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Joined: 15 Oct 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Halstad, Minnesota
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 5:49 pm Post subject: To those who dish it out, but can't take it, 2nd copy
I'm disappointed, Eugene, in your moving my reply to www.everythingimportant.org/viewtopic.php?t=390. You said in your email to me that it was "way off topic," but it most certainly was not.
If you look above, you will find that you posted the article, "ADVENTIST CHURCH LEADERS WARMLY RECEIVED BY GOVERNMENT MINISTERS." The subject you chose for that post was "Seventh-day Adventists fraternize with terrorists."
In my reply, I basically raised the questiuon of how else should they have tried to reach those folks for Christ.
I asked how Jesus would have treated them.
I suggested that if you have a problem with an SDA pastor having a visit with a CHRISTIAN member of the Sudanese government, that perhaps you needed to make sure you had a love for souls like you should have.
It's your forum, so you can do what you want. However, forums don't operate this way. Every post that disagrees with the administrator's position isn't supposed to get moved.
So this thread is about whether the Adventist Church has erred in its relationship to Sudan. And I cannot say that it has, based on that article you posted. I WISH I HAD BEEN THERE so I could have visited with the Sudanese officials too. And I would have tried to find a way to suggest to them that the situation needs to be improved.
But would the world have ever known about my efforts? Would I have put it in a press release? Not if it would have jeopardized the very goal I was seeking.
If you haven't enquired of ADRA personally to see why they have done what they have done, and to see if maybe they have done more than you think, then you have a Christian obligation to do so before you criticize. However, if you have no intention of doing so, and no intention of allowing this post to remain, than take me off your mailing list.
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject: From email
Dear Pickle,
I moved your recent post to the Courtroom for adjudication. For now, feel free to copy your post and to place it in the Re: ADRA Announces Their Willful Ignorance thread. I will be happy to explain the forum rules and to answer your administrative concerns in the Courtroom thread.
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