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Why have I decided to write this open letter?
a. Having grown up in the church, it is my view that to criticize the church and pass judgment on others is the most ungodly and unloving thing that one can do.
b. It is impossible to describe the inner pain and sorrow of witnessing the church that
1) I have loved deeply,
2) I have served faithfully for more than 60 years, and
3) is considered to be the most precious in my life being ravaged and destroyed by others.
For this reason, over the past two years, I wrote several reports to Elder Lin and the IA Executive Committee, alerting them and beseeched them to face up to the IA’s administrative lapses that I have witnessed. Unfortunately, I never received any substantive responses.
c. During the IA EXCO meeting held in Seoul, Korea on March 23, 2012, Elder Lin abused his authority as chair of the meeting: 1) he blocked all the reports that I had presented to him and the IA EXCO; 2) without having the matter discussed or voted by the IA EXCO members, Elder Lin arrived by himself at the verdict that all my reports were not objective, and 3) in the end, citing this reason that he had come up with by himself, informing me that the IA EXCO had refused to study and deal with any of my complaints and reports of admonition.
d. Furthermore, after the March 23, 2012 IA EXCO meeting, Elder Lin fabricated meeting summaries based on his above-mentioned prejudiced views and 1) packaged them up as official IA correspondences, 2) sent me two sets of minutes that were completely inaccurate with respect to the facts of the same meeting, and 3) used these IA documents to bear false witness, discredit and falsely accuse me who had offered him advice.
e. Elder Yung Ji Lin’s dishonest, unjust, unfair and unrighteous practices have caused i. the IA to regard wrong as right, black as white, and evil as good, ii. the true church to lose her most precious and most fundamental quality of being “true” iii. the church to suffer unprecedented and irreparable harm iv. the IA to lose its honesty, justice and righteousness v. the church of the true God and all her members to be shamed.
f. Because I cannot bear to see the church, the household of God, being damaged and destructed to such an extent, I have decided to be the man who comes across a breach in the levee and sounds the alarm, so that other more capable and able-bodied members of the village (the church) may come to help rescue this village that is surrounded by flood waters.
g. In order to seek the help of more spiritual senior members who would be able to speak to the IA with greater authority and to help to solve this challenge, I have had no choice but to openly give an account here of the administrative deficiencies and lapses in the IA that I have personally experienced and seen. It is hoped that, by this means, these administrative deficiencies may be corrected so that the true church may once again be run according to Biblical teachings, be pleasing to God and be blessed by Him.
h. Everything described in this paper has been submitted and reported to the IA by me over the course of the past two and a half years. Thus, the contents of this paper have long been in the public domain; making this report public is not a spur of the moment plan to expose the secrets and private matters of others
i. This report is rather long; this is because it is intended here to provide its readers and the church with a complete, accurate, detailed, complete and independent body of evidence for the church’s historical records and for the use of any future commission of inquiry.
Note 1: The main purpose of this document is to explore the question of what the church can learn from the matter of Pr. YM Yang’s termination. Since Preacher Yang has already been terminated by the IA and has been expelled from the IA organization, the things that he has done will not be included within the scope of discussion of the present document.
Note 2: In order to conduct a review of the past and to plan for the future, I have had to cite actual examples (this includes having had to make mention of the relevant people, matters, events, materials, documents, etc.) in this document, so as to be able to discuss and explain the lapses in the IA’s administrative operations, and to assess how these lapses have 1) hindered and harmed innocent members and holy workers, and 2) affected and damaged the church.
Note 3: I greatly regret the fact that this document is likely to cause the parties concerned much inconvenience. In order to minimize the inconvenience caused, I presented Elder Lin and the other IA EXCO members with a preliminary draft of the document before finalizing it, and invited them to proofread and correct it as necessary. As of this writing, I have not received any comment from Elder Lin nor from the IA EXCO
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