After over 20 years in the church I left after a divorce and found a wonderful evangelical church. My ex husband and I knew for years how unqualified because of sin and character flaws our GC pastor was. After I was gone from the church for over a year I remarried a man in ministry at a Bible College. My ex pastor told my former church to shun me. He never told me and I only found out through my exhusband. He told people that my current church parternered with him to do that and I made 6 families leave when I left. LIES!!!!!!! I was never shunned at my new church. The elder of my new church was the president of the Bible college my husband worked at. The Bible college president told me that he told my expastor to go in front of the church and tell them that was not true. Of course he did not. Also the 6 families he claimed I had made leave the church when I did, all documented and sent a letter to another GC elder that they had left way before I did--not because of me but character issues with the elder. I learned what I had feared---elders protect sins of other elders.
I'm so very sorry do hear what happened to you.
I see the same thing in GCx leadership. They plesu men not God.
