I am thankful to this day for those times. Though you may think otherwise, we have never had negative feelings toward you or anyone else in our past associations in your denomination. I would love to be wrong, but I do not believe I am. We met a man recently who said you too had received the Holy Spirit in the ‘80s. You are now famous, acclaimed by many, and your children follow in your footsteps. Read at least part of my spiritual journey, Victor Hafichuk’s Testimony, if you have not already done so. I thought repentance was a great thing, and it truly was, but added to repentance, after a season of remorse and confessing attitudinal sins at Faith Baptist in the fall of ’74, to you and several others, in due time, the Lord baptized me in His Holy Spirit. You could not believe it because it went beyond, if not came against, you and your spiritual position, not being in Christ Jesus. You did not believe that God had taken us to Himself, giving us His Spirit. My expectation was that you would decline correspondence, so I thought that perhaps a word without formality might get somewhere. I did not expect that things had changed. I recall writing to you once in 1975 or ‘76, and your response was a bitter one. I could have, perhaps should have, contacted you and your family personally when finding your website. Victor Hafichuk He then wrote this letter to Henry Blackaby: Now contending for the faith once delivered to the saints, If you understood and were one with the Lord, you would not be where you are or rejecting what we have to say.

We are speaking truth that all need to hear, for very life. The Lord began to teach us directly, personally, and to change everything in our lives, for which, today, I am very thankful. Indeed, there was, in spite of profession otherwise, great irreverence. Suddenly I was seeing, by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the evangelical spirit and works were quite contrary to God. Then my wife and I were baptized in the Holy Spirit and that changed everything. I knew Henry while in Saskatoon at the Christian Training Center as a student under him. Bamboozling Blackaby and His Black Legacy Victor sent this letter to Dana Blackaby at, who asked to be taken off our mailing list after we began sending Henry’s organization The Issues of Life:

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