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Introduction               "The               Twilight               of               an               Actor"               existed               in               the               first               place               as               nothing               more               than               "Such               a               Short               Space               of               Time",               and               as               such               was               published               at               Blogster               on               the               19th               of               February               2006.

This               versified               piece               was               based               on               extracts               from               an               unfinished               autobiographical               story,               penned               I               think               in               early               summer               1999               as               the               decade,               century               and               millenium               were               all               three               coming               to               an               unquiet               close.

In               time,               the               title               piece,               "The               Twilight               of               an               Actor"               was               added               to               this               basic               structure               as               were,               more               recently,               "Fireworks               Frantically               Exploding"               and               "Dispersals               and               Endings",               both               originally               part               of               "A               Final               Distant               Clarion               Cry"               which               follows.

Final               editing               of               both               pieces               was               completed               in               November               2008.
               The               Twilight               of               an               Actor
               Following               on               from               Jim               Cartwright's               bitter-sweet               two-hander               "Two",               which               I               touched               on               in               some               detail               in               "The               Trials               of               a               Teetotaller",               I               performed               in               one               last               play               at               the               Rose               and               Crown               theatre,               the               character-driven               comedy               "Lovelives".

Written               by               the               cast,               this               ensemble               piece               consisted               of               a               series               of               sketches               centring               on               the               desperate               antics               of               a               group               of               singletons               attending               a               suburban               lonely               hearts               club.

Perhaps               then               it               chimed               perfectly               with               the               spirit               of               British               post-war               comedy               and               its               characteristic               celebration               of               banality               and               even               failure.

A               great               success               at               the               R&C,               it               could               in               my               opinion               have               been               developed               into               a               television               play               or               even               series,               but               sadly,               as               is               all               too               often               the               case,               a               brilliant               cast               dispersed               after               the               final               show.
               Then               later               in               the               year               at               the               Tristan               Bates               theatre               near               Leicester               Square,               I               played               two               small               roles               in               a               production               of               Euripides'               "Iphigeneia               in               Taurois",               directed               and               translated               by               my               longtime               friend               Adrian.

These               were               Pylades,               right               hand               man               of               one               of               the               main               characters,               Orestes,               and               the               Messenger,               a               maniacal               buffoon               of               a               character               which               I               interpreted               with               the               kind               of               refined               cockney               accent               once               supposedly               favoured               by               policemen               and               regimental               sergeant               majors.
               From               January               1996               until               the               following               summer,               I               served               variously               as               actor,               MC,               script               writer,               singer               and               musician               for               Street               Level,               a               Christian               theatre               company               based               at               the               Elim               Pentecostal               church               in               West               Croydon,               Surrey.

A               group               of               three               consisting               of               myself,               and               two               locals               girls,               19               year               old               Esther,               and               married               company               leader               Sally,               we               toured               several               shows               around               schools               in               various               tough               multicultural               south               London               areas               including               Croydon               itself,               as               well               as               Thornton               Heath,               Norwood,               Crystal               Palace               and               so               on.

One               of               these,               "Choices",               was               almost               entirely               written               by               me,               although               it'd               been               based               on               an               idea               by               Sally               who               also               heavily               edited               it               for               performance               purposes.

On               the               whole               the               kids,               most               from               relatively               deprived               backgrounds,               were               incredibly               receptive               to               our               productions,               and               we               were               greeted               by               them               with               almost               uniform               enthusiasm               and               affection,               which               was               a               surprise               and               a               delight               to               me               at               least,               although               Esther               had               told               me               before               our               very               first               show               that               they               tended               to               be               very               easy               to               relate               to.

Whether               she               meant               towards               visitors               I'm               not               sure,               but               I               imagine               she               did.
               Towards               the               end               of               the               summer,               Sally               asked               me               to               write               a               large               scale               project               for               the               group.

She               suggested               a               contemporary               version               of               John               Bunyan's               classic               Christian               allegory               "The               Pilgim's               Progress".

Once               I'd               completed               it               my               enthusiasm               for               Street               Level               had               begun               to               wane.

This               had               nothing               to               do               with               the               company               itself               which               for               a               few               brief               months               in               1996               was               marked               by               frantic               creativity               leading               to               shows               with               a               radical               Christian               message               performed               to               great               success               for               the               benefit               of               some               of               the               capital's               least               privileged               young               people.

The               fact               is               that               the               long               and               costly               early               morning               train               journeys               to               Croydon               via               Wimbledon               or               Clapham               Junction               were               starting               to               exhaust               me.

