...Beating a dead horse, or whatever else you want to call it. Don't bother, I just did. OK, now that that's out of the way I thought I'd blog about something that came to mind today. I was driving south on the 55 earlier today and noticed construction on a lot to the left of the MacArthur exit. The lot, now a hotel in embryo, was formerly the home of a building which housed Faith Community Church; an organization I parted ways with
just over a year ago (1 year, 11 days to be precise).
To get the context of this dead horse you may want to grab a barf bag and scroll down this blog to last July. The specific point I have in mind today has to do with the false accusation Morey made against me last July regarding an email I have yet to see or read (but according to Morey, I had written and disseminated with the worst of intentions). Morey had been accused of doing some very crazy things in the past and until this happened to me I was able to easily dismiss those accusations. However, when something this ridiculous hits the fan and makes a mess all over you all of that other stuff comes back and makes you think: is this guy for real?
If you have read what I posted last July and following then this is likely nothing new. But it needs to be said and not forgotten that Robert Morey has falsely accused me of something. A thing that I never did. A thing, which if I had done, he could easily silence my challenge. And what is my challenge? Morey needs to admit he made up a lie about me out of thin air because I was asking questions that (apparently) made him feel bad, or uncomfortable... or guilty. In an email (sent on 7/17/08) to the elders of FCC Morey wrote:
Glen, you have a big decision to make. You have offended your pastor and need to repair the damage if you want to continue to attend this church. The only biblical way is to seek reconciliation through repentance and humility.
Even more seriously, John Powel has forwarded to me the email you sent to him that seeks to sow discord among the brethren about the air conditioner. A family has informed me of a blog from the apostates that is going around that raises this issue as well as the roof.
The apostate who sent out the email did not produce two or three witnesses required by Scripture who verified any biblical wrong doing. It was just another childish attempt to sow discord among the saints. The fact that you have raised the same issues found in this blog reveals a willingness to be used by Satan and his evil workers. That you went to Powel before coming to any of the elders means that you have engaged in gossip.
It has been one year and eleven days since this accusation was made and I have yet to see this email which was evidently a cog in the big conspiracy wheel that was operating against Morey. A little over a month after Morey's initial accusation was sent to me and my elders at FCC John Powell (the "Powel" Morey referenced) sent me an email (dated 8/19/08). The subject line "
FW: Send to anyone with questions. DENIAL???" The text:
Glenn, are you now denying that you sent this email to all of us?
Regards,
Jon
And below was an email that had been on my blog since
July 29th (at this point, 21 days):
I have a question, if anyone knowns... Is this in response to the promise that we would get the $100,000 for the roof back? I think that i have more questions now than answers... *sigh*
Glenn
What I hadn't noticed until today was that I had mistyped the word "knows." What I had noticed, however, was that I had never denied writing this email. This claim makes no sense when you consider I replied with it to another email and 6 people (including Powell) received it. Also, if I posted it on my blog in the larger context of a chain of emails I had exchanged with Morey and others then why am I being asked if I was now denying that I wrote it?
The answer is simple really. Morey was desperate, caught in a lie. I had done nothing wrong, to him or anyone else. He apparently put Powell up to this to justify his false charge against me. My reply at the time was as follows:
Jon (and others),
Of course I do not deny sending out this letter:
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Hendrickson [mailto:glennhendrickson@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:15 PM
To: Nathaniel Watkins
Cc: Becky Groove; Miguel; Anita; Darren Bobier; Jon Powell
Subject: Re: Send to anyone with questions.
