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Re: **preacher forums**
Also, doctrinal issues are a bit different, because they're usually directed at one person--the person who is teaching/preaching the doctrine. Unless someone is attacking that person's character (and they shouldn't be), the debate is rather limited. Dialogue with peers and elders is the only way to resolve the issue. In the case of moral failures, we should be trying to restore that person to their relationship with God, and we should be mindful of the hurt their families are experiencing.
Repaying evil for evil is the easy way out. It can even be the fun and entertaining thing to do. It's not the Christian thing to do. When I see people who take great delight in dragging other Christians through mud and trying to make them look bad, I think to myself that they aren't like Christ. Even if those people being dragged through the mud deserve it, and aren't in any way like Christ either.
Truth be told, we all deserve mud-dragging, don't we? (And I think I'll retire that metaphor now.)
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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