several years ago there was a person in the position of Pioneer in the congregation I was attending. This person had a very dark side, had a way of manipulating others to think what this person wanted them to. This person also had a very shady past and apparantly had not totally put on that new personality and done away with all of the old. While in position of pioneer committed a gross serious sin that involved a close associate of mine. I did not find out about this until 10 yrs after the fact. But the second person involved had been eated up for 10 yrs with guilt and trying to keep this person from getting others involved also. Finally when it came out in the open, the second person involved was no longer around and I heard from a newly baptized person at that hall that this pioneer had tried to get (he/she) involved in the same type of sin that had been comitted 10 yrs prior with that second individual. She was very upset and took the matter to the elders who said they had never had any problems with this person...LIE!!!!!!!!!!......because right before the second person involved disapeared (he/she) told the elders what had happened and all blame was put on that individual..NOT THE PIONEER.
This upset me to the point that I could not go out in service, because the third person was someone I studied with and I felt like I had told them all these wonderful things about the org. and now this has happened. So when the CO came for his visit I told him I had lost all joy for the field service because how can I tell people to come into this wonderful Org when I know what is happening. I told him that I am not out to get that pioneer disfellowshiped because I dont know if there was any repentance in anykind of meeting with the elders but how can that person still hold a position when others know about what happened. He said he would check on it and after a week came back and told me that the serious sin was committed about 10 yrs prior and this new incident that I just brought to his attention was about 4 yrs old. so they are too old to dicipline this pioneer for......
PLEASE....where in the bible does it say there is a statute of limitation on serious sin