In his response to the @MikeWingerii video, Kris Vallotton expressed his incredulity that anyone would ever expect a pastor to publicly tell the church about a leader who is in unrepentant sin.
(Remember, Kris is the one who privately called shawn a "deceiver" and "unrepentant." HIS words, not mine)
And here Kris is saying, "If only we had a way of dealing with unrepentant sin..."
We do, Kris. It's all over the NT.
Bad ecclesiology enables bad actors.
Our doctrine of the church affects everything.
Kris, I spent my childhood at dinner tables with you. I admired you. I believed in you.
And it has come to this?
First you soft-pedaled Mike Bickle's abuse by saying, "Mike Bickle is my friend" instead of saying, "I support Mike's victims."
Now, with an hour available on a platform, you say everything except the one thing we needed to hear from you: "I'm sorry. I failed in my role as a shepherd. We failed as a church. We will do our best to make this right with Shawn's victims. We will never let this happen again."
I write this sincerely with profound grief in my heart.
A church that is incapable or unwilling to exercise church discipline is, according to our Protestant forefathers, not a church at all.
@MargaretTaylorU @MikeWingerii That's really interesting, my Catholic priest did two tours of duty in Afghanistan..... Something tells me you don't know what you're talking about.
@JuliusCaesar108@MikeWingerii How would you have him address that? Is it not possible to honor God through the enforcement of immigration and customs laws?
@JuliusCaesar108@MikeWingerii His entire career is built on thinking biblically. It should be obvious that your question makes no sense. These comparisons to Jesus flipping tables in the temple are so ridiculous. He would be flipping tables at the thought of virtue-signaling hero wannabes abusing his house
@johnpavlovitz@AdamKinzinger You are a pawn. I don't know how you can look yourself in the mirror every morning and think, "yeah this is who I'm going to be again today"