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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
Is it wrong to discuss these things?
The answer is an obvious, no.
Is it proper to beat the issue into the dirt, for the enjoyment of people who happen to have issue with a certain movement of Christianity?
The answer is an obvious, no.  |
I suppose I should go into more detail as to what I meant.
To answer your question about beating an issue into the dirt for the
enjoyment of people who have issues with the OP movement or any other for that matter. If there are people who actually
enjoy somebody else falling away from our Lord through sin, then they ought to recheck their own standing with God. We are talking about somebody's soul here and there should never be rejoicing over another person's sin. This is why I started that thread asking about restoration and what is the church's scriptural policies about restoring a fallen back to God.
But my issue is for the ones in leadership who knowingly impart somebody else's speck (such as not following standards) to other people in the church, then allow it to spread across to other churches so that they would not be welcomed should they feel it is best to leave a church they are not comfortable attending. The backstabbing and whispering is rampant. The telephone lines burn up to the other church body before the departed family ever makes a second service. That is wrong and very few people question what that pastor or other leadership has done to that person and their entire family.
I know that there is leadership that does indeed do this. But when the beam shoots forth from the leadership's eye for something far worse than disobeying a pastor's standards, there are some who want to give that person a pass and tell everybody not to judge when they themselves have judged another with the speck in the eye too harshly themselves.
At that point when the pastor's infraction is made known to the community, the old dead horse gets pulled out and the clubs start flying again.
It will happen every time.
It may have happened elsewhere, but in all my years in pentecost, I've not seen the leadership try to restore a fallen saint through prayer and anointing of oil. By contrast, I have heard of coverups from the leadership for their own family in the effort not to tarnish their ministry. From simple standards violations to outright adultery....even murder.
As for me, I know that there must be some good, sincere men and women in churches, otherwise God would not move in them. I know people still go to churches and receive the Holy Spirit and learn to please God and live a Holy life.
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