In               consequence               I               suddenly               quit,               which               wasn't               a               very               kind               thing               to               do               to               Sally               because               I               think               she'd               started               to               see               me               as               her               rock,               and               she'd               a               lot               of               responsibility               on               her               plate               with               regard               to               forthcoming               performances               and               the               training               of               a               fresh               crew               of               young               Christian               actors.

My               decision               was               especially               mean               given               that               Esther               had               herself               left               some               weeks               earlier,               but               I               had               to               consider               my               finances.

What's               more               my               spiritual               health               was               poor               at               the               time               after               weeks               of               labouring               over               what               turned               out               to               be               an               unwieldy               and               often               violent               epic               marked               by               scenes               of               the               blackest               humour.

As               things               turned               it               was               never               produced,               and               I'm               not               surprised,               because               although               artistically               it               had               its               merits,               spiritually               it               was               grossly               immature.

In               Christian               terms               I               was               still               only               a               little               over               three               years               old,               and               it               showed.

In               time               I               destroyed               all               but               a               few               pages               of               it.
               By               early               1997               I'd               vanished               into               the               sanctuary               of               office               life.

This               included               a               happy               and               socially               lively               period               as               a               panel               recruiter               for               Surrey's               Topflight               Research               which               came               to               a               close               when               I               started               rehearsing               for               a               production               of               Shakespeare's               infamous               Scottish               Play               at               Fulham's               Lost               Theatre               in               the               spring               of               1998.

Despite               my               cameos               as               Lennox,               the               Doctor,               and               an               Old               Man               being               praised               by               cast               and               audience               members               alike,               I've               not               acted               since               other               than               a               handful               of               auditions.

As               things               stand,               while               I'm               still               open               to               the               possibility               of               film               or               television               work,               the               likelihood               of               my               ever               appearing               onstage               in               a               play               again               is               virtually               nonexistent.

Quite               simply               put,               the               passion               to               perform               in               front               of               a               live               audience               that               raged               within               me               for               more               than               two               decades               has               long               been               quieted.
               Some               months               after               my               final               performance               at               the               Lost               Theatre               I               wrote               the               prose               piece               that               eventually               mutated               into               "Such               a               Short               Space               of               Time".

My               parents               were               on               vacation               for               a               few               weeks               during               the               period               of               its               creation,               a               glorious               summer               as               I               recall               that               was               the               last               of               the               millenium.

Therefore               I               was               often               at               the               house               in               which               I'd               spent               my               adolescence               and               young               manhood,               performing               a               variety               of               tasks               such               as               watering               my               mother's               flowers,               or               just               simply               soaking               up               the               atmosphere               of               a               place               I               loved.

Taking               sneaky               advantage               of               my               parents'               absence               I               transferred               some               of               my               old               vinyl               records               onto               cassette,               something               that               my               own               ancient               hi-fi               was               incapable               of               doing.

It               was               an               unsettling               experience...to               listen               to               songs               that,               perhaps               in               the               cases               of               some               of               them,               I'd               not               heard               for               ten               or               fiteen               years,               or               more,               and               which               evoked               with               a               heartrending               intensity               a               time               in               my               life               when               I               was               filled               to               the               brim               with               sheer               youthful               joy               of               life               and               undiluted               hope               for               the               future.

Yet               as               I               did               so,               it               seemed               to               me               that               it               was               only               very               recently               that               I'd               first               heard               them,               despite               the               colossal               changes               that'd               taken               place               since               then               not               just               in               my               own               life               but               those               of               my               entire               generation.

And               so               I               was               confonted               at               once               with               the               devastating               transience               of               human               life,               and               the               devastating               effect               the               passage               of               time               exerts               on               all               human               life.
               Such               a               Short               Space               of               Time
               I               love...not               just               those...
               I               knew               back               then,
               But               those...
               Who               were               young
               Back               then,
               But               who've               since
               Come               to               grief,               who...
               Having               soared               so               high,
               Found               the
               Consequent               descent
               Too               dreadful               to               bear,
               With               my               past               itself,
               Which               was               only
               Yesterday,
               No...even               less               time...
               A               moment               ago,
               And               when               I               play
               Records               from               1975,
               Soul               records,
               Glam               records,
               Progressive               records,
               Twenty               years               melt               away
               Into               nothingness...
               What               is               a               twenty-year               period?
               Little               more               than
               A               blink               of               an               eye...
               How               could
               Such               a               short               space
               Of               time
               Cause               such               devastation?
               Dispersals               and               Beginnings
               A               few               months               later               and               the               troubled,               turbulent               20th               Century               ceded               to               the               21st               to               the               sound               of               fireworks               frantically               exploding               all               throughout               my               neighbourhood.

