In your rant, you treated our leaders and our entire community with contempt. As followers of Christ we are the church and as such afforded dignity; you went beyond questioning our direction, but insulted our mission and focus and accused us of ignoring the poor. This contempt was based on an uninformed misinterpretation of abbreviated meeting notes. It was something like taking someone's PowerPoint slides for a presentation you did not attend, acting as if you understood the context, intention, and meaning, then proceeding to rip apart the presenter and the community to which he was speaking. My wife and I would call that rude and hurtful, not to mention completely unwarranted.
The responses to your rant have been a very gentle, gracious, and apparently much-needed kick in the butt. An apology is certainly in order; to Eric for sure, but also to the entire Village.
For what it's worth to you, we hope God meets you in your circumstances. You are more than welcome in our community and we hope that you would be able to take advantage of that bus line to whatever new building God provides for us.
Respectfully yours,
Ryan and Andrea McCulley |