This is not for those of you who even in the most faithful and biblical of Churches, with the most loving and gentle, upright, honest, unaccusable people, would have merited having your person thrown out and told not to come near its members. Thankfully this does not appear to be what's common among most on the forum.
For those of you who legitimately brought what GC insulting re-casts as mere "concerns", who have been labelled treacherously as "proud" by GC leadership for failing to deign to their usurptation of God's authority and justification of defying Him and His word, this precious little sound bite might be interest:
One of the oddest features of our day is the equation of Biblical faithfulness with pride. Let a man stand with the Word, over against the fitful currents of culture [including Church practical and ideological culture], and he is damned as "proud."
The Word itself makes the opposite connection. It is the man (or woman) who wanders off from God's commandments, after his own fancies and notions, who is arrogant (Psalm 119:21, 85). By contrast, the genuinely humble person is the one who trembles at God's Word (Isaiah 66:2).
To all you in GC leadership out there, that last stanza is all yours. As are the comments that follow this quote in the source of it, and in context of the whole post, which is here:
http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2009/02/king-uzziah-and-women.htmlThere, I bore my gifts. (Maybe if we just don't let up it might start cracking those hard hearts of theirs.)