Phoning               my               father               that               night               to               wish               him               a               happy               new               year               I               discovered               that               my               mother               was               desperately               ill               with               flu.

It's               crossed               my               mind               since               that               she               may               have               become               susceptible               to               the               flu               virus               partly               as               a               result               of               stress               caused               by               the               fact               that               I'd               latterly               quit               yet               another               course;               this               time               an               MA               in               French               and               Theory               of               Literature               from               University               College,               London,               which               was               one               of               the               most               prestigious               of               its               kind               in               the               world.

But               once               again               the               Lord               blessed               my               family,               and               she               made               a               full               recovery.

I               found               the               course               magnetically               compelling               on               an               intellectual               level,               although               I               knew               that               as               it               went               on,               there               was               a               strong               chance               that               writing               about               contemporary               Literary               Theory               would               come               increasingly               to               disturb               me,               and               perhaps               even               compromise               my               integrity               as               a               Christian.

As               things               turned               out,               I               did               leave               the               course               although               only               on               a               provisional               basis.
               This               was               a               time               in               my               life               marked               by               what               appear               to               me               now               as               an               extraordinary               succession               of               sudden               starts               and               endings,               and               subsequent               to               my               quitting               UCL               I               was               appointed               chief               musician               of               a               worship               group               for               the               church               I               was               attending               at               the               time,               Liberty               Christian               Centre.

Liberty               was               a               satellite               of               London's               famous               Kensington               Temple,               and               I'd               been               recommended               for               the               post               by               my               friend               Marina,               Russian               wife               of               Pastor               Louis,               late               of               New               York               City.

She               went               on               to               become               worship               leader,               alternating               as               such               with               Martha,               another               close               friend,               originally               from               Peru.

It               was               Louis               who'd               got               in               touch               with               me               the               previous               summer               through               KT               about               joining               a               cell               group               at               his               home               in               the               Surrey               suburbs.

This               eventually               mutated               into               Liberty,               with               which               I               forged               very               close               ties               from               the               outset.
               Soon               afterwards               I               also               quit               my               position               as               a               telecanvasser               for               an               e-commerce               company               based               in               Surbiton,               Surrey,               thereby               bringing               a               fairly               lengthy               period               as               an               office               worker               to               an               end.

Since               then               I've               worked               only               casually               in               various               fields               of               employment               including               telemarketing,               leafleting               and               as               a               television               extra.
               Another               beginning               came               towards               the               end               of               2000               when               I               was               made               lead               singer               for               a               Swing-flavoured               band               which               became               known               as               "Nuages"               after               the               famous               instrumental               by               French               Jazz               guitarist               Django               Reinhard,               but               soon               afterwards               this               was               counterbalanced               by               the               heartbreaking               dissolution               of               Liberty.

And               so,               in               early               2001               I               returned               to               my               first               spiritual               home               of               the               Cornerstone               Bible               Church,               a               large               fellowship               affiliated               to               the               Word               of               Faith               Movement               and               specifically               Rhema               Ministries               of               Johannesburg,               South               Africa,               pastored               by               Ray               McCauley.

Before               defecting               to               the               Riverside               Vineyard               Christian               Fellowship,               I'd               gone               to               Cornerstone               for               about               two               years               from               early               1993,               in               fact,               had               attended               my               very               first               service               there               even               before               becoming               a               Christian               in               '92.

Drunk               at               the               time               as               I               recall,               I'd               sat               next               to               a               beautiful               blonde               woman               of               about               55               whom               I               later               discovered               to               be               a               successful               actress               who               at               the               height               of               her               career               in               the               sixties               had               appeared               in               television               cult               classics               "The               Avengers"               and               "The               Prisoner".

Apart               from               an               elder               from               the               Jesus               Fellowship,               who'd               laid               hands               on               me               at               a               meeting               of               theirs               in               central               London,               she               was               my               very               first               Christian               encourager,               if               only               very               briefly.

However,               I               was               never               to               see               or               speak               to               her               again               as               I               didn't               return               to               the               church               for               several               months,               and               by               the               time               I               did               as               a               new               believer,               I               think               she'd               moved               to               another               church.

We               kept               on               missing               each               other,               and               she               died               in               June               2001.

I've               never               forgotten               her.
               I               left               Cornerstone               yet               again               in               late               summer               2002               in               consequence               of               a               desire               born               of               internet               research               to               seek               out               places               of               worship               existing               beyond               the               Pentecostal/Charismatic               family               of               churches.

Spiritually               speaking,               this'd               been               my               whole               world               for               nearly               a               decade,               to               the               degree               that               I               barely               acknowledged               any               other               church               as               worthy               of               the               name               Christian,               although               I               had               engaged               on               a               similar               search               of               short               duration               some               years               previously.

