Eugene Relaas

Hi Leia.

Ek het jou brief gelees en consider wat jy gese het. Dankie dat jy my persoonlik message en nie verder
my naam op a public site swart verf nie, wardeer jou insette en approach..

Laat ek begin deur om onverskoning te vra vi grammar en spelling, want ek besef Potchefstroomers is da
om mekaar binne die lyne te hou van reels, en mekaar te poliesie op elke vlak. Maar ek hoop jy sal my
message verstaan, en nie fokus op di content.

Ekt die week Mark begin lees, het di hele boek deur gelees. Ek weet ek is nie perfect ni, ek besef dat dit
is wat die Here Jesus vi ons almal se, dit was eintlik die core issue...

Maar ek besef ook, dit maak nie saak hoe sincere Jesus was en hoe reg Hy was, Hy was persecuted deur
sy eie mense al het Hy hulle genees en lief gehad.. Ek is dankbaar dat ek saam Hom lei en verstaan
waardeur Hy gegan het. Ek besef mense gooi my soos die prostitute voor di Grand Designer van di
Universe, en accuse my vi dit wat hulle my mee gevang het. Maar toe sien ek di Here skryf di sondes van
my accusers neer op die stof..

Jy accuse my dat ek a pregnant vrou poliesie stasie toe gesleep het. Ek dink jy misverstaan die storie
heeltemal, en daar is hierie irony ini lewe dat daar altyd twee kante van a storie is.. Maar ek besef ook as
a afrikaner dat ons pride en self righteousness ons geleer het om ni te waak van ons kant vannie storie, I
have accepted that I too have inherited this trate as a afrikaner..l

My kant vannie storie:
Dit het als begin toe ek soos di prostituut oor a lyn parkeer het, ek was a nota op my kar geplak van
watse "poephol" ek is.. Ekt toe gaan dink oor dit en het onthou daar is hierie groep "potch poepholle",
ekt gedink dat die mens het ook a foto van my op die groep gesit. Maar ekt nie a foto van my daaar
gekry nie, maar a foto gesien wat a ander persoon gepost het.

My gedagte was, is ons nie a klein dorpie nie? Moet ons nie mekaar net meer GRACE gee en die ander
cheek draai? Love thy enemies and do good to those who do evil to thee? Ekt toe in die spirit of doing
good gepost op die post -met die doel om awarenesss te lig oor hoe lelik ons mekaar as
potchefstoomers treat.. En ekt besef ekt self met daai lelike spirit rond geloop. Toe post ek hierie
message: dis nie di woorde ni, maar dit is wat ek bedoel, jy kan dit weer gan lees en self besluit:

Hoekom moet ons as potchefstoomers mekaar so afbreek? Maak ons nie almal voute nie? Dalk het jy di
talent om reg te parkeer, maar watse ander dinge doen jy verkeerd? Partykeer verstaan mense nie the
madness behind your ur methiod, but a good deed never goes unpunished,.. Parykeer maak mens foute,
ek kan jou belowe jy het al klaar foute vandag gemaak, net soos ek het.. What God is asking, can you see
the error of your own lives instead of pointing out the splinter in thy brothers eye? Maar mense argue
en rationalize "I dont have a plank in my own eyes, no, it is indeed my brother...

What I see about potchefstroomers, seeing it from the Lords perspective:
I see a people who are attacking, critisizing and pointing out every little fault and error, instead of a
community who love and care for each other, who build each other up, who has love and patience for
each other..
Love is patience, love is kind, it does not boast it does not envy.... It does good to those who do evil...
Ek sien die kerke is vol, i see a people who are living a moment of spiritual fire, but that fire does not
exceed the doors of the church. Because a people was taught: whosover believes will not perish but will
gain ever lasting lives... But they forgot the one who said that also said: Even Satan believeth and yet
sins... Not everyone who says to me LORD LORD, will enter the kingdom of Heaven.. But those who DO
the will of the father... To love each other as I have loved you..

