DRAFT ONE – NOT FINISHED
This may be the last time I write anything on Thomas. Most of it has to do with the fact that I am not as interested in his doings anymore. I have too many other things to do. The amount of energy that I could spend writing other things might actually get me closer to finishing a novel, or at least a set of stories. I hope to be married this year. There’s the whole teaching ministry at my church that I want to work on as well. Broadening a bit, there’s always Jazz on the Green, Shakespeare, and a host of other things going on. In short, there’s more to life than ‘a man and his website'(tm) and I want to enjoy my life outside of my present and/or former church affiliation. Another main reason to avoid the topic is that it is becoming too painful to watch. It’s an unraveling and it is not pretty. No matter how much I may not like the things a person does, I don’t delight in the disintegration of a person’s mind or soul. I used to be scared of this man an his influence. Now, I am trying to get off the sick rollercoaster of his destruction. So, this may be the last one for me on this topic.

Folks have been talking to Thomas for a while. I know because his writings are almost always in defense. Many of them quote the writings of Douglas Jacoby or Gordon Ferguson. Recently, he has been responding to messages that we aren’t seeing. Otherwise, he wouldn’t say:

It has become necessary to write one more essay in the series, The Mandate of God for World Evangelism.

or

It is very concerning when leaders are in error because they do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

I expected the latter message to come eventually, but the former was a bit surprising. The need to write chapter 9 of this saga had to be prompted by something, and I believe it is contact with other so-called leaders of the ICC. He mentioned meeting with folks from Chicago in a sermon on July 4. I also know that Sam Laing has spoken to him as well. I’m sure that Al Baird and Roger Lamb have spoken to him as well, but outside of that would be a guess. I feel like he is responding to things said to him by these and other folks. He has already stated that he feels betrayed by the former WSLs, and I imagine he is now feeling betrayed by those he considered friends once upon a time.

I can tell you from personal experience that being left alone by those you considered friends is like having a frayed sweater. It erodes slowly at first, but then falls apart in large pieces. Something that is not pretty is going on, because he is now grasping for things. Consider this statement:

This indirectly was Jesus’ explicit command to the faithful eleven, “Go to all the nations and baptize them!” Inferred, the apostles were to accomplish this task through the multiplication of disciples in their lifetime.

Indirectly explicitly commanded by an inference.