Physical & Emotional Abuse Support Group

Betty, thank you for your response. Don has good days and bad. He is jealous of your time and reads into it what he sees as a problem. He wants us to deal with it, but I told him that we don't have any knowledge that you have done anything wrong. I sent the following letter to Don,

Don, You treated my phone conversation this morning the same way that you have dealt in the past with Betty. You acted like my opinion did not matter. You said what you wanted to say and did not give my any opportunity to share why I am doing what I am doing. Your opinion is important, but it does not mean that you have a right to monopolize a conversation and close it with your accusations.
The Bible teaches in Matthew 18 that church discipline is the last step. It is not the first step. The first step is going to a person and saying what is the issue. But that is with two or three witnesses. The second step is to take someone else, and the third step is to bring it before the elders of the church. We have to do it in order. That is part of God's plan. The idea is not to punish, the idea is to help bring about a change. If you turn people away from God's word in the process, you eliminate the ability of the Holy Spirit to convict them through the Bible. Pastor


Betty, I needed to ask you about Randy. I thank you for your response. I still feel that Don is changing and can change and that God is able to do more than we believe is possible.


Pastor
Posted on 11/05/09, 05:11 pm