The day I feared has arrived. The very outcome that I knew was probable, but prayed it would be different this time, has come to fruition. There will apparently be no more waiting for the church leadership to be transparent about their actions that started back in February 2012. They have waited it out. Continued to release only what they want people to hear. Quieted those that tried to uncover the reality of the unfolding events.
They will move on now. They will bring a new staff to replace the one that left. They will tell the new staff that some of the previous staff members resigned when, in reality, they were forced into resignation using a process that even they (the church leaders I spoke with) could not defend as being Biblical. They will likely neglect to mention to the new ministers that a couple of previous ministers left…not because they simply decided to serve elsewhere or change career paths…but because they were so saddened by the deception that surrounded the process by which their fellow staff members were forced to resign that they could not, in good conscience, put their own families at risk by staying in such a place.
The families who were crushed by the actions of this church will now be left to deal with an open-ended journey of grief. They will never have the opportunity to face their accusers nor attempt to reconcile. No one will come to their defense publically to separate the truth from the rumors. There will be no closure.
How many more times will history repeat itself in this church?
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