What to Make of James MacDonald Suing Julie Roys

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🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A Chicagoland megachurch pastor has sued a Christian media personality and two former church-members-turned-potential-whistleblowers for defamation. According to Harvest Bible Chapel pastor James McDonald, former Moody Radio host Julie Roys and bloggers Ryan Mahoney and Scott Bryant published and helped publicize false and damaging financial information about the congregation. But should Christians so at odds actually be taking each other to court? In many cases, no, says Ken Sande, the founder of Peacemaker Ministries and the current president of Relational Wisdom 360. “Typically, conflict between Christians involves some foundation of sin,” said Sande. “Lawyers can dress that up in legal terms, but what it really comes down to in 99 percent of the cases is sin. Keeping one’s word. Slandering. False representation. Bitterness. Anger. Unforgiveness. Those are all spiritual issues that the church has jurisdiction over and a judge can’t touch.” Sande joined associate digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss conflict resolution—or lack thereof—when it comes to Christians, the power of seeing people confess sin to one another, and how these processes play out in a #MeToo era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.5	It's Wednesday, October 31st, and this is quick to listen, where we set aside hashtags and hot takes discuss a major cultural event.
0:47.3	On today's show, Ken Sandy joins us to discuss when Christians take each other to court.
0:59.8	Thank you. discuss when Christians take each other to court. Thanks for joining us this week.
1:02.0	I'm Morgan Lee, Associate Digital Media producer here at Christianity Today, and I'm with my co-host, our editor-in-chief, Mark Alley.
1:10.0	Hey.
1:10.8	Good morning, Mark. Well, you editor-in-chief, Mark Ellie. Hey.
1:11.5	Good morning, Mark.
1:13.5	Well, you're a sports fan.
1:14.9	Help my confusion.
1:19.8	Up to last Sunday, was it baseball season, football season, or basketball season?
1:21.0	And hockey season.
1:23.6	Some people would say it's called the greatest time of the year.
1:24.4	Oh, my gosh. It's the most confusing time of the year.
1:26.5	There's nothing that's usually exclusive to have multiple sports going on at the same time.
1:30.3	Let me play the old age card here and say when I was a boy.
1:35.3	Well, baseball and football did overlap a little bit.
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