truthseeker

Lin #30, 4th paragraph-isn’t that interesting in light of the conspicuous absence of any teaching in the bible about ‘the neck turning the head’?! I can understand why you became disenchanted with what you saw.

Dave, #28, very good point! This recently happened to a family very close to me, and thank goodness the parents had the good sense to risk losing fellowship to report a hideous string of sexual abuses against several in their church and sadly, one in their own family, when they learned of it. It was only when they appealed to the legal or illegal aspect of not reporting the incidents that their church finally ‘approved’ them reporting it. They had already reported it, so the ‘approval’ was retrospective, but it was appalling that even the wife of the accused wanted to simply have him ‘forgiven’. Since it turned out that he had done this over the years numerous times, and all the forgiveness over the years had not at all changed his ways, it baffled the family who finally reported it that so many in the church still promoted ‘forgiveness’ and some counseling to ‘turn him from his error’. Hadn’t worked before, lives lay in ruin along his path, WHAT were they thinking?!!

Lin, that is also very interesting that you point out the fact that in the past, the SBTS used to be soft comp. A little bit of false teaching can absolutely spoil a huge and growing batch!