My               quest               led               me               to               churches               known               as               Cessationist               which               is               to               say               they               don't               believe               in               the               continuance               of               the               supernatural               Gifts               of               the               Holy               Spirit               such               as               Tongues               and               Prophecy.

It               also               took               me               to               the               Sermon               Audio               website,               and               I               downloaded               so               many               online               sermons               there               that               my               computer               may               have               crashed               as               a               result.

And               then               there               were               the               discernment               ministries,               some               cessationist,               others               not,               which               I               visited,               pouring               over               church               history               ancient               and               recent               for               hours               on               end.

I               learned               alot               from               them,               but               I've               not               returned               much               to               them               since.

When               all's               said               and               done,               there's               nothing               that               can               lure               me               from               the               pure               Word               of               God               which               has               ensured               the               survival               of               the               Church               of               Christ               for               over               two               millenia.
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               Among               the               churches               I               visited               during               the               wandering               year               of               2003               were               Bethel               Baptist               Church,               Wimbledon,               Christ               Church,               Teddington               and               Duke               Street               Church,               Richmond,               all               located               in               the               pleasant               and               affluent               outer               suburbs               of               south               west               London.
               Bethel               is               what               is               known               as               an               Independent               Fundamentalist               Baptist               church,               and               therefore               KJV               only,               which               is               to               say               using               the               King               James               Version               of               the               Bible               alone.

I               attended               three               services               at               Bethel               and               fully               intended               to               return               for               a               fourth               and               so               witness               the               preaching               there               of               David               Cloud               of               Way               of               Life               Ministries,               something               I               was               looking               forward               to               doing               given               that               I               was               familiar               with               his               sermons               from               the               Sermon               Audio               website,               but               never               did.

I               was               held               up               at               Wimbledon               British               Rail               station               for               over               an               hour               on               my               last               Sunday               at               Bethel,               and               this               experience               may               have               put               me               off               travelling               by               train               to               church.

But               the               truth               is               I'd               left               too               many               churches               in               my               time               and               was               tiring               of               the               position               of               new               boy               brought               about               by               perpetual               church-hopping.

I               now               believe               church-hopping               indeed               luke-warm               fellowshiping               in               general               to               have               the               potential               to               be               a               serious               danger               to               any               professing               Christian.
               Christ               Church               is               a               Free               Church               of               England               fellowship,               The               Free               Church               of               England               having               separated               from               the               established               C               of               E               in               1844               in               response               to               the               High               Church               Anglicanism               of               the               then               Bishop               of               Exeter,               Henry               Phillpotts.

It's               resolutely               Evangelical,               as               well               as               liturgical               and               Episcopal,               and               its               member               churches               adhere               to               the               Doctrines               of               Grace,               also               known               as               the               five               points               of               Calvinism,               these               being               Total               Depravity,               Unconditional               Election,               Limited               Atonement,               Irresistible               Grace,               and               the               Perseverance               of               the               Saints.

According               to               Calvinism,               those               who               form               part               of               the               Elect               have               been               predestined               to               final               salvation               by               God,               and               that               no               one               can               come               to               saving               faith               through               their               own               free               will               due               to               total               depravity.
               Duke               Street               is               also               a               Free               Grace,               or               rather,               Grace               Baptist               church,               while               Bethel               is               free-willist.

In               consequence,               many               Calvinists               would               describe               it               as               Arminian               after               the               Dutch               theologian               Jacobus               Arminius.

This               isn't               an               entirely               accurate               description               in               my               view               given               that               true               Arminians               maintain               that               salvation               can               be               lost,               while               most               Independent               Fundamentalist               Baptists               are               upholders               of               what               is               known               as               the               eternal               security               of               the               Saints.

In               short,               they               are               neither               Calvinist               nor               Arminian,               which               is               an               oxymoronic               statement               to               some               believers.
               For               me,               all               true               believers               are               united               by               a               clear               adherence               to               certain               key               doctrines               forming               the               basis               of               the               one               true               faith               without               which               there               can               be               no               salvation,               even               when               they               may               be               divided               by               non-saving               inessentials,               or               secondary               truths.
               For               example,               while               I'm               an               upholder               of               baptism               by               full               immersion,               I               certainly               don't               believe               adherents               of               infant               baptism               to               be               heretics,               at               least               not               automatically.

On               the               other               hand,               I               have               a               real               problem               with               those               who               maintain               that               a               person               must               be               baptised               in               order               to               be               saved,               because               the               Bible               makes               it               clear               that               we               are               saved               by               faith               alone.

