The 3rd letter submitted by Brother Michael Young to the IA on Sept 3 2012 Part 4

2.3
My involvement in the Pr. YM Incident

In April 2010, I accepted IA chairman Elder Yung Ji Lin’s invitation and began to help the IA in facilitating communication between Elder Lin and Preacher YM Yang. Over the past 29 months, I have had the opportunity to personally participate in, learn about and experience the IA’s administrative procedures in detail. The events described and the evidences presented in this report and its Evidence Section are all genuine; they are not hearsays nor do they consist of falsehoods originated from unidentified sources.

Based on the information presented herewith, I truly feel that the termination of Preacher YM Yang is closely linked to a succession of administrative deficiencies resulting from Elder Lin’s misdeeds and mishandling of this Incident over the past 7 plus years. Due to these administrative lapses, problems that could originally have been fixed ended up becoming much more complex and severe due to administrative mistakes piling upon mistakes, errors snowballed, and matters were distorted, sidetracked and down-played. As a result, the final decisions were regrettable full of mistakes and gross failures.


2.4
Both Preacher Yang and the IA are at fault before God

During the 29 months in which I worked with Elder Lin and Preacher YM Yang,
1) I heard with my own ears both parties’ accounts and explanations of the dispute,
2) I perused with my own eyes over 700 pages of IA documents and materials concerning the Incident, and
3) I personally had witnessed detailed IA administrative procedures and experienced their consequences.

As a result of this, I could not but very candidly tell both of them that their performance (scores) in this Incident was not a question of comparing 100 marks with 0 marks (which would have meant that one party was completely in the right and the other party was completely in the wrong). It was to me more a question of comparing 60 marks with 60 marks (meaning that both parties had erred before God and should humbly confess their sins before God and forgive each other.)