[Vision2020] Banned From Church

[keely emerinemix]

I write this from the perspective of someone who was once told she had a demon of contention, a "shrike" demon, which is different from the demon that someone else said was attacking my back, resulting in considerable pain -- that was a "vampiric spirit" that sought to punish me.  Another elder here in town told me that God never blessed my work in Western Washington and wouldn't bless it here, either, because I was woman operating apart from the authority of my husband.  (He added that if it were up to him, he'd see that I never tried THAT again).  And I still remember when Rev. Jed called me "a slut of Satan" on the University of Arizona campus back in 1980.  

Truly, the gates of Hell shall never prevail against the Church, but the Church itself may well foment its own destruction with crap like this.  

Mercy.

Keely




> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:48:19 -0800
> Subject: [Vision2020] Banned From Church
> 
> Cops arrest and handcuff little old lady banned from church because she
> didn't like the pastor.
> 
> >From the Wall Street Journal at:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2kjjh6
> 
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> 
> Banned From Church
> By Alexandra Alter
> 
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> 
> Listen to 911 call
> http://tinyurl.com/34wx2a
> 
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> 
> On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at
> Allen Baptist Church in southwestern Michigan, Pastor Jason Burrick grabbed
> his cellphone and dialed 911. When a dispatcher answered, the preacher said
> a former congregant was in the sanctuary. "And we need to, um, have her out
> A.S.A.P."
> 
> Half an hour later, 71-year-old Karolyn Caskey, a church member for nearly
> 50 years who had taught Sunday school and regularly donated 10% of her
> pension, was led out by a state trooper and a county sheriff's officer. One
> held her purse and Bible. The other put her in handcuffs. (Listen to the 911
> call)
> 
> The charge was trespassing, but Mrs. Caskey's real offense, in her pastor's
> view, was spiritual. Several months earlier, when she had questioned his
> authority, he'd charged her with spreading "a spirit of cancer and discord"
> and expelled her from the congregation. "I've been shunned," she says.
> 
> Her story reflects a growing movement among some conservative Protestant
> pastors to bring back church discipline, an ancient practice in which
> suspected sinners are privately confronted and then publicly castigated and
> excommunicated if they refuse to repent. While many Christians find such
> practices outdated, pastors in large and small churches across the country
> are expelling members for offenses ranging from adultery and theft to
> gossiping, skipping service and criticizing church leaders.
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "If I wanted to overhear every tedious scrap of brain static rattling around
> in your head, I'd read your blog."
> 
> - Bill Maher
> 
> 
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