To students of the Shepherd's Chapel
Undoubtedly, the followers of Arnold Murray's teaching in the Shepherds Chapel will not be happy with my analysis of his work. Please understand that I am not trying to misrepresent any doctrine or teaching from the Shepherds Chapel. Therefore, if you read anything in this section that is factually inaccurate, please e-mail me and let me know. Also, in your correction please provide documentation, otherwise your effort will be wasted. Too many people simply email me with their opinions and expect me to change my website accordingly. I am not interested in opinions, only the facts. If possible, please provide the whole body of text of any newsletters or material in which the "correction" is contained. Once proven, I will happily change my website.
I suspect that some of you who call Arnold Murray your pastor will simply tell me to read the statement of faith on his website. I have done this. To be honest, the statement of faith found there is not sufficiently detailed to answer various issues sufficiently, the resurrection of Christ being an important one.
Also, I am very open to receiving any documentation and information regarding the Shepherd's Chapel teaching on any subject. I strongly desire to represent your Church accurately. Of course, it does not mean that I will agree with everything taught by Arnold Murray and will compare what he says and teaches against scripture. But at least I honestly hope to accurately analyze the teachings of the Shepherds Chapel.
Furthermore, this statement dated 7/1/01, serves another purpose. I suspect that many people in the Shepherd's Chapel will tell others that I am spreading lies, trying to misrepresent the facts, that I am not a Christian, etc. So, I am officially asking that the followers of Arnold Murray to simply email me corrections, per the request in the first paragraph above; I want to be accurate. If I find SC websites, discussion groups, etc., who mention CARM and state that I am purposely being deceptive, purposely misrepresenting the facts, I will take offense to that and seek to correct them since it is not true. In no way do I purposely misrepresent anyone. Second, if followers of Shepherd's Chapel are going to complain, yet offer no correction, then should they really complain? It is one thing to say I'm wrong. It is another to publicly pronounce I am wrong, spread gossip, and yet do nothing to make correction in my analysis.
I'm asking to be corrected.
Matt Slick
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