Never said that anybody gets a free pass to gossip. TB put himself in the world's limelight when he chose to do the things he did.
But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
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Numbers 32:23)
I'm just saying that the church is no better than the minister who leads it. Just saying that we have a lot of gossip because the saints know that the ministers gossip. They protect themselves and their brothers, but unleash on the saints.
I've seen it with my own eyes that ministers, unless they hate each other as I have seen some here do, will likewise hide their fellow minister's sins from the saints and from the world.
But, the premise here is that there is a minister who treated some well...mistreated others while preaching against things that he was doing himself.
The mistreated people are not likely to forget that. Are they wrong? Perhaps. But I happen to believe that Christ did not mean for one man to rule over others. He said not to. The Proverb: Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
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Proverbs 11:14)
The christian church would be wise to dump the one pastor to one congregation model and start having established equal leaders of the people. This way they can have the accountability with each other that is so often discussed here.
Just sayin...
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