Appropriate confidentiality breeds health in a congregation. It fosters
confidence in the leaders, trust within the congregation, and encourages healthy
behavior and accountability that builds up people and strengthens relationships.
Secrecy fosters fear, anxiety, mistrust, gossip, and dysfunction in the
congregation. It destroys accountability and gives space for untruths to develop
which produces many victims. Secrecy affects church growth. Finally secrecy
hampers the congregation’s ability to come before God and allow the Spirit to
move in the midst of the faith community.
Nancy Kauffmann, Denominational Minister for the
Mennonite Church, USA
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