Discernment Ministry Websites Turn the Gun on Themselves

Orginally published on Monday, January 29, 2007 at 1:04 PM
by Todd Rhoades

"There is a campaign of destruction underway in the church. There are lies being passed off as truth; there is slander and gossip and the carnage that is being caused is causing long-term harm to the cause of the Gospel of Christ... I’m talking about the seamy underbelly of what goes on in the name of "discernment ministry."" Those are the words of Ingrid Schlueter of 'Slice' fame. It seems that, once again, she finds herself embralled in controversy...

Those are hardly the words of someone who, herself, is the leader of a ‘discernment ministry’.  But it seems that some of the leading ‘discernment’ websites are in a showdown… with each other.  It seems the same tactics they’ve used against the likes of Rick Warren and Rob Bell are now being used against themselves by other discerning Christians.  And it is getting ugly.

To be honest, I was a regular reader of the Slice (now Christian Research Network) website… only to keep up on what they were slamming each day.  But since Ingrid totally wiped out the Slice website what she said was a new project she’d been working on for a long time (even though she didn’t register the domain name until the day after she shut down the Slice website), I’ve kinda lost track (as have many people, I think).

That’s why I was surprised to find out that they are now fighting with each other.

Ingrid posted a heated commentary on how others in the discrenment camp were upset with someone she likes because he was associating with someone they didn’t like.  They were talking against someone and she thought it was unfair.  (Needless to say, this is/was Slice’s MO each and every day).  But now the tables are turned, and it’s all of a sudden, not so funny.

I only post this because I find it interesting.  Interesting and sad.  Here are some links:

Link to Ingrid’s angry post (which was later deleted from her site)
Another link talking about her post
Yet another link
And yet another

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