By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. I couldn't believe how our love within the church had been warped beyond recognition by the elders' unscripted will to punish. By their implacable demands for unquestioning obedience. By their pernicious need for superiority and control. They had developed a toxic sense of certainty in their own righteousness, seizing for themselves the role of the ultimate arbiter of divine truth -- and they now seemed wiling to lay waste to anyone who disagreed with them. It was a heinous arrogance and sinfulness that could not be denied.
-- Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow, p. 158-159
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