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Justine Martinez's avatar

I am here to say amen to this book idea and thank you for your openness to this story being shared.

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Christy Lynne Wood's avatar

Thank you for the encouragement!

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Joy Comes's avatar

What I cannot understand is why leaders are not held the to the

Fruit of the Spirit. For some reason their charisma seems to excuse

them from this requirement!

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Christy Lynne Wood's avatar

That is the question!!

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Tony Cutty's avatar

Interesting comments about Christians being sometimes reluctant to challenge others. It's especially interesting to me because I am currently writing a blog series on the problems with Evangelicalism, and I'm challenging leadership a lot in that series. Like you, I don't want to judge them, nor try to evaluate their walk with Jesus. That's not my brief. But what I can do is to call out their glaring mistakes, some of which (in my series) go back over 30 years, and use them as examples of how bad Evangelicalism has become, apostate even. And it is possible to judge the denomination without naming names and judging individuals. And like you said, it has to be done :D

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Christy Lynne Wood's avatar

It has to be done! I’m glad you are doing your part to spread truth as well. We can definitely point out error without pridefully judging. I think often people don’t want to deal with the potential fallout so they make excuses. But that’s how we got to this place we are in. 😬

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Tony Cutty's avatar

Definitely a major contributor, and no mistake. Something else that I'm doing in my new series is simply to give testimonies and stories telling how leadership made complete balls-ups of things. It's quite a fertile field to work in haha!

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Christy Lynne Wood's avatar

For sure!

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