Dear Thomas, many thanks for your post. I am mooved by the searching that is going on regarding true UNITY.IN CHRIST and nowhere else. After reading the question commes to me if one of the big hindrences to finding unity in Christ, if we dont DO things we know Christ asks of us. Would it be good if each one of us askes God earnestly to show us and make us aware of the things that hinder our prayer for unity? Christianity in general is so unchristian, that the testomony to Christ given by our very lives is a mockery of His death and resurrection. A few questions , and hopefully they do not apply to any of us: 1. Divorce 2. re-marriage 3. abortion 4 a good life while others hunger 5 serving in the army or earning our living by making things to kill others 6watching TV and moovies where jesus could not be present. 7Have we truly forgiven everybody everything so that God may also forgive us ? Please have a look at theese two websites and please read this article. Am I , are we ready to die for our faith in Jesus and God? From: Klaus Meier Sent: 18 September 1999 08:10 To: Klaus Meier www.WARisHELL.com www.CassieBernall.org < > -----Original Message----- Check out the Mirror feature on Cassie at http://www.ic24.net/mgn/THE_MIRROR/NEWS/P22S4.html Warm greetings to you . I hope this article will entice you to get the book and get all the help and challenge needed for life. Warm greetings Klaus Meier Theese two website will help you see what it is: www.WARisHELL.com www.CassieBernall.org Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:22:23 EDT From: David Virtue <DVirtue236@...> Subject: Mysterious Echoes of Gunshots - Terry Mattingly Mysterious echoes of gunshots By Terry Mattingly It's hard to read any of the sermons that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.=20 preached about death and heaven without hearing echoes of gunshots. "The minute you conquer the fear of death, at that moment you are free," he=20 said, in 1963. "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something=20 that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." Decades later, these words still inspire faith and courage, said social=20 activist Johann Christoph Arnold, who marched with King in the Civil Rights=20 Movement. That's why the patriarch of the nine Bruderhof communes in the=20 U.S., England and Australia included this quotation in his most recent book,=20 "Seeking Peace." This was the book that Cassie Bernall and other teen-agers at West Bowles=20 Community Church were supposed to have discussed on the evening of April=20 20th. After that tragic day at Columbine High School, Bernall's parents=20 showed Arnold her copy of "Seeking Peace," with its handwritten notes for th= e=20 study session that was never held. Cassie had boldly underlined King's thoughts on death. Did she hear echoes o= f=20 gunshots? "Why did those words speak to her at such a young age? It is such a great=20 mystery," said Arnold. "But I do know this. She had found something she was=20 willing to live for, and even to die for, and that made all the difference i= n=20 her life." Here is what Cassie wrote, in a 1998 note her parents discovered after her=20 death: "I try to stand up for my faith at school. =85 I will die for my God. = I=20 will die for my faith. It's the least I can do for Christ dying for me." Cassie Bernall was one of the Columbine students who was asked, at gunpoint,=20 "Do you believe in God?" Her story has been spread by news reports and chain= s=20 of Internet sites hailing her as a martyr, in the true sense of that ancient=20 title in Christendom. Now, her mother has written her own tribute, entitled "She Said Yes." Becaus= e=20 of the ties between Cassie, her church and Arnold's writings, Misty Bernall'= s=20 140-page memoir has been published by the Plough Publishing House, which is=20 linked to the tiny Bruderhof movement, with its commitment to pacifism,=20 simple living and the sanctity of life. In the wake of Littleton, many Americans - politicians, preachers and pundit= s=20 - keep arguing about the "larger issues" that supposedly led to the=20 bloodshed, notes Misty Bernall. She is convinced parents must focus on more=20 personal issues closer to home. "Why, when parents and lawmakers are calling for gun control and an end to T= V=20 violence, are our young crying out for relationships?", she asks. "Why, when=20 we offer them psychologists and counselors and experts on conflict=20 resolution, are they going to youth groups and looking for friends? Why, whe= n=20 everyone else is apportioning blame and constructing new defenses, are they=20 talking about a change of the heart?" Nevertheless, "She Said Yes" makes it clear that Cassie's parents repeatedly=20 had to say "no," as they pulled her away from peers involved in the occult.=20 Her mother reprints passages from letters in which Cassie and a friend=20 pondered suicide and murder. The Bernalls taped telephone calls, searched=20 their daughter's room, took evidence to the police and, finally, moved to=20 another neighborhood. Cassie raged against it all, until her life was change= d=20 during a church youth retreat. Brad and Misty Bernall refused to give up, noted Arnold, and made radical=20 changes in their own lives, as well as in the life of their daughter. All of=20 this took time, energy and sacrifice. Cassie's new life was rooted in weekly=20 patterns of fellowship, prayer, reading and service projects with her family=20 and new friends. They ate pizza and went skiing, but also helped leukemia=20 patients and built homes for the poor. Cassie traded vampires and "death=20 rock" for poetry and photography. "Cassie would never have said 'yes' in that final moment, unless she had sai= d=20 'yes' so many other times before that," said Arnold. "She had to say 'yes' t= o=20 many wonderful experiences in her new life, before she had the strength to=20 say the ultimate 'yes' when that moment came. We must not forget that." Terry Mattingly (www.tmatt.net) teaches at the Alexandria, Va., campus of=20 Regent University. He writes this weekly column for the Scripps Howard News=20 Service.