded people who are looking in the same areas.
America is a big country and very spread out. If you think, optimistically, that there might be a hundred thousand people in the US who are operating or looking in this area, a hundred thousand spread over the size of the US would just be dotted around, and they would probably be more concentrated in areas of larger population. There are probably more in California and similar places than in a rural area, a big state, or a state that is mainly farmland. So it is not easy to make these connections, but it is far from impossible.
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