Gossip? Slander? Only his elders should comment on Steve Lawson’s sin?
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Jon Harris
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
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Gossip? Slander? Only his elders should comment on Steve Lawson’s sin?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys just wanted to really quickly respond to some pushback. Can you believe that? I'm getting pushback online. |
| 0:17.0 | By the way, I'm on the Hudson River if you can see if you're watching. I'm collecting some firewood. |
| 0:22.0 | My wife wanted to have a bonfire. I'm going to be at the men's retreat. I'm going to be having my own bonfire with the guys up there. But she wanted one and the driftwood is so good for that. So I thought this is a beautiful spot. I'll just do a little video here. |
| 0:34.0 | A little bit of a nature talk. So I'm getting some pushback, mostly from people who |
| 0:38.9 | didn't watch the podcast yesterday, so what good is this video going to do they're not going to watch |
| 0:43.7 | this maybe they will I'll put it on X long and short of it is John you shouldn't be |
| 0:49.0 | talking about Steve Lawson's sin you're not as pastor you're not as elder and you don't have biblical |
| 0:56.3 | authority it's is biblically resolved you're gossiping you're |
| 0:59.6 | slandering so this might not answer everyone's gripe, but let me just attempt real quick to give you a few thoughts that might make you see it in a different perspective. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't think this is biblically resolved, okay? That's one of the things someone said on Twitter. |
| 1:15.0 | The idea that a man who helped such authoritative |
| 1:16.9 | and influential positions in the church |
| 1:18.6 | and parrochurch ministries can simply be disappeared |
| 1:21.5 | without hardly an explanation puts unnecessary pressure and |
| 1:25.4 | suspicion on those ministries. That includes ministries that are connected |
| 1:29.2 | to churches like Grace to you which is connected to Grace Community Church, Master's Seminary which is connected to Grace Community Church, |
| 1:32.8 | Master's Seminary which is connected to Grace Community Church. |
| 1:35.4 | This was a sin. |
| 1:38.0 | It wasn't an inappropriate thing that it wasn't what fully, what was initially said by the elders of Steve Lawson's |
| 1:45.5 | church and if all these ministries wanted to meet out a punishment to Steve |
| 1:49.3 | Lawson without naming the crime there is no basis for others to be warned via 1st Timothy 520 and |
| 1:56.1 | there is no pretext for the Gentiles there is a pretext I should say for the |
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