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‘Holding forth the word of life...’
(Philippians 2:16)
(Philippians 2:16)
Andrew Geuter
& Caroline
Open-air opportunities in Worcester, Gloucester, Hereford
and surrounding areas.
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Andrew’s latest article
My Testimony
I was raised in the shadow of Anthroposophy, attending a Steiner school from the age of four right up to seventeen. My grandfather had begun the work of Rudolf Steiner in this country by founding a home for handicapped children before the war. I joined the Anthroposophical society and taught for twelve years in the Steiner school where I had been educated.
However I had always been drawn to farming, it was almost a lifelong passion so that when an opportunity arose I took on a very rough piece of land and began to work it. Following a trail of disasters, I went back to teaching some years later. It was shortly before that that I met Caroline. Her father, having heard my exposition on the occult significance of blood in the fifth post Atlantean epoch looked me straight in the eye and said, "Andrew, forget that stuff, you need Jesus". Both Caroline and I thought this was hilarious and could hardly disguise our mirth.
Early the following January, my parents in law were praying on either side of me. It was not what I wanted. It was intensely embarrassing. While they were praying, and it seemed interminable, the simple thought came into my mind that if it was true that Jesus had died and come alive again and has not died since, then he is obviously alive now. I decided to test the idea by a very simple prayer on Euston station and received an almost immediate answer. Although this could have been mere chance, I decided to pick up a Bible when I returned home. Glancing through it, it seemed that Revelation was about my level and so I began a detailed study surrounded by a pile of learned, liberal, and straightforwardly weird books on the subject.
Comparing in minute detail what each commentator had written, I wrote almost encyclopaedic notes which are still in my possession. I managed to get no further than the end of the letters to the churches when I realised that the risen Christ of the Bible bore no resemblance to the far-distant Christ being of Anthroposophy and my break with the Steiner movement began.
Repentance and confession of Christ, in Baptism followed in due course.
However I had always been drawn to farming, it was almost a lifelong passion so that when an opportunity arose I took on a very rough piece of land and began to work it. Following a trail of disasters, I went back to teaching some years later. It was shortly before that that I met Caroline. Her father, having heard my exposition on the occult significance of blood in the fifth post Atlantean epoch looked me straight in the eye and said, "Andrew, forget that stuff, you need Jesus". Both Caroline and I thought this was hilarious and could hardly disguise our mirth.
Early the following January, my parents in law were praying on either side of me. It was not what I wanted. It was intensely embarrassing. While they were praying, and it seemed interminable, the simple thought came into my mind that if it was true that Jesus had died and come alive again and has not died since, then he is obviously alive now. I decided to test the idea by a very simple prayer on Euston station and received an almost immediate answer. Although this could have been mere chance, I decided to pick up a Bible when I returned home. Glancing through it, it seemed that Revelation was about my level and so I began a detailed study surrounded by a pile of learned, liberal, and straightforwardly weird books on the subject.
Comparing in minute detail what each commentator had written, I wrote almost encyclopaedic notes which are still in my possession. I managed to get no further than the end of the letters to the churches when I realised that the risen Christ of the Bible bore no resemblance to the far-distant Christ being of Anthroposophy and my break with the Steiner movement began.
Repentance and confession of Christ, in Baptism followed in due course.