# Precious Letters from Our Readers Language: en Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2001, Number 4 Source pages: 38–40 Read article: Original PDF: 2001\-07\-remnant\.pdf [The Heartbeat of The Remnant, July/August 2001]() ![]() Dearest brethren in Christ, My name is Harry Antonopoulos and I am a resident of New Windsor, Maryland\. As I look back at a series of events that recently took place in my life I can’t but thank our Lord who always provides for us, by His abundant and loving care, His precious bread of life\. A few months ago a dear friend and brother in Christ gave me as a gift, a tape album by Zac Poonen titled, “The Fulfilled Christian Life”\. I was so blessed with this gift for it was an answer to my prayers\. I could write to you pages explaining the reasons why that gesture was such a blessing, perhaps at some other time\. In a nutshell, when there is a famine in the land, not that of food but of the Word of God, such a banquet as the one presented by the Holy Spirit through brother Zac becomes a major reason for joy and of highest gratitude toward our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who knows how to lead His sheep into green pastures indeed\! At this point is when the series of events mentioned earlier began\. One of the tapes, for one reason or another, was blank and therefore I thought I should call the telephone number found on the tape’s label to see if I could purchase a replacement tape\. The individual who answered my call was extremely kind, apologetic, and offered to replace the tape without any extra cost to me\. That was my first personal contact of any kind with Charity Christian Fellowship, which at this point I only new as Charity Gospel Tape Ministry, according to the tape’s label\. Not long after this, the tape arrived as promised, and I continued to listen to brother Zac, a tape a day, for sixteen days, and something in me was quickened by the Holy Spirit to pray for this dear brother, being fully convinced that hell notices the true treasure\-houses of God’s riches and does not miss any opportunity to come against them\. By the end of sixteen days I knew deep in my heart that, since it was permissible to let others hear these messages by duplicating the tapes, I was going to do this and to give them to my brothers and sisters in our small church\. The Lord was merciful to us and many hearts were changed and spirits were provoked by the Holy Spirit into personal revival, something for which I have been crying to the Lord for, for quite some time now\. We are a very small church of twenty that meet in our homes as each one avails it for God’s glory\. I am their pastor and servant in Christ and I have come to love them with such deep love that even the thought of one of them not being constantly on fire for the Lord and lose his or her first love makes me cry out for help unceasingly, which I know can only come from Him\. There is such a parched land out there that at times it can be easy to give into discouragement, especially when you feel alone in the fight\. But praise be to our God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who is always perfect in His time and wise in His ways to eagerly prove His faithfulness and love toward those that truly love Him and seek Him with all their heart\. Today, March 29th, I received your “Remnant” publication and I must also say, with great joy, that “the heartbeat of the remnant” is loud indeed\. It is so good to have the Spirit of the Lord bring into one’s path kindred spirits, who truly understand “the heart of a servant”\. What makes this even more wonderful is that you sent this publication to me without me asking for it or having any idea of its existence\. We thank our Lord Jesus Christ for you and your ministry and pray that some day we will be greatly blessed to meet some of you in person while we are still fighting the good fight, here in this life, and be encouraged as we find rest in the safe and strong hands of our Greast Shepherd\. I want so much to let my brethren know about you, something which will not wait till we all meet as a church, for I am going to call them, one by one, and tell them the good news of our brethren in Leola, PA\. Forgive this letter, filled with sincere yet child\-like expressions of the heart, from someone you don’t even know, but I trust that He who knows the hearts of all men will let you see, by His Spirit, a little of ours\. May our Lord Jesus Christ, who has chosen us before the foundations of the world to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him, strengthen your mind, heart and spirit by His precious presence, at all times\! *With gratitude and affection, always in His service, Your brother in Christ,* *Harry Antonopoulos* Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Our joy is rekindled every day as we receive His mercies anew every morning\. Our heartfelt thanks and gratitude for your ministry through provision of The Remnant and the uplifting godly articles therein\. They not only inspire and encourage us but