Here is the part Artiste removed from the above post.Truth wrote:Below is what was censured by Artiste for 3ABN_Defender. This was 3ABN_Defenders reply #88 at AT.
Who is "he" here? Danny Shelton?
No. I am sorry "he" is you, Johann. They kept telling you it was about 3ABN and God's ministry, and doing the right thing but you kept making it all about Linda, and how Danny was wrong and how Linda had been wronged, so had to believe they were lying and it was really all about Danny as far as they were concerned, in order to keep justifying yourself and your view.
Instead of the post above in blue, Artiste put in RED LETTERS after removing 3ABN_Defender's post:
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My comment about this: What is interesting is that they demand supposed "respect" for Johann but he himself can be disrespectful all he wants towards others in what he writes, thereby not representing the SDA Church as he should, since he is a retired SDA minister. It's like DO WHAT WE SAY but NOT WHAT WE DO. Just great eh?
Truth,He was supposed to represent the 3ABN ministry in Europe and help promote the ministry and God's work. Obviously he could not do so when he chose personality over principles. You cannot represent and promote a ministry while you are criticizing, finding fault with and accusing them because you prefer one employee over another and are acting and thinking with bias and partiality.
That conflict is what caused him the loss of his job, it is what caused him to give bad advice, advice that a SDA minister, especially one with 50 yrs experience shouldn't give, such as not following the church manual on conflicts and resolutions and discipline in the church.
When he lost his objectivity he went down the wrong path in the opinion of many, myself included. He wasn't able to be objective or look at all subjectively then and I don't trust him to do that now.
I think the difference between their thinking and ours is that we try to recognize there is a right and wrong way to say things, and so we may moderate "how" things are said and the methods used by those we disagree with, but we try to allow their idea, belief, view,to be expressed, so that we can answer and rebut it or whatever whereas they are more concerned about "what is said" regardless of "how it is said" Their thinking allows them to condone and allow the rudest and most disrespectful comments from those they agree with and yet delete any comment or reply that they disagree with and don't want to hear no matter how respectfully or carefully we try to post as they deem all such disagreement with themselves as "inappropriate".
In reply to your post above, here is the next reply I posted to Artiste which was also deleted:
My apologies, Artiste. I was aware Johann was a administrator here, but I did not intend to disrespect him in that role or position, and did not realize that speaking of his employment history and the reasons for his separation from the 3ABN ministry or how his activities are viewed in other circles was disrespecting his position here. I still believe I was only exercising my free speech and right to comment and provide the other side of the story.3ABN_Defender
Re: Motion re: MidCountry Bank records
« Reply #100 on: February 12, 2010, 10:52:36 AM »
3ABN_Defender on February 10, 2010, 05:33:57 AM wrote:He certainly has a right to give his point of view and opinion on what he personally saw or experienced. I have never had a problem with that. As to whether it is valid or not, well that depends on whether the facts support it, and looking at what he has to say in context. One must also consider what all (not just Johann) observed and experienced and what their testimony is about those same things.Artiste on February 09, 2010, 01:33:24 PM wrote:Junebug, Pastor Johann has spent 50 years of ministry in the Seventh-day Adventist church in seven different countries; he has the perspective to make valid observations about what he observed going on at 3ABN while he was there.Junebug on February 09, 2010, 09:31:42 AM wrote: Johann, for being a retired Pastor, what you said above was really not very representative.
My problem with Johann's testimony is that he really has very little to say about what he observed while at 3abn, as he was very rarely even there. Most of what he has to say came from Linda's telling him these things while he was far off in another country. he says he was in constant contact. So what? He didn't witness these things himself. He simply believed what she told him and acted on it, and repeated them. He also refused to believe Walt Thompson, Danny Shelton or anyone else as he interpreted all they had to say and do based on what Linda and even Darrell Mundall told him.
He has made a case and tells the story of being fired for not saying what Danny Shelton told him to, that may be true to a fault. Danny Shelton told him that it wasn't about he, Danny Shelton and it wasn't about Linda Shelton it was about the ministry of 3ABN and putting the ministry and what was right first. He didn't and still doesn't believe that.
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This is my observation and I believe it to be just as valid and appropriate as Artiste trusts that Johann's is.
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If you need to block my posting privileges in an effort to keep him on that pedestal. Do what you must. I quite understand your need to do so even while disagreeing with you. You of course can censor me here, but cannot silence me or anyone else, and won't. I will just post it all on the other forum, say it via email, and say it off the internet as well for those who prefer their news unbiased unedited and complete.
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