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Old 05-23-2011, 04:35 AM   #17
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Default Re: “Can the Local Church Leadership Say, ‘We Were Wrong’?” (An Open Letter

I have not read the book in some time, but I recall that while BP wasn't directly antagonistic during the BM/SC affair issue, he ultimately did nothing and said nothing. He did visit their house, the perfect opportunity to make some kind of apology, yet he did nothing except sort of hem and haw around, then leave. If that was the apology, then it was drastically different from the certainty with which he spewed on Jane all those years earlier. If he didn't recount his error, he didn't aplogize.

And if he had truly apologized, not only would there have been no book, he would not have felt free to speak with pride of his involvement in the incident that ultimately caused the book so many years later.

His little bit of time at Jane's door was sort of like Jimmy Swaggert's one show where he cried and said he failed, then "shot the finger" at anyone suggesting he should step down from his ministry, even just for a time.
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