Last week Pastor Doug Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, did the full Jim Jones by encouraging his followers to “Drink the Kool-Aid.” He titled the blog post Church Membership and Disloyalty and ranted about the smell of disloyalty in the church. He posted this the day before he released the CREC Presiding Ministers’ Report, which apparently rubbed him the wrong way.

Today Jim Wilson, father of Doug Wilson, posted the following to his blog:

Confessing Loyalty As Sin

I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. . . What I mean is this: One of you says, “I follow Paul”; another, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul? (1 Cor. 1:10)

Paul follows up this appeal with information on the divisions in the church. These divisions were not on theology or ecclesiology. The quarrels simply were about loyalties to teachers. To our knowledge, the teachers were even in fellowship with each other. These loyalties were sins and needed to be repented of and forsaken. They caused the disunity.

Today these loyalties are still one of the major causes of church divisions. However, today loyalty is considered a good word; it is a virtue. When it comes to following teachers, however, loyalty is not a virtue. It is a sin. It is hard to confess something as sin when we think it is good. Nevertheless, we must confess this sin.

Posted by James I Wilson at 10:00 AM

Jim Wilson has witnessed the great cloud of wrecked lives that his son leaves in his wake. Countless people have warned him about his despicable son, but he did nothing, and he still does nothing. He will not repudiate his son because he knows that Douglas Wilson will do to him exactly what he has done to everyone else who rebukes him — he’ll destroy him. Jim Wilson used to brag, “If you knock my son down, you better make sure that he doesn’t get back up or you’ll regret it.” The context of this quote is telling. Jim Wilson said this to the CEF elders the night before they tried to removed Douglas Wilson from the ministry. Of course, Jim helped his son pull off the coup the next night. So this blog post is a big nothing burger cooked up by the same man who taught his son how to abuse, deceive, manipulate, and evade responsibility from his youth up.