also open up to us the scriptures in a new way as we seek to serve Him in spirit and in truth\. We would also like to thank you for publishing our letter in the March/April issue and our cry for fellowship\. We had to come before the Lord and repent of our complaint of feeling alone as He answered our cry in such an overwhelming manner\. We recieved many letters from Christian brothers and sisters who read The Remnant, and, in fact, we even had a visit from one young couple who, like us, thought they were the only plain church people in Australia\. They live some 550 miles away but we have managed to visit and fellowship twice already and continue to support and encourage each other through phone and e\-mail contact and have more visits planned\. God is so gracious\. We appreciate your invitation to your readers to contribute and we intend to do so as and when the Lord leads us for without His guidance and inspiration it would not be worth the paper it is written on\. Please keep us on your mailing list and know that both the copies are well used and read by a number of people\. One copy stays with us for use by our fellowship, friends, and others\. The second copy goes to our daughter and her family of 6 children most of whom read and devour it\. They search for any material they can find that awakens their desire to give their lives to Jesus\. May the Lord continue to pour out His blessings on you and all the staff and people who make this wonderful ministry such a powerful tool in spreading the Word\. P\.S\. When you do a book review could you please advise where it is available\. Most would not be available in Australia so a U\.S\.A\. distributor’s name and address would greatly assist\. Many thanks and prayers and blessings\. *Joseph & Carolynn van Loon Australia* Dear Charity Ministry, I would like to thank you all for your ministry to me and my family\. We have grown in the Lord with your help\. I am writing to inform you that at this time, I would like to cancel our subscription to The Remnant\. I have discovered that through the years I have developed a Charity mindset—“What would Charity say about this or that\.” I need some time now to renew my mind and to see where the Lord wants us to go and to see what Jesus says about what we should do\. I guess what I am trying to say is that we put ourselves under your ministry instead of under the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the head of the church\. We need to please the Lord and go where he wants us to go\. Thank\-you again for all you have done for us through the ministry\. *Your Brother in Christ* *We praise God for the wisdom of this Brother\. God forbid that any of us should replace Christ in any way\. He is God’s servant and He will lead him we are confident\. \-\-The editor* Hello, Thanks for the magazine I got today\. One thing I am concerned about\. Since The Heartbeat of The Remnant believes in following the Bible, they would be careful about the length of Jesus’ hair\. Also, I would like to know if The Remnant uses any specific Bible version\. *Thanks, Lydia Choo Ming Huay, Singapore* *Dear Sister in Christ,* *Thank you for the challenge about the length of hair in the artwork\. We are limited in the amount of selections we have in this area\. We will try to do better\. If you have any suggestions on where we could get more scriptural pictures please inform us\.* *We would also like to briefly answer your question about Bible versions\. We use the King James Version of the Bible\. That is by conviction, not by preference\. Occasionally a verse may slip by that is not, because we draw from a lot of different authors, but we try to find them and change them\. Some of the short word essays have many Bible verses in them with a few other words added\. We are not calling them the Bible\. They are more like some of the early Christian writings were; full of verses mixed with other words\. May God make our vocabularies like that: full of the Bible, mixed with other words\.* *We use the King James Version because it is the best translation\. I have personally studied some of the other translations, and I am not happy with the many changes that have been made\. There are many very important portions of scripture that have been deleted, with the explanation that better ancient texts have been found\. I feel this is a terrible error\. Many of the major doctrines of our faith have been watered down\.* *The King James Bible was translated from the Received Text, which is a compilation of a few thousand fragments that agree with each other\. These fragments that agree have been preserved by God for his people down through the centuries\. Several books have been written on the debate about which Bible we should use\. My concern for all the translations is also guided by my love for our children\. Many of them do not have a Bible\. One man quotes from the ASV, another from the NIV, another from Phillips translation\. Soon our children will not know “Thus saith the Lord,” but instead, “thus saith my version\.” \-\-The editor*