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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: Warfare
Dear Pastor,
Some years ago I was at Longburn College near Palmerston North to attend an elder's meeting. For a time the N.N.Z. President was there and at one stage I approached him to congratulate him on the tenor of a letter he had sent to the Wellington CB s.
They had accused the minister of exercising kingly power and wanted him sacked. The President had advised them to first approach the minister in question. He didn't know it, but it was a masterly move.
He asked me if they had done what he suggested and I laughed and said, don't be daft, they wont dare do that. He was puzzled and asked why? So I told him they asked you to sack him because "they want to exercise kingly power." It is just one big political power game. Now they have your reply, they have found themselved stymied, so leave it alone you have, in one move, made peace in our time.
They had done what they did not because they had any real grounds but because they had been advised to do it by a very paranoid mad man who had been taught by his father in law the importance of attacking the ministers and how to do it. He had a saying, The conference sends us these people and they cause a lot of trouble. Then they leave and we have to clean up after them.
Simple observation would have quickly seen the stupidity of this but he had wanted this man's daughter so he had to follow suit. Tragically being afflicted with paranoia he wasn't able to let go once the old man died so the curse continued for years.
What long concerned me is the fact that these ministers are usually married and have children. If they make a mistake whether by accident or bad judgement, the axe falls on them too and that is tragic.
More concisely, those who judge are guilty of what they accuse in others. And a madman can influence a church board. But if elders can be advised to obey Christ's counsel in Matthew 18:15-17, then great evil can be stayed.
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