David Fish@DavidFish7
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.
