Michael,<br><br>Welcome to the world of the ever increasing population of "disgruntled former members of Christ Church" according to Wilson and Company. I know you have a lot of good friendships at Christ Church and I hope you can maintain them even as Doug Wilson and Company continue to assassinate your good character.<br><br>-Scott<br><br><b><i>Michael <metzler@moscow.com></i></b> wrote: <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City" downloadurl="http://www.5iamas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <!--[if !mso]>
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</o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType> <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></font><font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P></O:P></span></font><br><blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="Section1"><div class="MsoNormal"> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">May 4, 2006<O:P></O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">Michael Metzler<O:P></O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><ST1:ADDRESS u1:st="on"><ST1:STREET u1:st="on">P.O. Box</ST1:STREET>
8282</ST1:ADDRESS></span></font><O:P></O:P> <br> <st1:City w:st="on"><font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><ST1:PLACE u1:st="on"><ST1:CITY u1:st="on">Moscow</ST1:CITY></ST1:PLACE></span></font></st1:City><font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">, <ST1:STATE u1:st="on">ID</ST1:STATE> <ST1:POSTALCODE u1:st="on">83843</ST1:POSTALCODE></span></font><O:P></O:P> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">Dear Michael,<O:P></O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">The session of <ST1:PLACE u1:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME u1:st="on"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> <ST1:PLACETYPE u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></ST1:PLACETYPE></st1:PersonName></ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE> is interested in bringing some level of closure to our interaction with you. Humanly speaking, for a long while now, we’ve obviously ceased to be any pastoral help to you. You appear to have decided to cease worshipping and sharing the Lord’s Supper with us. We had hoped you would join us in trusting in the Spirit’s work in the Supper because any attempts at interaction with you only created more tangled layers of misinterpretations. But now you’ve stopped communing with us. At the same time, you have continued to make public accusations and have declined to submit any of these accusations to us to evaluate in a biblical, accountable, orderly, and responsible manner. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt
BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">We, therefore, propose the following options: either (1) repent wholly and fruitfully, (2) file a charge immediately, or (3) we'll release you from membership.<O:P></O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"> (1) The first option seeks to have you repent immediately for your ongoing disrespect and disorderliness for the manner in which you have created your web of accusations in a public and unaccountable way. This option would include taking down your blog (for your sake), remove yourself from all <ST1:PLACENAME u1:st="on"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName></st1:PersonName> <ST1:PLACETYPE u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></ST1:PLACETYPE></ST1:PLACENAME> disputes, seek forgiveness, and begin attending <ST1:PLACE u1:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME u1:st="on"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> <ST1:PLACETYPE u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></ST1:PLACETYPE></st1:PersonName></ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE> again regularly. Nothing we’ve seen in your correspondence suggests that you are in any way inclined in this direction. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"> Your blog should be much more of an embarrassment to you and your family than to us. A faithful church is supposed to generate this sort of false accusation, and when we compare its bizarre disconnect from reality, it only confirms that we’re doing something right. When we cease
provoking sentimental men, then we will have failed in our calling. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"> You’ve created a web of unfalsifiable accusations and psychological conspiracies in which you are always the victim. With God as our witness, our consciences are clean in regard to your accusations, and we unhesitatingly believe that you will be terribly surprised and ashamed of your claims when we sit as brothers on Judgment Day. You clearly have no idea how far from reality your vision is, and we clearly lack the means of persuading you otherwise. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">(2) The second option urges you to take responsibility for your
accusations, justify them coherently, and allow them to be evaluated and cross-examined in an orderly manner before our session immediately. As always, we’re far from perfect and always open to correction. We now lack, however, the confidence that you are any longer able to discuss these items with us informally, and so this option asks you to justify your accusations carefully and precisely. At the same time, this option includes taking down your blog and removing yourself from other disputes as evidence that you are willing to pursue these issues in an orderly manner. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">(3) Given that you have declined to follow your membership vows to submit to our government and discipline while pursuing purity and peace, as evidenced by your refusal to worship
with us or heed our counsel, this option has us confirming your actions by immediately releasing you from your membership vows and our obligations to you. This is not excommunication or suspension; we believe those would be of no spiritual benefit to you. We wish we could release you in good standing. We count you a brother in need of great help we can’t provide. With this option you would be free from us. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">If you wish, please immediately contact the current moderator, Mike Lawyer, with evidence (e.g., letter of repentance, submitted charge form and justification, your blog down, etc.) that you are pursuing the first or second options. <O:P></O:P></span></font><br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt
BT";">Please feel free to circulate or post this correspondence as you see fit before God.<O:P></O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">For the elders of <ST1:PLACE u1:st="on"><ST1:PLACENAME u1:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName></st1:PersonName> <ST1:PLACETYPE u1:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></ST1:PLACETYPE></st1:place></ST1:PLACENAME></ST1:PLACE> in session, May 4, 2006,<O:P></O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt
BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P> </O:P></span></font> <br> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";">Doug Jones<O:P></O:P></span></font> <font face="GoudyOlSt BT"><span style="font-family: "GoudyOlSt BT";"><O:P></O:P></span></font><br></div></div></blockquote><br>