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<p class="deck">Powerbrokers blocking access</p>
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<p class="text">I was reading an essay the other day in which I encountered a reference to a book by William Mellor and Dick M. Carpenter II called <em><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3crA8Zp" class="">Bottleneckers</a></strong></em>.</p><a href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31cd803b-b81f-4eb8-a3f7-e0bc62e27f63_7768x5179.jpeg" target="_blank" class="text"></a> <a href="https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31cd803b-b81f-4eb8-a3f7-e0bc62e27f63_7768x5179.jpeg" target="_blank" class="text"></a><p class="text">Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@dylu?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" class="">Jacek Dylag</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/s/photos/traffic-jam?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" class="">Unsplash</a></p>
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<p class="text">In said book a bottlenecker is defined as</p>
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<p class="text">a person who advocates for the creation or perpetuation of government regulation, particularly an occupational license, to restrict entry his or her occupation, thereby accruing an economic advantage without providing a benefit to consumers.</p>
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<p class="text">Well, then, that got my mind rolling about church authorities who are bottleneckers. That is, they follow the protocols and procedures to a T, and play the part of lawyers executing laws and precedents and canons and protocols, and they fail to listen to the (mostly) women with allegations, and the discount stories of the abused, physically and spiritually, because their stories don’t fit their decisions as to what fits – so they follow laws mostly designed to protect those in authority. The wounded resisters experience these church authorities as bottleneckers because they are.</p>
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<p class="text">That is, they think they know what needs to be known for the church while there are lay folks in the trenches with suggestions and ideas that are not only worthy of consideration but are worthy of implementing to carry on the ministry to those in the church and in the community. These too are bottleneckers slowing down the traffic. So slow that some people take the first exit.</p>
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<p class="text">That is, they label Du Mez, Tisby, and Barr “deconstructors,” which they are not, in order to smear them instead of offering context-sensitive readings of their own studies or their conclusions. And while smearing them Leeman fails to recognize that the rise of so-called “biblical complementarians” ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/november/beware-bottleneckers.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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