First Meetings
"They made it about you."
"They made it about you" was a comment declared when discussing Sound Doctrine Church. "They," enemies of the cross, have intertwined Sound Doctrine Church with the name Timothy Williams to the point they cannot be separated.
The whole gospel, the crucified life, a holy life, is where self-centeredness has or is being put to death by the power of God. Thus, one would rather discuss anything else but oneself. However, one is left with no choice but to discuss "me" because, "They made it about you."
The following is from the foreword of the book Eau de Cult by Timothy Williams and describes what it is like to encounter Timothy Williams or Sound Doctrine Church. Which, because of persecution by prosecution, was run out of the City of Enumclaw in Washington State. Short of it, Sound Doctrine Church no longer meets.
Naturally, not everyone likes meeting Timothy Williams, and those who do not remain faithful to Jesus, in anger2 of their failures, have little positive to say.3
There also is the general dislike from those who resent the gospel or Good News of the whole gospel. Indeed, by no fault of Timothy Williams, to one he smells like death, the other life.
To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? (2 Corinthians 2:16)
This foreword is for normal, reasonable individuals, believer or not. For those who have ears that can hear to consider what is being declared.1
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Eau de Cult foreword with intro
Jacob: The foreword you’re about to hear is Malcolm Fraser’s testimony as to what it was like to encounter Sound Doctrine Church. I can testify that many, many individuals experienced the same truth and love when encountering Timothy and his now-deceased wife. “Truth and love are the two signs,” Jesus said, “demonstrates to the world who is of God and who is not.” For more information, visit www.consider.info.
Malcolm Fraser: For most of my adult life, I considered myself a Christian. However, I was a distinctly odorless kind of Christian. I didn’t provoke a strong reaction from anyone. People didn’t hate me as Jesus said they would. At best, they found me mildly irritating at times. Nor did they really fall in love with me. For the most part, they thought I was a nice guy or a good friend. I was like a piece of rather uninteresting furniture, solid, reliable, functional, good to have around if you wanted something comfortable to sit on, but nothing to really get excited about. During the course of eight years, I became a member of several different churches and denominations. I started out in a Pentecostal church, moved to an independent fellowship, then ended up in a Baptist church, and visited a lot of others along the way.
All the people seemed very friendly and loving, and there was always a nice, comfortable atmosphere. I even went to Bible College for a few years and managed to acquire some theological qualifications. I ended up with a full-time job at a college working with their computer systems. I didn’t really care much for theology. I just wanted to find a body of believers who truly loved God enough to obey His word. What I actually found were Christians whose idea of love was obviously designed to be manageable and comfortable, to be acceptable and appealing to anyone and everyone. It didn’t smell of Christ. It was bland and odorless, just like me. So, despite being totally unsatisfied, I fit right in, like a good piece of furniture.
At church, I usually became quickly involved in worship leading, in youth Bible studies, and later in adult Bible studies. Oh, I would often challenge the pastor or leadership about issues within the fellowship that I saw as being contrary to the Bible, but I was reasonable enough about it to be easily ignored. Of course, even a non-Christian can read the Bible and point out areas where the Scriptures and the church don’t match up, but I considered myself quite a fundamentalist and followed all the discernment ministries in standing firm against all the errors in the church. During this time, I met many people who seemed to have love and passion, yet it wasn’t the love of God or the power of the Holy Spirit, and I even encountered some people who were rude and offensive, but it wasn’t the offense of the cross.
I had yet to meet any Christians who had that missing something, the fragrance of Jesus Christ. Then I heard that a pastor from America was flying over to Scotland to meet with one of my friends. I didn’t really know anything about this pastor. I had, however, listened to two of his sermon tapes and found them to be very biblical and very challenging. So, as I was trying to get out more at the time, I thought it would be worth going around to meet him. That’s when I first met Tim. There was obviously something very different about them. It’s pointless trying to explain or describe what it was, other than to say that they were far from odorless. They had a unique fragrance, a smell of holiness, of humility, of a crucified life, and above all the love of God. Within a month of discovering this fragrance and starting to fellowship with others at Sound Doctrine Church from halfway around the world, it became clear that I would have to leave my local church and my job at the Bible College.
