I was looking around the web just now when I ran across this...
Beaverton church sues family after they criticize it online
However, given the way many Pentecostal churches act this lawsuit doesn't really surprise me..
Beaverton church sues family after they criticize it online
BEAVERTON, Ore. - A church pastor is suing a mother and daughter for $500,000 because they gave the church bad reviews online.In particular - this church certainly sounds Pentecostal at least in their name and actions..
The family being sued left the church a few years ago and Julie Anne Smith says she and her family were shunned and couldn't understand why. So she went online and wrote Google and DEX reviews of the church and then started a blog.
"I thought, I'm just going to post a review," Smith said. "We do it with restaurants and hotels and whatnot, and I thought, why not do it with this church?"
When the family left the church, Smith says friends were told to end all contact with her.How much of that sounds familiar to things we've went through ourselves or have read here about others going through them? Certainly most of it for me. There are only one or two out of our old church that act like Mrs. Ox and I exist anymore.
"If I went to Costco or any place in town, if I ran into somebody, they would turn their heads and walk the other way," she said. "All we did was asked questions. We just raised concerns. There's no sin in that."
Dissatisfied, she went online to write reviews. Other church members counteracted them with church praise. So Smith started a blog called "Beaverton Grace Bible Church Survivors."
But the pastor claims in the lawsuit he filed that her words, "creepy," "cult," "control tactics," and "spiritual abuse," are defamation.
However, given the way many Pentecostal churches act this lawsuit doesn't really surprise me..
