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Wayne Baker
Born in Lethbridge, Alberta. Father was Roman Catholic, and mother was Baptist. With Father on the road, it was agreed the children would be raised Baptist. I am a conservative Evangelical Protesta...view moreBorn in Lethbridge, Alberta. Father was Roman Catholic, and mother was Baptist. With Father on the road, it was agreed the children would be raised Baptist. I am a conservative Evangelical Protestant Christian. I went to high school in Red Deer, Alberta, got a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta and a Master of Divinity degree from GGBTS in Mill Valley, California.
Having had several cases where churches disciplined myself, usually denying there was any discipline, I have considered the right, duty, and obligations of churches for discipline. The Prelude dealing with the topic of sexual misconduct may be replaced, if sales warrant with a new book The Contract and the Youth Pastor. It is referred to several times, and is mentioned at the end with considerations for consequences.
Other matters have been dealt with more like I have been. Action taken, usually meaning they have heard complaints, found you guilty—not offering you a chance to respond—and sentenced. The sentence is passed on using lies, saying it is church policy, or some other line. In the most severe case, I was invited to a meeting and told I was forbidden to work with children. If you can tell me why, then we will both know. I do not know why despite attempts to find out. They contradicted themselves. In the last attempt, I was basically told reasons with statements that contradicted themselves. In other words, in the book Second Foundation by Asimov, the summary the secretaries would give you would be blank pages. Their response to a written letter, stating I understand, I ignore your advice as long as I attend this church with three ways one could obey, it was met with, well, you are ignoring our advice. No explanation of the advice given. I guess that means they meant the advice I defined, with suicide being one alternative. They informed a subsequent church they would not have me work with women or children, claimed to have given me everything in writing meaning: (a) I took notes, my notes they gave me, or (b) we took no minutes of the meeting with you. These minutes we did not take were given to you. Figure the two options out as to their statement “I was given everything in writing.”
The book is fictional. Some may be exaggerations of actual events, but most has been my vivid imagination with ideas from a book I read long ago, The Cardinal, and a series of books by Randy Singer. The characters are all purely fiction and not based on any person I know but born in my fertile imagination.view less