That               said,               every               Christian               should               be               baptised               by               full               immersion               because               God               commands               it,               and               God               urges               us               to               keep               his               commandements.

Also,               while               I               believe               that               Christ               will               return               prior               to               establishing               his               reign               on               earth               for               a               literal               thousand               year               period,               which               makes               me               a               pre-millenialist,               a               person               can               maintain               that               Christ               won't               return               until               after               the               millenium,               or               that               the               millenium               lies               in               the               past,               and               still               be               a               saved               Christian.

These               are               justifiable               differences               in               scriptural               interpretation.
               Previous               to               my               year               of               nonstop               study,               2003,               I               knew               next               to               nothing               about               the               foundations               of               the               faith,               and               yet               still               possessed               a               degree               of               discernment.

What's               more               I               had               no               clue               as               to               the               differences               between               Calvinism               and               Arminianism,               Covenant               Theology               and               Dispensationalism,               Cessationism               and               Continuationism               and               so               on.

But               I               was               still               saved               by               the               Grace               of               God;               and               I               don't               believe               anyone               is               either               saved               or               damned               by               believing               one               or               the               other               of               these               distinctions.

That               said,               true               saving               faith               must               produce               fruits,               such               as               repentance,               and               adherence               to               sound               doctrine.

At               the               same               time,               I               was               fairly               well               versed               in               the               subject               of               the               prophetic               interpretation               of               the               Bible               thanks               to               having               been               introduced               to               this               early               in               my               Christian               life               by               Spencer               and               Grace               Nash,               through               various               magazines               and               books,               including               "Prophecy               Today".
               I               emerged               from               that               year               of               nonstop               study               at               peace               again               with               the               Pentecostal-Charismatic               movement,               and               yet               conscious               as               never               before               of               the               importance               of               adhering               to               the               fundamentals               of               the               faith               once               delivered               unto               the               saints.

But               this               didn't               last.

I               recently               had               to               make               yet               another               return               to               the               world               of               discernment               through               online               research.

No               Christian               has               a               perfect               knowledge               of               the               truth,               but               I               believe               there               is               unity               to               be               found               between               Evangelicals               adhering               to               the               fundamentals               of               the               faith               irrespective               of               what               church               they               choose               to               worship               in.

But               this               unity               can               never               be               at               the               expense               of               the               uncompromised               purity               of               the               Word               of               God.






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    1. gymnasia.wordpress.com/   02/24/2009
      ...country that the yoyo was invented in? Last Thursday, we visited Bethel Bible College in Malinta, Valenzuela and I had the opportunity to ask around 60 students...
    2. simplefreechurch.wordpress.com/   10/25/2013
      ...Gehrz writes of the Bethel situation, and draws...in the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities...that a lot of evangelical and bible colleges are...
    3. reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com/   08/29/2013
      ...anyone from trying to take theological charge of the movement. Stone's Folly, home of Bethel Bible College A bit of review: 1901 Stone’s Folly and Charles Parham was where it all ...
    4. davemosher.wordpress.com/   04/20/2011
      ... and contemplative Bible study. Anderson University [I'm...Theological Seminary Valley Forge Christian College Branch Campus Phoenixville, PA...Belmont University Nashville, Tennessee Bethel Seminary San Diego, St. Paul, East...
    5. mrclm.blogspot.com/   03/03/2006
      ...Bible. Related Tags: Bible , Christianity , Christian , Jesus , God , Christ...Homosexuality , Gay Christian , Gay , Freedom Ride , Bethel University , Bethel College , Bethel Seminary , Star Tribune , High view...
    6. kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/   04/23/2012
      ...with the actual history of one Bible onlyism, also known as...and secondary education so far at Bethel Christian Academy , a ministry of... to some Christian college. Ultimately, it could only be a...
    7. theorangemailmanmyblog.wordpress.com/   06/07/2008
      ...the Truth . Glen can have an odd sense of humor sometimes and this post of his about Bible College betrayed this side of him. As I read the post, my odd (and orange) sense...
    8. fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com/   11/19/2012
      ...early part of the 20th century. In 1901, Agnes Ozman, a young woman attending Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, claimed to have received a special "baptism of the spirit...
    9. tbjfansuk.wordpress.com/   06/25/2012
      ... freely distributed. The Rev. Dr P.N.S. Chandra Bose (President of Bethel Bible College; National Vice President, Bible Society of India) spoke in appreciation of the team...
    10. ernestanderson.wordpress.com/   03/24/2012
      ... over and, rather than fighting for control, Parham started Bethel Bible College at Topeka in October 1900. The school was modeled on Sandford’s “Holy...



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