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Originally Posted by n david

Whatever Anthony Mangun decided is between him and Terry Shock. You accusing Mangun of nepotism is uncalled for. Even if POA does make Gentry pastor one day, it's none of your concern.

Do you know for fact this is why TS is leaving or are you just spreading stuff?

I am not the one who said TS was leaving. I have heard that he is but that was some months ago and I don't have any new information. I was simply commenting on the FACT that AM did not go through with the transition to TS when he turned 65 as he had said he was going to do for many years.

For what it is worth I thought it was a mistake for AM to repeatedly emphasize very specifically what his succession plans were so many years in advance and then emphatically repeating them year after year.

As far as your notion that it is nobody's business and we should just all stick our heads in the sand and not have questions or wonder about Pentecostal successions I am sorry but those days of Preachers being some sort of kings whose actions cannot be evaluated or questioned are long gone.

You can have great respect for men of God and honor them, etc without burying your head in the sand and ignoring that you have a brain and common sense.

Your admonition for folks to just "move along now, there is nothing to see here" is absurd. Are there instances where a son inheriting a church is a good thing? I am sure that happens many times. Are there instances where a man's judgement and ability to hear the will of God is colored by his carnal desires for his son? Also yes. Sadly I think the latter happens more often than the former. No hard statistics just over 50 years of anecdotal observation. You can't get away with just telling people it is none of their business anymore what goes on. If pastors have public ministry's and want their voices to be heard and respected they should have no problem with public or private comments on their actions as long as there are not false accusations or misrepresentations.