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Charles.
Thanks for your note.
As you can appreciate, you're placing me in a difficult
position here. I was intending to give you some details of the
trip I and another Carey elder made to see Malcolm in the hope that it
would set your mind at rest. It was a very good and open visit,
and we were most encouraged about the work there. As a church, we
continue to support Malcolm and I am satisfied that he is not
ecumenical; he is quite happy to affirm the FIEC Statement on Ecumenism.
However, it is obviously quite impossible for me to
provide you with any more detail than that if you're going to put
things on the Internet or in magazine articles. I think it very
important for members of the church where I am serving to feel that
they can trust me to keep matters confidential, and that applies to
Malcolm as much as to anyone else.
I feel, Charles, that you have not acted in the most
helpful way in going into print, knowing as you did that I was
intending to go to see Malcolm in October. I believe that we
could have sorted this out in a far more God-honouring way. I
would like to correspond further with you, but I cannot do so if my
response is going to be used in the way you intend.
Yours in Christ.
James.
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