People around me started to smell death and didn’t want to be associated with it. I and the Sound Doctrine Church became the subject of all kinds of nasty rumors and gossip as people tried to justify themselves rather than seeking out the truth. Phrases like bad exegesis, judgmental, bad hermeneutics, and cultic were used often. Some people were even petty enough to always refer to Sound Doctrine as a group because they refused to acknowledge it as a real church. People were apparently concerned about my involvement with these people, but they preferred to be concerned from a distance, where things looked blurred enough to be mistaken for whatever their sin and fear conjured up.
Such doubts and accusations seemed utterly ridiculous to me, and I have to admit to being very surprised and disappointed at the reaction of many people I had thought of as brothers and sisters. However, while most others were busy getting a bad feeling about Sound Doctrine, I was rejoicing and struggling with finding a fellowship that not only preached the truth from the Word of God, but actually lived it out by the power of the Holy Spirit. The struggle came because I had to begin allowing God to crucify my flesh. For a start, I had to humble myself as God revealed the reason, I was odorless and didn’t smell like Christ. It was because I had never really been a Christian. This came as quite a shock to me in my self-righteousness and self-confidence, but it was blatantly obvious as soon as I allowed the light of God to illuminate my life.
Rather than cause me to turn hostile and defensive, though, by the grace of God, it led me to an even greater desire to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ. So, I decided to take the step of faith and visit the church, and almost literally leaving everything, I went. Almost as soon as I arrived, I knew that I didn’t want to leave. The love of God was evident in the fellowship right from the start. The smell of it was something very different from anything I had experienced before, not just in what was spoken and taught, certainly not in following any legalistic rules, but in a real and active obedience to God by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is a love that simply smells of Jesus Christ, not a dead Jesus on the pages of a book, not a man-made Jesus packed neatly into a box, not a comfortable, controllable, entertaining Jesus who just smiles and nods at our sin, but a living Jesus who calls us to lose our very lives for Him, that He might live in us.
Since I have been part of Sound Doctrine Church, I have gone through many hard struggles as the cross has come to bear on my life, and many times I have wept and wrestled with God and with my sin as He seeks to crucify my flesh. I trust that I will do so many more times in the future. But more than that, I have wept tears of joy of what God, in His grace, has allowed me to be part of. I can only pray that by reading this book, God will be able to give you a small sample of the fragrance that comes from His incomparable love as it is worked out in the fellowship of His people. I pray that it will smell like life to you, for that is what I can testify it truly is.
Sound Doctrine Church is no longer meeting.
For more information, visit www.consider.info.
Hate Crime Washington State Recap
The following podcast centers around the legal trial of Washington State versus Malcolm Fraser. Mr. Fraser was charged with an impossible-to-commit sexual assault crime by Washington State Prosecutors. The fact is even the manipulated accuser’s testimony proves the crime could not have taken place.
The Prosecutor and hate-crime agitators’ goal was never to go to trial but to destroy a Christian Church by the weight of the accusations alone. A tactic so common that it is in the news today, every day, at every level within the court system.
The following discussion is taken from actual court transcripts, video recordings and investigations.
Many of those speaking on the podcast personally went through the mud-pit, unprofessional and illegal prosecution using a hate crime as the foundation.
This concise recap is backed up by overwhelming evidence that the City of Enumclaw Police, Washington State Prosecutors and Judges, for nefarious reasons, corrupted every aspect of the non-existent investigation and unconstitutional court proceedings.
Such corruption has become so common that all but unreasonable individuals know it is standard operating procedure within the legal system. In short, the Sound Doctrine Christian church was a victim of what is now termed lawfare.
The year 2010 saw the compilation of a hate crime against Sound Doctrine Church by City of Enumclaw Policeman Grant McCall and his co-conspirators.
Seattle Washington State Prosecutors of King County used an innocent man to attack Timothy Williams or Sound Doctrine Church. Timothy Williams was not charged with any crime. Thus, the State of Washington proxy-prosecuted Malcolm Fraser to destroy Timothy Williams. More than ample evidence can be found at www.consider.info.
The podcast and history of these events are important to prepare true disciples of Jesus for what could soon take place in their lives or in the lives of their children.
The proxy-prosecution of Malcolm Fraser by Washington State Judges was a perfect storm of persecution by prosecution.
All would do well to prayerfully prepare themselves and their children for what sin-stained dark soul Judges, Prosecutors, and Police will gladly, happily do.
We on The Consider Podcast pray that God may grant them repentance because it is, as the scriptures declare, a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God.
As Jesus encouraged us when He walked the earth, the Holy Spirit does admonish the Christian today
If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear. Mark 4:23
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