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Originally Posted by Trapped
These kind of statements are hallmarks of abusive systems: "There is no ground in Scripture for saints to demand that the elders give a public accounting as to how a particular matter will be, or has been, addressed. Public assaults on the co-workers or the leadership in the church are tantamount to assailing God’s arrangement for the administration of the church." These statements are also the kind made by people who have something to hide..
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There is ground in Scripture for saints to demand that elders give public accounting. It is in Paul's epistle to Timothy, on managing the affairs of the assembly. 1 Tim 5:19 says, "Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses." The DCP writers think that we don't know what the Bible says?
It reminds me of the quote in the newspaper, where the reporter wanted to ask Philip Lee about the complaints made by many. The reporter was told, "He doesn't want to talk about it." In other words, Shut up - Big Boss doesn't want to talk about what others saw. Yet the co-workers and elders are free to continue their "public assaults" (their words) on others?
What a wonderful world they must live in, where they can "do unto others", but nothing reciprocates back towards them. Who imagines in their wildest fantasies that God is like this? That God doesn't care about right and wrong? That God only wants to prop up His deputy, irrespective of repeated patterns of unrighteous behaviour?
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Originally Posted by Trapped
"The proper way to deal with problems in the church" - here would have been a great place for them to show compassion, address abuse, say how seriously they take people's pain and suffering, but instead they fill it with comments about authority, former members reviling, shutting down questions, and sadly ending on the focus being "the work".
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Another thing that's ridiculous - how many times in 2019 have we heard the leaders say, when Philip Lee or Daystar or past fiascos got brought up, that this was already addressed? No, it was not addressed. It was stonewalled. Just exactly as you're doing here. Browbeating others is not addressing concerns, or dealing with problems. Your response today is a carbon copy of the response 45 years ago.