I have a question, if anyone knowns... Is this in response to the promise that we would get the $100,000 for the roof back? I think that i have more questions now than answers... *sigh*
Glenn
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I assume that I am being asked this question in regard to Bob Morey's claim against me. Let's read Morey's assertion in an email from him to me dated July 17th, 2008 "John Powel has forwarded to me the email you sent to him that seeks to sow discord among the brethren about the air conditioner." Consider the following points (as I did) when asking yourself if Morey is describing the email I wrote (and have never once denied having written, btw):
1) Did I send John Powell an email? Yes I send him the above email, but it was not sent only to him. Nate, Becky, Miguel, Anita and Darren also received the same email. Morey's claim sounds as though I sent the email only to John, which is not the case at all. This is not the strongest point but it is worth considering in the big picture.
2) Did I seek to "sow discord among the brethren"? No. It is clear to an objective reader that my 2-sentence-long email did not seek to sow discord among anyone. Read it for what it says, it was a request for knowledge, for raw information. I jokingly added the comment about having more questions than answers because Morey sent out a list of questions rather than an answer to the one question we had. My humor may not have been understood but I did try to indicate that I had changed my tone slightly by adding asterisks around the word "sigh."
3) Did I mention an air-conditioner? Re-read Morey's claim about the email I supposedly wrote to Jon Powell and then re-read the email I quoted above. I did not mention anything about an air-conditioner. It is really that simple.
The email that Morey accused me of having written does not seem to be the email that I actually wrote. Either he has this email in mind and is lying about its content, or he has another email in mind which is fictional altogether. Either way he is lying.
I have nothing to hide and will be happy to correspond with anyone who has questions about these emails or the circumstances surrounding my resigning from FCC. My email address is glennhendrickson@gmail.com.
Now you might expect a reply with rational argumentation offering proof or some kind of rationale for why my 2 sentence email was the same one Morey had in mind when he first accused me on July 17. I would have been delighted to see a reply that challenged the points I offered. I got no such thing. Morey's reply doesn't sound like he read more than the first sentence before writing:
This is the email sent to me by Powell and to which I referred. Now that Glen has acknowledged that I was speaking the truth, he should apologize.
Dr. Bob
And Jon Powell's reply is telling of the kind of person you become under the tutelage of an abusive pastor:
Come one, come all!
What: the Hendickson Memorial Hanging
Where: the rubble of Faith Defenders building, 17601 Fitch, Irvine
When: high noon tomorrow
Why: Glenn is not sure what is "up" and what is "down"
How: by the feet, so that his massive intellect can leak out and he can once again get his bearings
*frown*
*cry*
*smile*
*sigh*
((((((^:
I would like to think that Jon was joking. Obviously he didn't hang me. He probably thought he was being clever in a typical Morey-esque fashion by omitting the "r" in my last name. All of that petty stuff aside, at this point I was done. I wrote back
I'm sorry, did I miss something Jon?
He never replied. I could only imagine what other inappropriate (yet all to common) Faith Defender cursing/name-twisting/etc I would have had to endure had he answered that question.
What strikes me as I read this after a year has gone by is the very different approaches taken to solving an accusation. I was the only person willing to examine ALL of the evidence in context and accept whatever conclusion the evidence led to. On my own I posted the entire email conversation between Morey and myself for all to see because I have nothing to be ashamed of.
Morey, Powell, and the rest of Morey's oft called "moreyites" do have much to be ashamed of. For in contrast to my willingness to rationally discuss this accusation they showed a spirit of mockery. I effect, they said "we're right and you're wrong. Don't confuse me with the evidence." I guess if truth doesn't matter to you you can take a few steps back from the computer screen, squint your eyes, and my emails magically say new and incriminating things!
Enough said about that (I did warn you about the dead horse I'd be beating).
Robert Morey has lied about me and has not offered
any proof to substantiate his claims. The proof, if it existed, would be easy to offer. As easy as posting this mystery email (which actually fits the criteria of his accusation) to his blog. Well, we're at one year and counting.
Morey is a bona fide liar. Thank God he resigned as pastor and closed FCC! I look forward to the day he apologizes to me (and all of the other people he's lied about and abused as a false pastor). Will that day ever come? God only knows. As for me, my conscience is clear and I have nothing to hide.
Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.