https://world.wng.org/2018/12/hard_times_at_harvest

Even if half these things were true… why is this guy a pastor anywhere, let alone employed working with people.

1. So they admit to making many changes based on the criticisms of the “attack bloggers?” Can’t we infer the so called “attack bloggers” were right in at least some of their criticisms because you’re making changes based on the criticisms?

2. “consultation among Christian leaders outside our church family” – Who? Mark Driscoll? Tullian Tchividjian? Ravi Zacharias?

3. “protect our church family.” If your church is a family – it’s dysfunctional. Why are you disowning and suing your family once they leave or bring up concerns and criticisms? Bad dad. Reminds me of how Mark Driscoll abandoned his church “family” once they wanted him to be accountable and not just Lord and Master. That’s the expected result of a dysfunctional family when the abused and manipulated work up enough courage to confront the tyrant.

Thanks to this lawsuit, people are paying attention to this story. Those same people will be watching ECFA’s response. ECFA is smart enough to know that Roys’ World article will go public at some point, highlighting how HBC is likely not in compliance with ECFA standards. HBC assumes they are bullet-proof because they use Capin Crouse as their auditors. They also replaced their last CFO Fred Adams (who resigned Dec 2017) with Jeff Sharda, a Partner at Capin Crouse, to help keep those clean opinions coming.

The reality is that under Capin Crouse, HBC’s internal controls were so lax that an IT guy was able to steal at least $270K from them and likely far more since a fraud audit is just now underway which will extend the scope of review beyond the one year that yielded the $270K in theft. The law firm hired to oversee this isn’t using Capin Crouse. That doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in Capin Crouse or HBC.

Bland Garvey, likewise, bestowed clean opinions on GFA for almost a decade. After Warren Throckmorton started covering the problems at GFA, Bland Garvey wisely disengaged GFA and hired one of the top litigators in DFW to represent them.

ECFA only stays in business for as long as their seal of approval stands for something. I hope they think long and hard about this.

Thanks to this lawsuit, people are paying attention to this story. Those same people will be watching ECFA’s response. ECFA is smart enough to know that Roys’ World article will go public at some point, highlighting how HBC is likely not in compliance with ECFA standards. HBC assumes they are bullet-proof because they use Capin Crouse as their auditors. They also replaced their last CFO Fred Adams (who resigned Dec 2017) with Jeff Sharda, a Partner at Capin Crouse, to help keep those clean opinions coming.

The reality is that under Capin Crouse, HBC’s internal controls were so lax that an IT guy was able to steal at least $270K from them and likely far more since a fraud audit is just now underway which will extend the scope of review beyond the one year that yielded the $270K in theft. The law firm hired to oversee this isn’t using Capin Crouse. That doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in Capin Crouse or HBC.

Bland Garvey, likewise, bestowed clean opinions on GFA for almost a decade. After Warren Throckmorton started covering the problems at GFA, Bland Garvey wisely disengaged GFA and hired one of the top litigators in DFW to represent them.

ECFA only stays in business for as long as their seal of approval stands for something. I hope they think long and hard about this.