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Originally Posted by returnman
Don Fisher's dad was one of the kindest people I ever knew. My guess would be the he held a PCI view and was labeled "weak on the message". If wrong on that....correct me.
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Harry had a gentle spirit.
There are some on this thread making the same mistakes that the Portland area pastors made by making judgments based upon incomplete information and assumptions. I would suggest before broad-brushing anyone with a PCI view that you meet and get to know them personally without hearsay filters getting in the way.
There's others that wonder out-loud why the merger happened in the first place. There was a sincere desire on the behalf of both Jesus' name orgs to grow the kingdom. No one thought that the "children" would forget the will of the fathers (Loren Yadon). I hadn't thought about the draft being a motivator to merge, but I can't resource anything that would make it more than conjecture.
Someone else asked why they didn't just "get together" and form their own group. They joined Global, the International Ministerial Association, Bethel or stayed independent. Some of the larger independents were strong and large enough to credential their own.
So "WHY" didn't they form their own group? The strong spirit of disunity led the "guardians" of the "faith" to drive the "heretics" from their midst. The children of the "guardians" live on today. They claim to see, yet their blindness remains. The spirit of disunity, accusation, hearsay, slander, false accusations... lives on.
I can tell you from personal experience that slanderous attacks occur when someone perceived as "weak on the message" won't move on.
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