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Originally Posted by Matt
1. Elders from outside your locality came to your locality and conducted extra-local church discipline that violated proper family boundaries without your knowledge. (Violation of Local Authority)
Note: Based on your own accounts, this was not the only time this happened. I can think of at least one or two other instances.
Question: Are you trying to say this didn't happen in Dallas? If so, why is it important to you that it didn't happen in Dallas?
Matt
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I would like to raise the possibility the number reported at the meeting is correct, but not all of them were elders. Some at the meeting could have been deacons and others present serving as witnesses. Is it possible that a number present at the meeting were not from Dallas which is why Hope didn't hear about it?
What I object to is usurping the parent's responsibility. Whether it was a concerned brother or sister, they should be speaking with the parents and not the minor. Whatever rebuking is done should be the parents responsibility.
Terry