Jordan Hall, Eastern Montana, and Ravenous Wolves The Garrett Ashley Mullet Show

Jordan “JD” Hall has been removed from office at Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana. He is now under church discipline and has been separated from his pulpit, and also his platform at Protestia.com.

Even as I talk about his downfall, I find myself not happy to be proven right about it. Actually, I am sad to see that so many continue following and embracing Hall to the last, and that so many others who knew better have preferred to keep quiet their concerns about him for fear of repercussions and blowback.

The trouble with being proven right about Hall is that the thing I said would happen has happened, and will happen even more. That is, the causes Hall has associated himself with he has not brought credibility to, nor have they given him credibility in the minds of those who know better. But Hall has tarnished the validity and rightness of good causes he's touched.

Plenty who know better have kept on allying themselves with him, and have called refusals to join in where they did so – like I stated before we moved to Montana – juvenile and childish. And for what? Because Hall “is a fighter.”

Well, so is a mad dog. And that’s what I told them he was for a long time. But they didn’t want to hear it because he was their mad dog. Now he’s bitten them. So you can see how well that worked out.

But there is also a frustration I feel at the hypocrisy of those who were happy to sick Hall on their political opponents inside and outside the church, seizing on any loose bit of gossip about them, then inflating such through conjecture and hyperbole, then roundly pronouncing anathemas and sending them off to Hell and ill repute in the minds of his followers.

Yet in moments like this where there is so much more a guarded treatment of the scandal about Hall, a very obvious partiality is apparent. And I sincerely do not understand how that inconsistency is supposed to be respectable.

This man bullied the 15-year-old son of Ergun Caner to the point of suicide, and caused men and women I knew in Sidney when we lived there to literally fear for their lives.

As my eldest son will be 15 next month, I shudder that Hall’s time as pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church was not concluded years ago. His nature has been known a long time! But some didn’t want to believe their eyes and ears. And others were simply too afraid to stop him. Or else they thought they needed him too much.

This man caused a former co-worker of mine who attended his church – even moved his family across the country to attend Hall’s church – to call me up on my way home from work one day to ask if I could meet him and his wife at their home.

I’ll never forget the fear in their eyes when they asked me to alert the FBI if they suddenly disappeared. Whether this was paranoia on their part, I don’t know. But the church should be a place you can go to tell the authorities about out-of-control civil authorities. It should never be the other way around.

The fact that more than one person I’ve known who attended Fellowship Baptist Church left on such terms that they sincerely expressed a fear for their physical safety disturbs me greatly - no less when I consider that other discernment ministry bloggers and celebrity pastors have associated themselves with Hall over the years, and lent him credibility by their association.

But this here is what is broken in the American church today, as well as in too many pockets of American society. Unfortunately that includes rural Eastern Montana where many of the long-time inhabitants learned long ago that there can be a darker and more frightening aspect to living a long way from civilization.

Don’t misunderstand me. I like fighters. But without apology I prefer fighters who are fighting what is evil and defending what is good, not those who either cannot or will not distinguish between the two when their hubris and ambition get in the way.


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