Candies and Nuts

From the e-mail bag, before I go on vacation:

Date:  Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Frank Turk"
Subject:  Re: Maybe she should have left
To: "Coram Deo" 

Notes below.  If you want a sound bite for your blog
or whatever, I'm sure you can find a way to position
me in the worst like possible using something from
below.

--- Coram Deo  wrote:

> Frank,
> 
> Long time no speak (mostly due to being banned from
> both your blog & Pyro), 
> but nonetheless I thought I'd share this one with
> you.

Wow.  How nice of you to share.  It's odd that you
don't remember being banned for giving lectures --
that you just say things and don't defend them, and
are unwilling to defend them, and what you say doesn't
lie up to any facts.

Just being banned.  That says something -- about
-you-.  Too bad you don't know what that is.

> I guess your pastor calling the police and having
> you dragged from church in 
> handcuffs is grounds to leave your local church even
> in Frank Turk's world, 
> right?  Or maybe not?

Because you are a reactionary who doesn't read
anything thoroughly, you have apparently missed this
part of the story:

[QUOTE]
According to Mrs. Caskey, she contacted her lawyer and
asked her to represent her in the meeting at the
church. The meeting was not held, and through friends
in the small town of Allen, Caskey was told that “they
were going to try and dismiss me from the church.”
[/QUOTE]

Now, let me ask you -- where, in my recent series of
posts, have I ever advocated going back to a church
that you have been thrown out of?  Anywhere?  List one
post.

Yes: the meeting "was not held".  The fact that they
notified her that they wanted to hold it would be
enough to tell me -- and any reasonable person -- that
she is not wanted there.  However, she never
followed up as to why the meeting wasn't held.  The
article doesn't say why it wasn't held.  But she knew
that she was no longer welcome.

If you can point me to where I said, "go back until
they carry you out in cuffs," you can then have some
royal indignation.  Until then, You are only
demonstrating to me that I did a really smart thing by
banning you.  You're an ignoramus who thinks that he
has some moral high-ground from which to issue edicts.

> Perhaps this gray haired
> saint should just take it up 
> with the elders after she's been sprung from the
> pokey?  Oh, and how about 
> the other members?  Her children, grandchildren and
> other family, her 
> brothers and sisters in the Lord beside whom she's
> faithfully served 
> alongside for 50 years, I guess so long as they're
> not being arrested and 
> dragged from service they ought to just stay put and
> remain under their 
> loving pastor's authority and care, right?

No.  She shouldn't have gone back.  Do I think her
"pastor" did something despicable and vile?  Why yes:
yes I do.  I think he's the villain in this little
morality play.  But he's a villain who has been
enabled by all those who left and so-called elders who
have no way to hold him accountable.

Mrs. Caskey is certainly one victim in this event. 
But it seems rather stupid to go back when one is
being actively told they are not welcome, doesn't it? 
You might paint this as her being persecuted -- and I
might find a way to agree with you about that.  But
isn't that /what we should expect/ when we stand up
for Christ against the world?

When a worldly man takes over a church as pastor, it's
the Gospel against his slice of the world.  We should
expect the world to hate us.

Shouldn't we?

> Coram

To save you some time, I'm going to post this e-mail
to my blog for people's summer reading.    Then, when
you mis-represent me (again) you can link to that post
so people can see the whole conversation.

Happy 4th -- don't handle any lit fireworks.

in Christ,

Frank

UPDATED: here's CoramDeo's reply, via e-mail:

Thanks for taking the time to reply Frank.

I wasn't sure I'd hear back from you,
but the tone and content of your 
response is about what I expected.
I do pray that the Lord will open your 
eyes to the truth someday soon in
order that He might use your not 
inconsiderable gifts for His glory as
opposed to their current wasteful
misuse defending the harlot apostate church.

Enjoy your vacation and God bless.

Coram Deo

What a guy.