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Jury Orders Church to Pay Former Pastor $3.7 Million

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  1. Jerome

    Jerome Well-Known Member
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    https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/...d-prairie-church-owes-former-pastor-3-7m.html

    "After a three-day trial in Tarrant County District Court, an 11-person jury ruled that Crossroads must pay a $3.7 million judgment after it found that church leaders violated a legally binding commitment it made to its former executive pastor of 20 years, Mel Dietz, and his wife, Vicki Dietz, who worked as an executive assistant to its senior pastor for nearly two decades."

    "Crossroads...is a non-denominational church....Dietz was involved in commercial and real estate construction in Florida before becoming a pastor. Dietz led Crossroads expansion efforts, including a major expansion in 2002 from its seven acres in Arlington to 146 acres in Grand Prairie, according to documents. 'Mel was insightful enough to buy the mineral rights with the new Grand Prairie property and it included nine natural gas wells that are now actively producing....The royalties from these gas wells funded the supplemental retirement plan.'"

    "In 2011, Crossroads leaders decided to build two new buildings....The price tag was $30 million. However, the church raised only $8 million in pledges. To make up for the shortfall...church elders abandoned plans for one of the two buildings and diverted $4.7 million set aside for the supplemental retirement fund to the building fund."
     
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    His law suit is unbiblical
     
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    So is failing to honor your word.
     
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    Can I fail to honor my word because someone unbiblcally sues me? (Rhetorica question) Neither can I sue in this manner because someone fails to honor their word.

    1Co_6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
     
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    Plenty of wrong to go around on both sides.
     
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    Paul (by inspiration) is NOT forbidding them to sue one another but asking them why and why not suffer the wrong.
    So yes its a rhetorical question and the answer is because they were carnal.

    Had they been spiritual then the "need" to sue would have never happened.
     
    #6 HankD, Sep 18, 2018
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    Mega churches scare me.

    When I think upon what little I know about the growth of Christianity in the 1st and 2nd century--mega churches do not enter my thoughts. House churches--yes. Mega churches--no.

    I believe the Gospel of Christ spreads by individual acts of kindness--one person to another.

    I could be wrong about this--and I am certainly no expert.
     
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    The house churches of the early centuries was not a biblical prescription for how it should be done it was a result of the culture of the day. One may not care for the big churches but how churches were done in the early centuries is not a legitimate reason to dislike them. There is just no mandate there.
     
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    Revmitchell...

    You probably need to edit your reply above. Not the thoughts so much, but you need to add some punctuation. I had to read your reply several times before I thought I understood what you were trying to say.

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    "mandate"?

    Not sure exactly how that political word fits the discussion.

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    Just how does God speak?

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    I am sorry, but you opened the door with the political word "mandate". Now it is up to you to explain what you mean.

    And up to others to comment on what you write.
     
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    A lot of churches scare me. Megas have their problems. Minis seem to have just as many problems. The megas swallow you up in a sea of strange faces. The minis are a tightly garded club that only accept certain people.
     
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