Letters From Elder T.

“Greetings! 

We have stepped into a new year. This is not the time for making resolutions. It is the time to make our calling and election sure. This sobering, encouraging message from a gentleman named Anthony Earl moved my spirit so much, that I must share it with you: 

“I have been given to deep and sobering reflection. How many have truly paused long enough to discern the absurd cycles of inauthentic living and the chaos such deception continually produces? We have normalized what Heaven never endorsed and called survival what God intended to be transformation. As we stand at the threshold of the coming year, the Spirit is issuing a summons. It is time to roll up our sleeves and dismantle the tolerated disorder we have both endured and perpetuated. This is not a call to reform appearances but to reconstitute identity. The Church must not improve its image. The Church must recover its essence. Becoming requires death. Authenticity is costly, and virtue cannot coexist with pretense. Our virtue has been buried beneath performance, muted by compromise, and exchanged for the applause of those who traffic in flattery and self-preserving alliances. Yet our Lord made it unmistakably clear: virtue is the conduit of divine power. When the woman touched Him, virtue flowed. Power was released because authenticity made contact with Heaven’s supply. We must therefore reclaim our inherent virtue and relearn how to steward and release it apostolically. Not power for spectacle, but power for restoration. Power that heals regions, reforms systems, and fulfills the “greater works” Christ declared would accompany a people rightly aligned. Worship must ascend beyond skillful sound and emotional stimulation. Heaven is not moved by excellence alone. True worship provokes repentance, confronts misalignment, and births transformation. It summons representation, not performance. It establishes a movement that reshapes spiritual posture, social conscience, and economic responsibility. The Spirit is calling for a Church that carries weight again. Not noise. Not notoriety. But glory.”   Selah! (Pause and calmly think of that.) Welcome to 2026!’