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Originally Posted by rayliotta
How's this as an example of double-speak, Kerry Robichaux's response to questions about the "one publication" (Dec 2005):
"...The matter of one publication is not a matter of the common faith at all but something related to the one ministry in the Lord's recovery. There is no reason to confuse the two, nor to apply the standards of the one to the other. We feel that the ministry is the sounding of the trumpet among us in the Lord's recovery and that there should be no uncertain sounding of this trumpet, as Brother Lee has mentioned on a number of occasions. The one publication is not the basis of our accepting or rejecting any persons in the communion of faith; thus, it should not be insisted on as an item of the faith. However, while the common faith is general and inclusive, there must be more discipline and speciality among the ministers of the Word to maintain the one voice in the ministry of the truth..."
http://onepub.robichaux.name/2005/12...tions_a_1.html |
Classic, really classic. We don't use the "one ministry" to receive new believers, but we can use it to excommunicate the mature ones. Think of the hypocrisy, a sliding scale that changes based on the whims of those that use it is by definition an uncertain trumpet. Why is justice blind?
Surely KR understands that deriving the "one publication" teaching from "no uncertain trumpet" cannot be a hard and fast rule. Who is to say that "no uncertain trumpet" means one publication, or that one publication results in a clear trumpet sound? But even so you could never take this teaching to then use a yardstick to excommunicate TC. Now it is clear the KR is trying to justify what happened to TC while also explaining why new members are not measured by the same standard.
This has to be the classic example of double speak. Nice to know that all of that higher learning that KR has did not go to waste, now he can spin the truth with the best of them. Isn't it a shame that so many think that the purpose of elite schools is to train you how to be a better liar?