A few years ago someone came forward with the best words of wisdom about Brant Baker and his ministry. He understood why I had restored Brant Baker and Shekinah Fellowship to the historical record. At the time his thoughful words had given me some insight into Brant's world from another perspective other than my own. Few people were this understanding and pragmatic...

Today I believe that there are people who have connected and have joined the conversation about Shekinah Fellowship and Brant Baker as a direct result of my own efforts. I could shut down this blog today knowing that something started rolling forward that I got to play a part in forming. Sort of like the wooden forms that hold the concrete in place as it hardens and then are no longer needed afterward, that is how I would describe this blogs history...

Here are those wise words:

 "For such a young man like Brant to be thrust so quickly into such a stressful and high-profile situation produced huge pressures on him, I am sure. He was a frail young man, a recovering homosexual, who came from an unhappy family situation, who needed sources of seasoned guidance, truthful support, and wise counsel. For him to become increasingly isolated as he did was a recipe for disaster.

It also didn't help that many of the other Shekinah ministers begin to hold him in too much awe, thus becoming increasingly disinclined to correct him when he was wrong. His being turned into a celebrity came upon him before he was spiritually ready to handle it--and it destroyed
him."

"This is one of the valuable lessons that I think can be learned from Shekinah. All the members of the Body need each other. Brant needed everybody else, because it was dangerous, to begin with, for such a young xtian to be thrust so quickly into such a stressful, high-profile ministry. Brant had a heart for this ministry, but he also had great weaknesses. In some ways, he was let down by all of us who unduely idolized him.

I don't say this to excuse his sin, by no means, but I say these things because the Church needs to stop forgetting its mistakes, to stop sweeping them under the rug. It needs to remember its mistakes, to truthfully enter them into the historical record, so that perhaps it will begin
to learn from those mistakes. It has to stop covering things up."