David,
Thank you for you commnets. I did not mean by my comments that there was any regret at the way God leads. (You should see the crazy path the Lord has put me on.) My brother-in-law is quite content that he where God wants him. I was only using the situation as an example of what can happen where is no oversight. In this case, there was open acknowledgement (after the fact) that the pastor, the session of his church and even the presbytery, clearly failed to support or shepherd him, and some even went so far as to apologize for their failure.

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J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

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