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Way Corps vs. Marine Corps OK - the original thought or idea was marketed to be something like "we see these highly trained people with life and death commitment that will give their life for their country, what about people doing the same thing for God?" And many of us flocked to the idea. We wanted to have that commitment to God. We believed what these leaders were telling us. We obeyed what they said, we sacrificed what they said, we changed what they said, we moved when they said, and we did it all largely on a volunteer basis. And then you find yourself years down the road and you wonder how you got there. Your family has long been left behind. Your friends are only people in similar responsibilities because you can't really be friends with people and minister to them - they lose respect. Your career you've never focused on. Your education you forsook to do this thing that didn't even give you a transcript that you can use if you want to get educated later. I've heard plenty of people / Corps say I gave the best years of my life to the Way ministry, now I have nothing. The Way ministry has no loyalty to them. It will discard them in an instant. Geez I know people who have been dropped, discarded, then hung around begging for scraps, and have gone back through the program again - 8 years instead of 4 - all to have their status back to "active". What do they have to show for it? A d@mn piece of paper that I can print up for $1.39 at a print shop? They seem like lemmings, that will run right off a cliff if led in that direction and others are going there. If it actually stood for something that might be different. But you see these people, they've done this for 20, 30, 40 years and the fruit they produce in their lives is just putrid. You see Jesus' teachings about leaders being servants and then you see these clowns arranging everyone else around them and their convenience, using people up and spitting them out, demanding absolutely everything and giving little or nothing to them. You see politics like you scarcely do in the world, even in a bad economy. You see lies, and more lies. You see people selling their soul for a piece of bread. You see people whose greatest excitement in life is "how close" their relationship is to the top doggette. God it just all makes me want to throw up for days. Worse than food poisoning. And these false ministers I know makes God's stomach just as sick. Saying they are speaking for God and feeding their own belly with lust for power and position. The Marines is just a whole different category. The military is a career, a way up and out, a way to obtain money for education if you don't have it. People know signing up that fighting for your country you have to deploy. They do it, they move, but they also have a career. They can serve their country for 20 years, retire, then have a second career with 2 incomes. Basic training - what 13 weeks? Then you go to a different training? Couple of schools - jump school, ammo, mechanics, computers, whatever. Try putting "The Way" on a resume. Watch the puzzling looks ensue. Why did you move so much? Do you have a criminal record? So you worked in the kitchen for years? Did you go to culinary school? No? Computer experience with latest software? No? You used Word Pefect? Is that still around? You were a "manager"? What did you "manage"? I mean it just takes so much work to translate any of that BS into something that is "real". I mean, no wonder there's splinter groups. You kick a bunch of these guys out and what are they going to do? Move down the road, use their influence with the people they've built a relationship with by not hiding out in an office, and try to keep working as a minister. Record a couple classes on video. Start a newsletter, travel to visit people. "Ordain" other people so they feel important and are committed to help you further your ends. Do you think God needs all that? He doesn't need money - He's God. He doesn't need you to bring Him lunch. He just wants your love, your fellowship, your allegiance. Talk to Him. All this other BS is just like the Tower of Babel. People scurrying around like little ants building up a tower to see if they by their designs can reach up to God. "But people are blessed in my tower I've built. But see how much higher they are than the other humans around?" Eventually that reasoning will lead to "let's start a war". The Marine Corps. It's a career, it's a lifestyle. It's an attitude. Semper Fi - oorah. It's tough. It is what it is, and doesn't bill to be anything different. The Way Corps? It's a frickin' house of cards, man. It's built upon hype, a lie, an image in a mind, a plastic green marble colored nametag that only you are allowed to wear at certain events. An assignment letter every year. And a bunch of bondage. Be willing to change anything and everything about yourself for the privilege to "minister to God's people". Or rather follow someone who doesn't deserve to be followed, and foster co-dependents all across the planet. God doesn't want that. That's not Jesus Christ, and no man can lay a genuine foundation except it be upon Jesus Christ.

I thougth some of you might enjoy this article: Click Here It is pretty short and simple to read. In part, it says: "Our sages tell us that Torah can be interpreted in four different general ways: peshat, remez, drush and sod. . . . . Within these four methods of understanding Torah, there exist countless possible avenues of understanding"