I do realize that this kind of dough affects the futures of these individuals and their families. While the paltry 5 or 6 thousand that we might be cheated out of, and therefore unable to subsidies our own retirements or our children’s education is a drop in the bucket these three men might actually have to split the 10 million three ways leaving each family a meager 3 million and change that they will have to stretch to make ends meet.

On a final note I can only say that for all the stone casting these guys have done at the institutional church through their books and podcasts and blogs, they don’t seem to be able to hold out a testimony all that much improved.

It would seem to me that greed outside the institutional church is doing just fine…….

This is a hard one to figure out, it will be interesting to see the results. What would I do? I can’t imagine being in either position. Although I just recently read The Shack, I’m familiar with the players involved, having listened to quite a few episodes of The God Journey from the very beginning, before Wayne and Brad were at all involved with the development of the novel. One can see that Wayne and Brad (Windblown Media) and Paul Young had become close friends, and that Young considered them to have a huge share in the responsibility for getting the book to its final state and then published. Money didn’t seem to ever be an issue in the beginning. Eventually they went from selling them out of a garage to getting a big distribution deal.

Young has a lot of money from this book already, as presumably Windblown must have. I guess the question is, what led Young to figure he was owed a lot more, that Windblown was ripping him off? And at what point did he decide that a lawsuit was the only way to deal with it?

If I was being sued for a huge amount that I didn’t have, and didn’t believe I was liable for, maybe I would counter-sue, as a strategic move.
I’m saddened by this, as I believe they really were friends before. I don’t a lot about Young, except for some background info via the Shack promo material, and an interview on The God Journey. Having read stuff by Wayne Jacobsen, and listened to quite a few of his podcasts and some teaching material, I don’t believe he is a crook. I pray this all gets sorted out…

To answer your question, my answer is no. You don’t allow them to get away. You can publicly scold them after attempting to reconcile the issue amongst believers. Unless you believe Paul’s and Jesus’ instructions are irrelevant to the discussion. Sometimes obedience in certain areas makes us look like fools, but being a fool for Jesus is infinitely better than being a pawn for Satan.