Blogging Ottinger (tim)Let’s not get carried away
I have said things that are critical of how my church works, and you find them on this blog. However, I have not said every negative thing you’ve ever heard, nor every negative thing you can imagine. Things are tough enough without anyone adding falsehood and further vilification. Really. I don’t know who you’re helping.
Re: the firing. I’ve asked people not to take sides, but said that I just want to know what’s really going on. I’ve been quick to publish corrections and have tried to incorporate all facts that show up. I am really wanting to escape a few conclusions that bother me very deeply, but seem inevitable.
If you add false rumors, rumors we have never heard, to the list of charges against me and my wife, you will stop me from getting to the truth, and create further hard feelings that will be hard to get over. This is the worse thing I can imagine. I’m hearing some of these rumors for the first time when people I am supposed to have accused falsely ask me why I did it — I’m heartbroken. I can’t imagine it.
Let’s not get carried away. This is confrontation, not war.
