The Day My Ministry Ended

My near 20-year ministry at Sea Point Evangelical Congregational Church ended through severe threats. This is how it happened. I received this invitation via e-mail (on the right), to a meeting in a boardroom. It did not raise my suspicions. An attorney told me she had a message for me. Who from? I asked. “I cannot reveal their names,” she said. Then the message: “In the warm interests of your physical well-being and safety, do not enter the pulpit, not even with armed protection, as you have had”. She slipped me a list of typewritten demands. I should sign a secret confession to crimes, to be “locked away and hidden”, or more than a million rands in retirement benefits would be lost: “no money, no deal”. Everyone would be “absolved of everything”, and I would be silent about this day. We each wrote up a memo of that meeting in her boardroom, for each other's reference. I never saw her memo again. But I did one sound thing that fateful day. Via e-mail, I filed my memo with her, together with the demands. She did one foolish thing. She replied. OBSERVATION: I understand that these things may come as a shock to some. Life is not all that it seems. (See the following post Testimony Of A Witness).