April 23, 2008
Cover Ups
Last Sunday I spoke with a well respected woman who told me she’d been reading the blog and, “…so far I’ve found nothing that I disagree with.” Her comment was a blessing to me and I value the compliment. It can be difficult to be honest about situations in the church. I learned early in life how to look the other way and make excuses for my abusive alcoholic father. When mom had a black eye she tried to cover it up with make-up and dark glasses, and we didn’t talk about it. Similarly, many of us cover-up and make excuses for situations in the church. We really do try to help the church save face. The reality is that cover-ups don’t work.--Gail
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Gail;
-----Covering up for another is more than participating in a lie; it effectively creates falsehood of its own. Whether misleading statements are made, or diversion from the truth is accomplished simply by crafty tactics, the effect is all the same: the creation of false perception in another. That is what I meant in my letter to the church when I claimed that leaders were causing others in the church to also sin by failing to openly admit the presence of many in the church offended by their partiality. For others were either led to unwittingly join in with their favoritism, not knowing the presence of the offended, or they were led into deceitfully covering up for the leaders what they did know while deferring their discernment to the leaders.
-----I so abhor their leading innocent people into the sin of favoritism (James 2:9) that I feel everything should be done to stop it and turn them out of their highly sensitive leadership roles. Therefore, I am tempted to believe, also, that your unwillingness to have these men’s names exposed for all to know is also a participation in cover up. But I know that it stops at-the-line short of cover up and deception, because the facts of what these men are doing and their existence are being clearly exposed in the venue the Lord has provided through you. If and when enough men and women decide to demand the leaders show accountability to only the Bible, the whole Bible, the names of those who make up fellowship principles as they go along will be thrown into a bright enough light. They will stop being leaders.
Thank you for what you do towards this, my prayer,
Thank you for helping to expose what they bring from beyond what is written,
Steve Corey
Hey Steve,
I suppose my unwillingness to expose names could be considered a cover-up of sorts. However for me, the blog is about exposing actions and situations in the church, not just my church, but also John and Jane Doe’s church. I think actions speak for themselves, regardless of whether or not there is a name attached. Much of the dysfunction happening in our churches is because everyone’s reading the same books…not to be confused with reading the same Book!
Gail
Gail;
-----Good decision.
Steve Corey
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