Recently I’ve been involved with Ken Silva in a matter that I wanted to address privately. Ken decided to go public with that situation, which is his prerogative and right. I want to respect that. Here is the situation as I understand it:
- I contacted Ken to discuss the issue of him presenting me as a Christian Agnostic. I have evidence that is provable where Ken’s claim’s have provable damages to me. I did mention lawyers in attempt to show Ken that I have a case of provable libel
- Ken rebuffed my attempts to talk to him.
- I called and emailed Chris Rosebrough of Extreme Theology to see if he would feel comfortable moderating a Three Way Call between Ken and I. As of the writing of this post I have not heard from Ken or Chris.
- Ingrid and Ken posted about how I was attempting to distract Ken from the work God has called him to be a part of.
- I called Ingrid and expressed my frustration with her and especially with Ken because I was attempting to handle this situation Biblically and being frustrated at every turn. Ingrid did not seem comfortable moderating a three way conversation between Ken and I.
- I asked Ken again for contact information to his board and to his local association. My thinking was that I might have to initiate some form of church discipline
- Ken ignored me
- Someone from Ken’s board contacted me. We talked and I presented the situation as I understand it.
- He offered to contact Ken and see if Ken would talk in a three way with us.
- Ken refused.
- All of the activity that has happened on the “Team Politics” post has transpired.
- I contacted Ken’s former DOM and discovered that Ken’s church is no longer considered part of that association.
Now, I will issue the same challenge to Ken again. What of this do you refute or say is inaccurate?
Really though, what matters is what I have learned from this? Here it is.
- I believe I have followed all mandates in the Bible in contacting Ken and attempting to handle this issue as best I can. I believe the Bible now calls me to treat him as an outsider. Interestingly enough there is no mandate in the Bible about not taking an outsider to court. (I’m not doing that but…)
- I have learned that Ken’s reputation in his town is not good.
- I have been sinned against and despite all of Ken’s proclamations about caring about Scripture and the perspicuity of it, he has refused to engage in this matter in a Biblical manner.
- Ken has been mean and nasty and does not represent the Christ of the Scriptures at all.
- In my opinion, Ken does not hold himself accountable to his board in any manner. Why else would he refuse to give me contact information?
- None of 1-5 matter all that much.
- I am leaving CRN.info. The bottom line is that I believe Ken and his friends to be the bottom feeders. I know that’s not all that charitable which is why I’m leaving. I don’t have time to engage a man who hides. I don’t have time engage drive by commenters. I enjoy commenting here and may continue to do so, but at the end of the day I do not believe Ken, Mike R, and John Chisam and the rest are worth my time. They are divisive, angry people who do not show the light they claim to have. If they’re writing is reflective of they believe to be Chistianity, we have fundamentally different views of Scripture
- I am too busy to worry about modern day Pharisees.
So, let the vulture attacks begin about what I said wrong here.
So long, farewell, I’ll see you (some of you) in the sky….






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