Why am I so angry?

Why am I so angry? If you want to call it anger, it's because...

Who are these people? Who are these people who call themselves Christians and mock Christians who have experienced regeneration by the Word and the Spirit. Who are these people who call themselves Christians and treat Christians who are strangers in this world the *exact same way* the world treats us. Who are these people who mock the received Word of God?

How did it get this way?

How did it get to this point where all these churchians are so God damned *shallow* - in *exactly the same way* the world is shallow?

None of these people have been broken. None of them have learned the difference between fearing man and fearing God only. They all share and revere the *exact same values* as the world.

None of them have any real development. They can't even see how people fall into obvious categories of being intellectually oriented, emotionally oriented, or physically oriented, and that *you have to develop in the two of those areas you aren't naturally inclined towards.*

Protestants are book and doctrine oriented (i.e. intellectually oriented). Get it? Kind of obvious, right? Is that *all* there is to the faith? Of course not.

Roman Catholics, as a general type, are more crowd types, less interested in doctrine, more interested in emotion and standing in crowds to get a glimpse of a man they call Pope.

Eastern Orthodox are more sense and physically oriented. More inclined towards physical practices. RCs too need their senses to be satisfied with their incense and bells.
There are all three types in all three branches, but each branch holds a center-of-gravity of one of each.

The devil takes his position, centrally, in the Roman Catholic domain because it is there - emotion - that is the gateway to higher development. Intellect can't take one very far, spiritually. Refined emotion, transformed emotion does. Do we have to become Roman Catholic? Of course not. But do we have to remain shallow, i.e. the typically Reformed 'professor', the academic, embarrassed by and always mocking (when sweaters mock, look out) anything outside their interests and anything above their current level of understanding or beyond their experience? (And lest I be misunderstood, RCs are as shallow as the average Protestant is and as the average Eastern Orthodox adherent is.)

A prophet, priest, and king - what all real Christians are - has to develop in a complete way. As a Christian if you are a soldier you also need to be a scholar and a musician, as much as that goes against the grain of who you are. As a Christian if you are an intellectual you have to be an athlete and an artist, as much as that goes against the grain of who you are. As a Christian if you are an emotional creative type you also need to dig some ditches and force yourself to engage the written word.

Allowing yourself to be broken by the world helps as well. Having your vanity, worldly pride, and rebellious self-will stepped on, knifed, spit on, stomped on, shown contempt, putting yourself in the position of vulnerability where that can happen, just by being what a Christian has to be, a stranger in this world, in this world, not of this world, fearing God only and not man. Do that and the world will show its contempt for you. Can you take it? Do you value taking it? Or do you value protecting your old nature and its needs and demands?

Who are you people who call yourselves Christians? I don't recognize followers of Christ among you. I don't see people experiencing what Jesus experienced. I see people on the delivering end not the receiving end.