I Am Sorry, Church - Let’s Do It Better
Dear friends,
I have just sent out this newsletter and felt that I also needed to post it for everyone to read.
This is the fruit and result of the 412 days I spent in jail.
Thank you for reading this.
God bless you!
Torben Sondergaard
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(Newsletter)
I Am Sorry, Church - Let’s Do It Better
Dear Friends,
I want to use this newsletter to apologize to the church and reach out to everyone in The Last Reformation network. We need to change and do things better.
For a long time, God has been working in my heart regarding the church. This began even before my time in jail, where He revealed to me that a shift was coming and that we needed to work more closely with the church.
For that to happen, something significant needed to change in my heart and my attitude toward the church, its pastors, and leaders. That was exactly why God allowed me to go to jail. (see more on www.TorbenSondergaard.com ) While there, God used different situations to truly break and humble me, and I received a strong prophetic word that I needed to be broken during this season (jail) to prepare for what was coming next. The person I was then was not enough for what God needed from me in the next season. I share more about that in the video below.
After jail, God sent us to Mexico, where we didn’t know many people, and few were aware of my past and my time in jail. This gave us a chance to live out the transformation that had happened in our hearts. We arrived with a new attitude and worked closely with local pastors and their churches, overcoming past hurt, frustration, and bitterness. The results have been amazing, and we’ve seen beautiful transformations in many churches and formed many new friendships.
This is a video featuring two of the pastors there:
A new move of God is transforming pastors and their churches. Bring this to your city!
See the school we have down there:
Join the Luke 10 School in Mexico!
First Public Meeting
Last weekend, I held my first public meeting in Europe in seven years, and it was also my first public meeting after jail where I shared about this journey. In Mexico, I hadn’t shared my story because people there didn’t know me from before, and it was difficult for them to relate to a Danish guy who had been in jail in America. However, during this meeting last week in Norway, I finally shared my story and offered a public apology to the church for my past attitudes. This came from my heart and included a lot of crying; it was a humbling moment.
I expressed how difficult it has been to work with the church because of past hurts and how this bitter root has sadly been spread from me to others, which I also ask forgiveness for.
The feedback from this meeting in Norway, along with several pastor and leader meetings, was incredible. It led to many new relationships with pastors, leaders, and churches, bringing even more healing to us. I felt I needed to share this with all of you.
I encourage you to watch the video linked here, where I provide a short introduction to what people will see.
I Am Sorry, Church: A Personal Apology and a Call to Unite for Transformation — Torben Sondergaard
Please take the time to watch this. I hope you receive my apologies. Please share this video with your pastors and the churches out there. I also ask everyone in the TLR movement to watch this, and I seek forgiveness if I have brought any hurt or bitterness toward the church to you. May you also examine your hearts, and I pray this will not only be a new beginning for me but for the whole movement.
Let’s strive to do better and see a reformation in the body of Christ. We need to work together with pastors and leaders, not against them.
So, pastors and leaders, church, please forgive me, and I promise I will do better.
Europe
The next weeks I will be holding meetings in the Netherlands, the UK, and Austria.
Netherlands May 9 - May 11
UK London May 16 – May 18
Vienna Austria May 23 - 24
If you’re a pastor or leader, we’d love for you to be part of a special gathering where we can sit down and discuss how we can work together for the sake of God’s kingdom.
You can find links to the different events on www.TLRmap.com. If you, as a pastor or leader, would like to participate in the sit-down gathering with me, please send an email to mail@thelastreformation.com for more information.
Kingdom School
I also want to share the next teaching for the Kingdom School, which is now out. This beautiful lesson looks at Jesus as King, the Son of David, and what that means for us today. Sadly, we have often only viewed Him as the Savior and not as the King. Let this lesson bless you!
King Jesus and His Kingdom: The Return of the King / Kingdom School - Lesson 10
Thank you for your love and support. Thank you for listening to my message and for receiving my apology.
God bless you all!