Hey John,

Been trying to reach you the last month or so; looks like you’re transitioning in both your website, blog, and new e-mail (johscotland.org didn’t work). Blogged you awhile ago; now it looks like you need a partner password to get further than the home page.

Ron Metcalf here: I know you meet a lot of people: you, Geri Hart, & I went to New Tribes headquarters in Sanford, Fl. a few years back; that should remind you. If someone else is monitoring these e-mails, please pass it on to John.

John Crowder and Benjamin Dunn are going to be in Charlotte this weekend and in Lakeland, Fl. in a couple of weeks. I was concerned with the ‘shootin up the ghost’ stuff in the latter part of the Lakeland Outpouring July ’08; but my children told me that it was just an extension of what you believed, and you hadn’t said ‘no’ about it (even some rumors that you had endorsed it).

3 1/2 years later, this seems to have caused a major split in the ‘camp’; in my watchman duties, specifically Lou Engle vs. Bill Johnson, for example (holiness v. drunkenness); but also in what has happened with my children (Dylan is doing much better overall, but still hasn’t come back to Jesus, which is the main problem). Jeremy, my younger son, has drifted into a Charles Finney legalism; Jessica, my third child, got pregnant, though we did convince her to marry; now we have our first beautiful granddaughter, but Jesi Lynn is still torn between her duties as a mom and the glamour of the ‘greater drunkenness’ that she feels she was supposed to be part of. My youngest, Melissa, stayed with John Crowder’s assistant pastor’s home with a couple of her friends awhile in California, before moving back to Fla. a half-year ago.

So now my children are part of a fairly large group of friends who are connected to ‘the drunken glory’ but also to the ever-more strict rules of Int’l. House of Prayer, KC, with the Forerunner School demanding more and more service for internship, more holiness, more discipline, more loyalty to leadership. Lou and Mike Bickle are actively partnering with YWAM now, that Jeremy went to Ghana on a missions trip latter ’08; so, again, there is this military-school theology vs. out-of-control freedom-in-the-Spirit vying for my children’s attachment at the same time. Jessica has been hurt the most by this schizophrenia in the Church, besides her older brother’s schizophrenia (Dylan).

You have had a couple of years to sort this out and give me your opinion on this, since you are now an elder statesman of the Toronto Renewal. I promise I won’t republish anything you say: but I need your thoughts about this quickly.

In Jesus’ love and name, Ron David Metcalf

Have a wonderful New Year
john

was thinking of you & jean, wanted to wish you a merry Christmas.

like your new format. coming to charlotte area next year? we live @ 3 hr. away.
still think about joe & wendy a lot; hope they’re back together.
didn’t see you at the fla. outpouring, though looked for you in the crowd. God isn’t finished with roy field’s ministry, of course; “only just begun”.

i recently started a couple of blogs on michael brown’s voice of revolution website; the Messianic Message is still forming. looks like your itenerary’ fairly open right now. i’m praying for a large Amos 9:11 offensive in coordination with all our election hooplah. could really use a master of ceremonies (you). pray about it.

in Him, ron m.

Thanks,

Tom

john