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Praying for the Review Panels
0 CommentsDave Harvey, Acting President of Sovereign Grace Ministries, posted the following on the “Plant & Build” blog yesterday, and we wanted to repost it here and ask that you join us in prayer. —Covenant Life Pastors
This week Bryce Thomas and the review panels completed the testimony phase of the evaluation for the allegations that Brent Detwiler brought against C.J. I know that this process is important to everyone who cares about C.J. and what happens in and with Sovereign Grace Ministries. Now the three review panels will begin deliberating on the information before them so that they can deliver reports on their findings later in December.
I’d like to invite you to pray with me about this. Here are the things that I’m praying for:
- Pray for clarity to emerge from all the materials (Brent’s documents, testimony from this week, etc.) that are now being sorted through.
- Pray for Bryce Thomas, the independent facilitator who has already served so well this past week. His job continues as he guides the committees of men who haven’t done this before to handle their tasks in a consistent and God-glorifying way.
- Pray for the three committees—men who have accepted a sobering responsibility to address the charges that have been brought against C.J. Pray for “wisdom from above” (James 3:17) in their conversations and deliberations over the next couple of weeks.
- Pray for all who have taken time to participate through their testimony. We are so grateful that many accepted the invitation to come and provide their perspective.
- Pray for CJ and his family, who are humbly cooperating with this extensive review of his actions and decisions. C.J. wants to see what God has for him in this. He has patiently prepared to appear before all three panels and remains eager to hear their findings.
And, if you have some time when you’re done with that, pray for me. There is a lot going on that needs my attention, but I want most of all to live out the passage preached at our local church last week from 1 Thessalonians 5:18: “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”