FAST Day 39/40

Fearing the Lord

A Ghost Story of Christmas...and More:

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Learning from the Ghosts of Corruption

Living in the Light of Integrity

Loving Truth, Peace, People 
Join together to support the Into Integrity FAST, 6-26 December 2019

“...you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.”

Illustration by John Leach,  A Christmas Carol, 1843, original edition

Stand up--Speak out--Live in integrity

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

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Dear colleagues,

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We have just done the seventh and final podcast and this blogpost here in Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (see purpose statement at end). Thank you for joining with us!

Our theme is Fearing the Lord: Learn from the Ghosts of Corruption—Live in the Light of Integrity—Love Truth, Peace, and People. This theme also serves to summarize the messages from all seven podcasts-blogposts. 

You can listen to the podcast HERE.

We share three powerful exhortations that can inform our efforts to stand in solidarity; to promote good practice and integrity; and  to bring healing to the international Church Mission Community and to the specific organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud.

--Exhortation 1: Learn from the Ghosts of Corruption. An excerpt from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas in which Scrooge is solemnly warned by Marley’s ghost. Repent while you have time. You still have a chance to influence human matters for good.

--Exhortation 2: Live in the Light of Integrity. The conclusion from Rand Guebert’s Professional Review about the NCI fraud, organizations/networks, and the overlapping wrongful dismissals. It is not too late to act with integrity and to seek redress both publicly and privately.

--Exhortation 3. Love Truth, Peace, and People. Three of the core Scriptures that have guided us over the past 12 years in confronting corruption and living in integrity, from Jesus and Zechariah. Fear God. Seek truth not popularity.  And love truth, peace, and people.

Film trailer HERE.
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"The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.
On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds." 2 Corinthians 10:4

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We Encourage You...

We encourage you to carefully look over the materials featured in this podcast-posting as well as in all seven podcasts-postings during Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (6-26 December). There is much to learn from the lingering ghosts of corruption that continue to haunt and wreak havoc via the lack of disclosures and via the wrongful dismissals addressed in these podcasts-blogposts.

And for those of you who have wrongfully discredited and dismissed us, we want to clearly say this to you: We forgive you. And we ask you to reconsider what you have done. Acknowledge. Apologize. Amend. 

It is crucial for people—and people just like you--to arise in solidarity and call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. Bring the ghosts of the NCI fraud and the related dismissals into the full light. And join in the call for the assistance and integrity of specific organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God’ (2 Chronicles 31:20).

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Thank You!

Thank you to those who joined together with us and people around the world during Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST (6-26 December 2019). We plan to do more Into Integrity podcasts-blogposts in 2020, with updates, resources, and prayer. And also to continue to post updates and resources on the PETRA People Network weblog. Stay tuned!

Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands." Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message

Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, and support. 

Stand up. Speak out. Live in integrity.

Please spread the word.

Kelly and Michèle

prointegritynet@gmail.com

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The purpose of the Into Integrity FAST is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michele. Join with us in FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

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Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people.

See also: 

--links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--links for seven podcasts and blogposts by Kelly for Into Integrity Part One (June 2019) and the seven by Michele and Kelly in Part Two (December 2019)

--links to the latest PETRA People weblog calling for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition. 

The Integrity Petition

Shine the Light-Together!

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