To Group Leaders and Owners

Recently I started using the social media platform called MeWe. This platform is similar to Facebook in that it has groups and chat rooms, but not like Facebook in censorship. Sounds great right!? But the more I use this platform I have come to witness some of the worst acting people I have ever seen. 

That’s the way of the world you might be saying to yourself, but when I come across groups that are discussing the Bible, and claiming to be Catholics or Christians acting in such a way, I get very upset by it. When a Christian group of any kind allows such things as; slander, racism, name calling, and abusive language to flow freely like a toxic ditch full of bacteria and fungus, it becomes a tool of satan. How? Because these people who claim to represent Christ as believers in Him, cause others to stumble in their faith, or cause unforgiveness to grow in the hearts of His people towards others. Therefore keeping them from being forgiven themselves. 

The Lord warned us about such people and called them “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. That metaphor is coming from the Good Shepherd Himself. Another thing He spoke of was hired hands (the shepherd’s workers) by saying this, “The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.” 

This brings me to address group owners of MeWe groups (or any group online or offline). If you have a group where Christ, or His gospel, is being misrepresented and His sheep are being attacked, and choose not to chases away the “wolves” that come into your group, the blood of those who lose their faith is on your hands. 

If you owned property, and someone gets hurt or even killed on your land because of something like a wild animal, are you not responsible for that injury or death? Even in the law of Moses there are laws that speak to these types of issues.

“If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.” Exodus 21:35-36

When a group has been abandoned by its owner, then the wise and right thing to do is transfer the group to another that will tend the flock there. To an owner that sees the wolves, and removes them quickly before harm is done to the Good Shepherds flock. 

I know of one particular group on MeWe where it has a Pastor that owns it. He has forsaken the group and went his way. Is he still responsible for the things that are happening in the group? Yes he is. For he created a group where the Good Shepherd could be poorly misrepresented before the world, and even other believers. He has become a stumbling block for those that are seeking salvation, and to those in Christ already.

What did the Good Shepherd say about those who are stumbling blocks to others?

“Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!” Matthew 18:7

When He says “Woe” He means it. For He does not lie.

So if you are an owner of a group, or even an administrator that is not active in a group, it wise for you to transfer the “flock” to someone who will take care of it properly.

I hope that you all will take this to heart and act upon it. For we who are called by His name never want to become a stumbling block to someone else, or get in the Lords way when He is reaching out for lost sheep.