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How do you handle the news of attacks and controversy when you see smoke but no fire and accusations are abounding about your church?

Here is some practical advice. When there are lies flying about mixed with enough truths that everything gets so confusing, always go back to what you do know. What do you know? That the bedrock of Scripture never changes and addresses everything that concerns us including this. Stand there. What else do you know? God is who He says He is and He does what He says He will do. Stand on those promises.

That is the bedrock, but what else is helpful when all is murky? Stand on what you already know consistently over time, of the characters and ways of the ones being attacked. You may not know the attackers or their lives, but you at least know what manner of men are here before you. If they have proven themselves over and over again, that they stand on the principles of God’s Word, and if something is not right that involves them, they will want to do everything they can to make it right. So, remember the character of the people involved and remember the Biblical way of viewing things, that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Continue reading Where to stand →