I also realize that multiple people are hating me now because I "forced a pregnant woman to go to the
police" I would like to inform you that is not true, I gave the pregnant lady (who I have also considered
may be your friend or relative) an option to please write a public apology, she was reluctant to trample
on the dignity and rights of others on a public domain but not set right on a public domain, I did not ask
her to come to the police station, they insisted on coming to the police station because of their
unwillingness to put their pride in their pockets and apologize publicly.. I wanted her to do this because I
wanted to create awareness to potchefstroomers that is is not just morally wrong what they are doing
(by being so petty about each others little problems) but that it is also against the Law of our country,
Jesus also asked us to obey the laws of the country... And to give unto Caesar what is Caesars.. -Even if
Caesar is extorting the people... What I am saying is, I did not ask her to come to the police station, they
did that because they refused to publicly make right what they publicly did wrong, in fact Id like you to
picture what would have happened if they did take upon them the cloak of humility and shame: others
would have seen this, and they too would have considered this: Is it not so that we too can err? Look at
what a fine example these people have set about humility and realizing their wrong, maybe Eugene has
a point: that point is this: That we are not helping each other up and stopping each other from parking
wrong because thus far our efforts of judgement have failed... Maybe if we stopped judging and doing
what is right and setting an example then people will follow us too as the disciples followed Jesus... We
can become fishers of men by throwing in the net on the other side... Not trying to use force and
manipulation, but by leading by example and love.. I had no real intention to take anyone to court, there
was method behind my madness.. You may not see it in this lifetime, but perhaps in the next.. Then you
will understand why loving me (your enemy) was so important.. Because enemies teach us our limits.. I
gave them an option between writing a public apology in order to set a president and example to

potchefstroomers that persecuting each other on such little faults is not worth the effort.. What
happened to understanding and kindness because of understanding..

I also realize that as Jesus was hated in His own town more than other places, so I must be hated and
despised in my home town.. I need to suffer with Him.. I also realize I am not Him, and can also sin.. But I
have also learned that the Holy Spirit points out my sins to me, and therefore I can repent and ask
forgiveness, and be on a road to sanctification... Instead of becoming more and more like Satan, I wanna
become more and more like Jesus...

I also understand that sometimes Jesus helps us to not make errors.. And just as He has not erred, so the
Scribes and Pharisees continuously came to Him to tempt Him to sin.. By cornering Him with
manipulating questions, calling Him names and trying to find the smallest of fault with Him and He's
followers..

But I also know this: If the Lord is for us, who shall stand against us? My intentions are purely this:
To create awareness of our sins against each other, to inform the Potch community that we are a people
of God.. And that certain people are being used as instruments of Satan to spread a spirit of
judgmentally and self righteousness and self justification.. Its funny no one can do wrong in potch..
When their sins are pointed out, they point the finger right back...

A pregnant woman has no more rights than the man who does little or less sin than she does. But I also
recognize that sensationalism is Satan's call for defense... And that anyone else who uses it is being
driven by the human emotions instead of doing what is right.. Satan also felt that He wanted to be God,
He was driven by the emotions of jealousy and self pity, even though he was second in command of the
universe next to the trinity...

I ask you this, what was more easier and for the greater good of the community, someone asking
apology and admitting to their wrong (pregnancy is not a ticket to do wrong and call other people
names) or someone (besides me) making a valid case which in a court of law will bare weight and not
pregnancy.. Pregnant woman also murder, pregnant woman also hate, pregnant woman also go to jail because the line of right and wrong is not altered because of pregnancy, no matter how much you may
associate with the feelings that go with pregnancy, this is not about feelings, lie how others feel the
wrong thats being done because of parking errors...

I too am a person who have loved ones, I too smile and laugh and cry.. I too get angry, I too get doubt...
But do I now have to doubt the Lord because of all the feelings that my accusers have caused me to
feel? Do I now say that the Lord has given up on me? No, I Say, get thee behind me Satan, for it is

written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.. Bread being substance like the
substance of chemicals which burn inside me just as much as an pregnant woman...

I have been attacked and accused of all kinds of things lately, you are among a few. I dont hate you, in
don't take it personal that you call me names.. I am more concerned about the name that the Lord calls
me than that of the limited perspectives of people... I say to the Lord, forgive this woman for she does
not know what she is doing because of the limited perspective she has on this subject, I say to the Lord,
please help her to see the message of love.. I pray that you will not have to suffer what I have suffered
to see the error of thy ways, but that you may learn from this message of love.. May you take the easy
way..

Closing statement:
I want you to know that my intentions was pro to the community of potch.. Who are becoming more
and more crippled by the sins of judgement they pass unto each other.. My intention was to break the
chain of destruction and hate.. To say listen people, what is easier, to learn the ways of love for each
other, or to face the same judgements as thy have passed? Few intentionally err... But we judge each
other as if we are intentionally sinning against each other, but that is not the sin, the sin is accusing each
other of intentional wrong doing and selfishness.. Let us love each other and be graceful is my prayer to
the potch people.. I would love to see friendly faces that reflect a smile from the heart and greet each
other with true compassion and care that comes from the heart, and not outward expressions to
conceal hidden feelings of animosity,..

This is my prayer.. And be sure that there is a enemy that will do everything to make me seem as the
enemy, as Jesus was seen as the enemy.. For thy will be hated for my names sake... And be even more
sure that thy will suffer the same hand of those who accuse others... I was for you and the people.. Not
against any individual, but against their spirit of hate..

Sincerely
Eugene Els