Aiiight…. So here it is… This is something that I have been battling with for a long time and as I was reading the Word today (Ephesians 5) I just felt that there was something I needed to do… Some “unfinished business”, you might say… ITS LONG BUT I CHALLENGE YOU TO READ IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH!!!

Ephesians 5 talks about the “Full Life”. Well, I want to share a few things on my mind and then I am going to get REALLY real with ya’ll.

There is more to life than getting drunk, doin drugs, havin sex, gossiping about the person next to us, sittin in a church pew, singin on a worship team and hey… even preachin from the pulpit!!!! There are so many things that we THIINK are “just the way things are” so to speak…

Ya see, God wants us to follow HIS will and plan for our lives (Jeremiah 29:11-13); NOT OURS!!! ~ can I say something real right here…?? ok… THAT SUCKS!!!!! Seriously! We want to be able to do our own thing, say our own thing be our OWN person. ESPECIALLY when we are young. We are untouchable. The worse thing about it is we don’t even get it. We think life is about our friends, hangin out, shootin the breeze and just livin life day by day… THERE IS MORE TO IT THAN THAT!

It bugs me SO much when I look at my life every day and see that I am/feel I am going nowhere… YEAH, I have traveled to 18 countires, over 4 continents, every province in Canada and well over 30 states in the US. I have ministered in the jungle of Africa and wept on a church floor in Lloydminster, Alberta. I have watched friends get hurt and friends be blessed… BUT… there is always still something that is jussssssst not right sometimes… Ya start to feel/see it when you begin to live YOUR life and not the life God has called ya to.

Ok so here it is… Ephesians 5 talks specifically about loving our enemies, avoiding sexual impurity, greed and obscene speech… Just so we don’t get confused, let me break that last one down for ya… (by the way this is to myself just as much if not more than the next guy) OBSCENE SPEECH = cussin, dirty talk, foolish talk about nothing, gossip, slandering, and the likes… let me break it down EVEN FURTHER… no “F” bombs, no “G.D.’s”, no butt holes, no “guess what my girlfriend did with me (shouldn’t be doin it anyways so if ya weren’t ya wouldn’t have to talk about it), and so on…

Why am I comin down hard? I FREAKIN LOVE YOU!!!! CHRIST LOVES YOU… PLUS, I’m sick of just livin everyday life… I know tomorrow I might do everything I have said not to do today… THE BIG PICTURE THOUGH is that we STRIVE to PRESS ON and change each day to become more like Christ…

So… in saying all that, I’m gonna break things down to a personal level aiiiiight!!! Here it goes.

To those of you whom I have considered an enemy OR you consider yourself MY enemy ~ I’m sorry. For anything I have ever done or said that has caused this relational DEATH between us. Please forgive me and if you are willing to take it to the next step, contact me and let me know how I let you down or how you feel our relationship is what it is… I want/need to make things right. Whether or not you did anything wrong, I can only do what I can do. So, you know who you are, (I don’t) I love ya and I am sorry.

To those at Living Faith Pentecostal Tabernacle in Lloydminster, Alberta… man, what a time we had with you guys for almost three years… Good times, bad times, etc. BUT, we left with not really ANY relationships with any of you. Some, yes and you know who you are… BUT most of you, either you are angry/hurt by us or us by you… I want to send the BIGGEST apology your way… Reguardless of how the cards were delt to us, IF we were in the RIGHT place with the Lord and walking by the Spirit, we would allow God to move in and do HIS thing, instead we took offenses left, right and centre and figured that we had to defend God and ourselves and in doing so, caused more damage to ourselves and to all of you… So, if any of you are out there and you want to mend our broken relationship, message us and let us know how YOU feel we let ya down and how we can right them. I want to also name a few people ~ I KNOW I KNOW… some people will say “Don’t throw this up on facebook” etc, etc… But listen folks, it is time to get real… its time to put our hearts on the line and show everyone what we REALLY are made of and IF we really mean business with God… Pastor Tim Acey, Rachel Acey, Mike Derkach, Rachel Derkach, Matt Gardner, The Amundrud family, Frank & Deb Leschinski… To all of you, I want to apologize on our behalf. No matter what we felt you did (right OR wrong) we should never have allowed ourselves to get bitter and angry and resentful… I ask for your forgiveness and for the opportunity however possible to rebuild that relationship between us. We NEED each other…

To any women out there that are reading this… If you have ev er been hurt by me, mis-led by me or involved with me in a physical way… I am SO sorry. I wish to God for my wife’s behalf that I had kept myself pure and honest for her… I grew up a man who looked at women as objects instead of treasures… I wish I had been more careful with the relationships God gave me through my life… I want to apologize FIRST and FOREMOST to my beautiful wife, Tara, for not upholding you as high as I could. For not loving you as I should sometimes and for letting you down when I have… You are the love of my life and I will always strive to do you right and to love you and to honour you before God…

For anyone who has ever heard me speak unrighteously, foolishly, stupidly, etc… please forgive me… I have been hypocritical myself through the years on this issue… No I don’t think it is heaven or hell when it comes to your speech, BUT it also shows your true colours….

Basically, what I am getting down to folks is that I need to right my wrongs and I want to press on in my life and do what God is calling me to do… Reach young people, older people, hurt people, etc… Our hope in ministry is to reach people who have been hurt and walked through some red h9ot fires in their lives due to choices, friends, family, churches, etc… I TOTALLY believe that everything we have been through has been allowed to prepare us for what God is calling us to…

There is so much more I COULD say, lol but some of you have said you love hearing from me, but it is always so long, I apologize, BUT when and if you take the time to read, and listen with your heart, you will ALWAYS learn something… be it about me, through me, etc .

I lvoe you all and look forward to rebuilding relationships that have been broken between myself and you… and tara and I and you… Contact us, call, write, email, facebook, text, etc… whatever… Below is all of our contact information… keep in touch and lets rebuild/build and army of people who will band together in love and embrace each other, weaknesses, strengths and everything else… and see something FINALLY begin to break in our communities…

If you made it all the way through this… lol I LOVE YOU… even if you didn’t and skipped to the end… love you to…

Blessings,

Pastor Shaun Antle

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