[aron]

I'd like to revisit the theme of the flawed church leader who like the adulterer David, was still a man after God's heart. My counter is that David repented. And I then asked, What if David, when confronted, instead had Nathan killed, and when shipped all the witnesses and their families out of town?

Look what WL did, when he found out about his Office Manager at LSM, who happened to be his son. Then look at what MR did, and TC, and JI. It looks as though JI was the flawed man after God's heart, who was willing to repent. He'd invested his life in this. His name was on the published books, next to WL. And yet he was willing to repent and let it go.

And Godfred Otuye, another Anaheim elder. Same thing - GO was willing to repent of his promotion of something not after God's heart, and to accept responsibility. Again, a human life's course altered, with all the effects on his family, who either has to denounce GO as a rebel against God's throne, or be expelled. I don't doubt the human cost was high.