We will continue to read your work, I have more lately with less streams, and pray for you.
However, as selfish as it might seem prima-fascia, for me and my new wife, Roosh Hour has never been about a “show” in the traditional sense, it’s been a journey.
I was a baby Christian when I watched the Roosh Hour “Logos Rising,” I couldn’t much listen to the old content as a new Christian, but I caught the Dr. Jones title hit me like a ton of bricks.
I understand this is a strictly Eastern Orthodox forum, so forgive the potential doctrinal differences in my terms, but I watched that episode and I said aloud, “DUDE! Roosh gonna get saved!” My excitement was as though a secular person won a Mediterranean cruise. I’ve actually learned more about Eastern Orthodoxy in the West due to Roosh’s streams and I’m eternally grateful, it was invaluable. So when I say “saved” what I meant was that the same Holy Spirit that filled my heart and soul the Sunday after Easter 2018 was about to invade Roosh’s heart and turn it to a “heart of flesh” - He was about to get Ezekiel 36’d.
I sure of it. I don’t know why, I hope one day I will, but the Holy Spirit just made me more sure in Roosh’s conversion than anyone else I’ve known since becoming a Christian. It was like I could leave and say “ok Lord, we gathered that sheep (as though I had anything to do with it?) what’s next?”
And sure enough, it wasn’t long after, the next stream for sure, Roosh proclaimed his conversion to Christianity. It’s been wonderful to watch what I would call Roosh’s “Sanctification” along the way, the process by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us and polishes us to such that we can shine as a lamp in a world in darkness. We all have a different prescription, but (again, I don’t think this is the ROCOR church’s hermeneutic) in Romans 8 when Paul says “…For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be CONFORMED (caps for emphasis) to the image of His Son… and those whom He predestined he also called, and those whom He called he also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified.”
Many may not agree, but getting to watch the Lord work and speak through His servant Roosh has been invaluably faith building for me and I’m sure many others.
We can see how the Lord polishes His people to look like a shining pot made for Honorable use. I can’t express my gratitude.
I love my church, my brothers and sisters at my local church. But Roosh was so faith building in knowing as a Christian I am not insane to be deeply troubled by the sin we see growing around us like a python constricting us; as Roosh Hour was an incredible fellowship it seemed to relieve those pressures and re-orientate ourselves to look towards the King. He already won. It’s over.
Roosh Hour helped a person like me with a mind like Roosh’s (a former actuary) to hear a Christian perspective on the things many Christians simply don’t understand or talk about or worry as much about. As the writer of Hebrews says “do not neglect the meeting of yourselves.” I feel though NOT a substitute to being a part of a local body of believers under the care of Biblical Elders that Roosh Hour was an online space we could go to meet and speak about topics that we think about maybe more than others and know we are in the midst of believers.
In short, I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to witness Roosh’s Christian journey, not unlike John Bunyan’s “Christian” in The Pilgrim’s Progress. It’s a modern version it feels like.
God Bless you Roosh, and if you’re ever in Texas, Uvalde Texas has the most incredible bird watching at Garner State Park, with crystal clear streams and pools and the most beautiful views on this side of Heaven.
However, as selfish as it might seem prima-fascia, for me and my new wife, Roosh Hour has never been about a “show” in the traditional sense, it’s been a journey.
I was a baby Christian when I watched the Roosh Hour “Logos Rising,” I couldn’t much listen to the old content as a new Christian, but I caught the Dr. Jones title hit me like a ton of bricks.
I understand this is a strictly Eastern Orthodox forum, so forgive the potential doctrinal differences in my terms, but I watched that episode and I said aloud, “DUDE! Roosh gonna get saved!” My excitement was as though a secular person won a Mediterranean cruise. I’ve actually learned more about Eastern Orthodoxy in the West due to Roosh’s streams and I’m eternally grateful, it was invaluable. So when I say “saved” what I meant was that the same Holy Spirit that filled my heart and soul the Sunday after Easter 2018 was about to invade Roosh’s heart and turn it to a “heart of flesh” - He was about to get Ezekiel 36’d.
I sure of it. I don’t know why, I hope one day I will, but the Holy Spirit just made me more sure in Roosh’s conversion than anyone else I’ve known since becoming a Christian. It was like I could leave and say “ok Lord, we gathered that sheep (as though I had anything to do with it?) what’s next?”
And sure enough, it wasn’t long after, the next stream for sure, Roosh proclaimed his conversion to Christianity. It’s been wonderful to watch what I would call Roosh’s “Sanctification” along the way, the process by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us and polishes us to such that we can shine as a lamp in a world in darkness. We all have a different prescription, but (again, I don’t think this is the ROCOR church’s hermeneutic) in Romans 8 when Paul says “…For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be CONFORMED (caps for emphasis) to the image of His Son… and those whom He predestined he also called, and those whom He called he also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified.”
Many may not agree, but getting to watch the Lord work and speak through His servant Roosh has been invaluably faith building for me and I’m sure many others.
We can see how the Lord polishes His people to look like a shining pot made for Honorable use. I can’t express my gratitude.
I love my church, my brothers and sisters at my local church. But Roosh was so faith building in knowing as a Christian I am not insane to be deeply troubled by the sin we see growing around us like a python constricting us; as Roosh Hour was an incredible fellowship it seemed to relieve those pressures and re-orientate ourselves to look towards the King. He already won. It’s over.
Roosh Hour helped a person like me with a mind like Roosh’s (a former actuary) to hear a Christian perspective on the things many Christians simply don’t understand or talk about or worry as much about. As the writer of Hebrews says “do not neglect the meeting of yourselves.” I feel though NOT a substitute to being a part of a local body of believers under the care of Biblical Elders that Roosh Hour was an online space we could go to meet and speak about topics that we think about maybe more than others and know we are in the midst of believers.
In short, I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to witness Roosh’s Christian journey, not unlike John Bunyan’s “Christian” in The Pilgrim’s Progress. It’s a modern version it feels like.
God Bless you Roosh, and if you’re ever in Texas, Uvalde Texas has the most incredible bird watching at Garner State Park, with crystal clear streams and pools and the most beautiful views on this side of Heaven.
