Mooney Guns for "Secret" Meeting in Detroit?

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Originally Posted by MissBrattified

I agree with Bro. Mooney; the secretive meetings and gathering of people to discuss what "shall be done" about current issues is nonsense.

Let them line up in front of the general board and picket and expound and plead and publicly declare a preaching strike or whatEVER--but there is no need to be secretive unless you are trying to draw people away from the organization or work some mischief behind the backs of others.

MOST of the time, what is done in secret needs to be hidden for a reason. I certainly don't teach my children to be secretive or to conceal their thoughts, words and actions. So adults even moreso need to learn to be bold and express themselves forthrightly and honestly, without subterfuge.

Now. That said. I have no idea what the secret meeting in Detroit was about, whether it had anything to do with the organization or not, and whether "secret" is the correct term for the event. "Exclusive" is not the same thing as "secret." But, it obviously wasn't public. I have to be a little suspicious of people who exclude anyone or any group who can offer dissension or an opposing viewpoint.

I believe it was debated or bantered about why the meeting was conducted as "secret" or "exclusive" - that being the absolute circus that would ensue had these men gone to GC and try to bring this before the body of ministers - very little would have been done. It would have been a frenzy of arguments and debating and no agreement.

PapaBear - Some are just nursing hurt feelings for not being invited to the meeting. So they've created this aura about the meeting as though it was something it really was not.

Regardless of dirty laundry or not ... the campmeeting was not the place to air grievances against the men who were a part of the meeting, IF that was the case. And IF so ... does he really believe TFT to be a false prophet?

What does "Intentionally Confrontational" have to do with the Gospel of Christ? How many were baptized and filled with the HG after that message? More than likely, instead of building an atmosphere where people could receive the HG, it created confusion and anger.

Speaking of secret ... some complaining about these ministers having this meeting in secret; why don't they just come out and say what was said, etc...

IF PM was talking about the Detroit meeting and ministers from there being false prophets ... why doesn't he just name names? If he wants to be truly "Intentionally Confrontational" ... then by all means, do so ... name names instead of hiding behind innuendo.