Disenrolled, Disenchanted and Disagreeable

I read a letter yesterday from parents who were withdrawing their children from a particular school. Their complaint, and the majority of their two-page letter, centered on the direction of the school and a diatribe directed at certain church leaders who don't even live in this county. In fact, those men don't even live in this state. Apparently those church leaders have offended these folks in some way and think that they somehow hold sway over the school. It's quite sad, actually.

Further, this family has made blanket charges against these men with no explanation and no evidence. Anybody can do that. Whatever happened to "two or three witnesses?" The Bible is clear in Proverbs 18:17, "The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him." These people have become just what they are accusing these other men of being. Is this the way Christians are supposed to behave? Toward one another? As far as I know, these folks have never met, spent any time with or listened directly to the accused. Furthermore, no church court has tried either of these men, much less found them guilty of anything. My guess is that this family has read the internet accounts from their detractors' rantings, entertained the gossip of others equally as ignorant and made their judgment based on that.

Christians! Where is the grace? This has got to stop! We have to do better than this! We are thus commanded, "Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." - I John 4:11