VI. Where Does the Church go from Here?
Based on the actual administrative lapses of the IA stated in this document, the reader will
be able to understand that these lapses have caused the IA
1) to be untruthful, unfair and unjust in many of its decisions, an
2) to commit the serious error of wronging many people, even to the extent of causing harm to many innocent members and workers. In order to correct its errant ways and to operate according to the teachings of God once again, the IA ought to:
6.1
Reinstate Preacher YM Yang’s position as IA EXCO member immediately and await
the decision of the WDC concerning this matter.
Reason:
-The IA EXCO overstepped its authority and mandate and violated the IA’s
constitution and its rules and regulations in terminating Preacher YM Yang’s position
as IA EXCO member during its meeting held in Korea from March 22-23, 2012.
-The procedural rules/constitution of the International Assembly of the True Jesus
Church, Chapter 1, Section 4, and Article 10 clearly stipulates that taking disciplinary
action against IA EXCO members and their removal from office is the responsibility
of the WDC.
6.2
Establish a commission of inquiry to
1) investigate and understand the deficiencies in the IA’s administrative operations and the effect of these deficiencies on the church and on Pr. YM Yang, and
2) make reparation to all injured parties.
The examples and evidence cited in this report clearly prove that, due to conflicts of
interest under the leadership of Elder Lin, the IA has lost its capacity for self examination,
self-discipline and self-governance. For the sake of
1. the history of the church,
2. restoring the good name of the members and workers who have been falsely
accused or wronged by Elder Lin, and
3. allowing the church to return to its former state of purity, honesty, godliness
and loving-kindness, so that it can once again be pleasing to God, the church
needs to overcome all its difficulties and establish an independent commission
of inquiry to find out the truth.
The responsibilities of such an independent commission should minimally include:
a. investigating the errors and deficiencies in the administrative operations of the IA
that occurred during Elder Lin’s term of office,
b. verifying the above errors and deficiencies as cited in this report along with the
accompanying evidence the report provided,
c. revealing the effects these deficiencies have had on the IA’s handling of the Pr.
YM Yang Incident,
d. re-investigating and handling the case of Preacher YM Yang in an honest, fair and
just manner according to the teachings of the Bible,
e. reporting the findings of the inquiry and the evidence on which the findings were
based to the WDC, and
f. reforming the IA’s administrative operations based on the lessons learn report to
be issued by the commission of inquiry.
6.3
Basic operating principles of the commission of inquiry
a. The objective of the commission of inquiry would be to solve the issues in hand
and not to discipline the people involved.
b. The commission of inquiry should examine material provided by all parties
involved, including the injured parties as stated in Section 4.7 of this report. With
a heart of truthfulness, loving-kindness and tolerance, it should
--i. examine each of the original issues —the original dispute between Elder
Lin and Preacher Yang,
--ii. identify and classify all the derived / distorted issues arising from the
IA’s administrative lapses or from other human factors,
--iii. list all original and derived/distorted issues in chronological order,
--iv. reset all the derived/distorted issues to zero (i.e. ignore and remove the
distorted issues and focus on the original issues),
--v. carefully discuss and resolve all the original issues with Elder Lin and Pr. YM Yang under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, with the mediation of senior members.
c. Once the commission of inquiry has determined
---1) the nature and cause of each
IA administrative deficiency,
---2) the effect these deficiencies have had on the IA
and the church, and
---3) ways of coordinating, discussing and resolving matters, it
should leave it at that; there is no need to make things difficult for the divine
workers who have make mistakes in their weakness.
d. When it has properly understood the causes, nature and consequences of the IA’s
administrative deficiencies, the commission of inquiry should try to find a
solution for every mistake that has been made, and also create a new
administrative structure and a new set of operational procedures for the IA.
Note: The commission of inquiry’s plans for improvements to the administrative operations of
the IA should include designing and conducting on-the-job training workshops for IA
administrative workers, so that the technical knowledge required by the staff to perform
their duties may be systematically imparted to them, and that they may be taught correct
and effective methods of handling the necessary administrative operations. This is so that
every divine worker may have a work ethic that is in keeping with God’s teachings, that
with the Lord’s guidance and blessing, the work of the IA will once again flourish when
everyone labors in one accord for Him.
e. The findings and recommendations of the commission of inquiry (including the
process by which the dispute between Elder Lin and Pr. YM Yang was resolved,
and the recommendations for the improvement of the organizational structure and
administrative operations of the IA) should be presented to the WDC as important
reference material for WDC’s meeting.
In this way, the painful path travelled by the church over the past few years will not
have been in vain. God will have taught us a lesson through the Pr. YM Yang
Incident and allowed the church to be more mature, more united, more thankful, more
loving and better equipped to fulfil the holy work that He has entrusted to us in these
last days.
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