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Rick Hurst
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Date Posted: 10:04:13 01/27/04 Tue
It was also in the commentary of the 20th that Roy said that his disappointment with the boards was that he was hoping it would be as it was in his home. A constant dynamic of interchange and exchange between intelligent bright people, a sharing and hearing of new ideas, points, discussion, debate, point, counterpoint and yes, even disagreement all the while with the TV on, perhaps, for the kids to watch cartoons. The impression I got was that this is an every day expreience in his home and one he believes is most edifying to the participants and part of everyday life. Think for a moment, when the apostles were with Jesus, I am sure that almost everyday was filled morning, noon and night to a constant, important and edifying ongoing discussion and exchange about things true, pure, good and holy. It had to have been that way for the most part. This is what Roy says, I believe, he has in his home and if the boards were up to his expectations, when he looked in, I do not believe that what you suggested would be a problem.
Now follow this for a moment. Roy likes to use the illustration of a guest in his home who uninvitedly, walks up to and helps himself to Roy's refrigerator. Roy promptly throws that rude guest out on his ear, at least until some future repentance is shown. The problem with Roy's board was two fold, in my opinion. 1. Non-family types were coming in to the home and walking up to the refrigerator and helping themselves in front of the eyes of the family in the living room who had thier arms tied behind thier backs, unable to do anything to get rid of the rude guest and 2. unfortunately, though technically right in what they were observing, many in the family did not have the spiritual maturity to deal gracefuly with the rude unwanted guests and descended into bitching and school yard tactics of rude interchanges and personal attacks out of a sense of impotence to do anything about the strangers in the home.
Clearly, the lack of oversight and moderating factor was a problem, just as Roy is the moderator in his own home with protocols and bounds of behavior guests are expected to follow or be ejected. So too should the board have had such safeguards if Roy was expecting it to function like his own home. But so too, the family, who were suppose to be of Roy, were dealing imperfectly with imperfect people, to the embarrassment of Roy, at least when he looked in, and caused Roy to shut it done lest the name of the FHU be sullied. (his term)
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