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Originally Posted by RevDWW
I could be wrong and if I am sue me, but I think there is clear teaching by Paul not to take your brother or sister to court, but to settle it among yourselves.
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1 Corinthians 6:1-8 (King James Version)
1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
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Unfortunately this passage of scripture isn't practiced in the church today. Saints are regarded as being low on the totem pole. Pastors and other leaders are protected even when proven in the wrong.
I'd say do all you can to keep from a lawsuit, but in the end you have to do what's best for you. And if it means a lawsuit, that may well need to happen in some extreme cases.
Just be prepared for the fallout.
Don't expect things to be rosey . . . especially if it's a minister or someone in leadership you target with a lawsuit.
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