KENTUCKY
The Courier-Journal
Posted on August 8, 2013 by Peter Smith
The Council of Elders of the Louisville-based Sovereign Grace Ministries is denouncing as a slanderer a former high-ranking official in the denomination who sparked upheaval in the denomination after his 2011 release of internal church documents.
Brent Detwiler of North Carolina, who has been a vocal and persistent critic of the ministry’s leadership, said he would respond on Friday to the charges.
The statement by the elders — who represent local churches in the denomination — defends the church and its former longtime president, C.J. Mahaney, pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville.
Here are excerpts:
“…we believe that Brent Detwiler has repeatedly and grievously slandered our churches and our leaders. We denounce as sinful and unbiblical his determined effort to accuse our brethren. Consequently, we urge our brothers and sisters in Christ to avoid giving audience to Brent Detwiler’s unbiblical speech until such a time that he repents of this ungodly pattern. Such harmful speech is ruinous to the church of God.
“Furthermore, in contradiction to Brent Detwiler’s ongoing statements, we vigorously reiterate our support of C.J. Mahaney as a qualified minister of the gospel….”
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