Rock Waterman: Faithful Dissident

Rock Waterman now has a book out and it's available on kindle, through Amazon and createspace.  It's called "What to expect when you're being excommunicated."
Rock is a good friend of mine and I'm blessed to have such a caring, loyal friend who has always been there for me regardless of the circumstances.  He's always been there when I needed someone and for that I am eternally grateful. I've told him about my health issues and he's never once judged me for that and he still sees me as being credible.
I have learned so much from him, about writing, blogging, Mormon history, general history, how to be a better man and husband and, by example, how to be a better friend. I remember when I was having marital difficulties he said "Well Dan, you and your wife can fight for each other or you can fight with each other but you can only ever do one of those." It really did help and it still helps me.
Rock does strike me as the kind of man who has many Christlike qualities, He's honest with you so you always know where you stand.  He doesn't say it (or write it) if he doesn't mean it.  He's empathetic, he tries to understand peoples stories and where they're coming from and why they are the way they are.
Rock often talks about Christ-consciousness, meaning that you look at the world the Christ's eyes and sensibilities.  You look at others and see the image of God they were made in, you see a son or daughter of God who you knew well and loved in the pre-existence.
 Rock really does strike me as the kind of person who will and has performed many of the following services to many people, he does it routinely in fact:
 
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
³² And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
³³ And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
³⁴ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
³⁵ For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
³⁶ Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
⁴² For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal." Matthew 25:31
These are the teachings of Christ that I have been able to understand in a modern context because of my friendship with Rock. I am grateful to call him a friend.  I have learned a lot and my spiritual growth owes much to his talk of Christ-consciousness.
Rock is a dissident but he is also faithful to the word of God as he understands it.