Well, while I can understand and sympathize with a lot of pain and frustration being caused by the ever-increasing collateral damage of local churches failing to meet the needs of their local neighborhoods, Tek is actually right that in most cases digital services aren't qualified or capable for making up for their loss, and holding him personally accountable for the failures of much larger and better resourced institutions isn't very fair or going to change the reality that he's neither equipped for or called to take on that kind of role and responsibility here.
He's literally not biblically qualified to provide what you're asking for, and as much as he cares about you and wants to be considerate of your views, he can't place your wishes above God's will. While the gamut of individual or corporately-sponsored Christian "influencers" may be growing in their popularity as advances in technology make it easier to reach large numbers of people with less cost and effort and with pretty big payback if they can get people to choose them as a recipient for their tithing budget, they also come with less training, responsibility, and commitment than church-sponsored services, plus they further drain resources and relationships from local communities as people can more comfortably stay home to satisfy themselves instead of doing the hard but important and biblically-mandated work of interacting with their neighbors, in exchange for sending their money (if they even do that rather than just expecting spiritual services for free) to other - likely richer - economies elsewhere instead of supporting and investing in their own.
At the very least, if there are really are no local institutions someone can in conscience support and fellowship with, then the next recommendable step is to look for options of remote services offered by churches elsewhere, since they'll have more vetting and accountability and spiritual foundation than just any random person who can set up a broadcasting platform on the internet. And maybe something the CGA can do, while it's not a church in itself to be a qualified dispenser of spiritual advice directly, maybe we could host a thread of links to official church-sponsored resources elsewhere to help aid people in finding things they need that are beyond our scope to provide.
I'm not certain what you think I am expecting from Tek except him holding to all the values he professes to have and not just the Leftist ones. Again on multiple occasions he has posted Leftist, political, subjects, and defended them, but he, of himself, will not do the same for the Conservative ones he says he has. The idea that Leftist values are uncontroversial and offend no one is absurd. I don't know his motivations, a spirit of fear, a love of something more than God, but one should expect the world to hate us John 15:18-27. Tek called for praying for the Haitians in Springfield, but, not the citizens of Springfield, and, of himself, would never call for praying for the unborn (or at least has not on the Discord or Forums). There was a man who privately supported the Texas heartbeat law who got fired from his job for it. Two Christians simply lamented it on our Discord, I'm sure there are even pro-choice people who would agree with this. Then Tek jumps in saying he is pro-life and almost immediately shuts the conversation down because it was too controversial, while no one was complaining or disagreeing. He did the very thing they were lamenting, and again at the same time he has zero problem posting Leftist things and defending them.
Tek has no problem banning porn tags or language, which is great, I agree, but he had to be pushed into banning the LGBT tag on one of our mods which is also obscene, and I got a debate, and I, not him, was the one who ended up asking the person to remove it. If the concept is we don't want to drive away people you shouldn't be banning porn and language either. Where is he getting his values from God and the Bible, or the world?
In the story of the good Samaritan the Religious people passed on by. It's not loving our neighbor to pass on by when our neighbor is in trouble. If an innocent person was being attacked and Tek came upon this scene and did nothing to stop the attacker, because he was afraid of pushing them away from Christ, how do you think the victim would feel? Which would Christ have us do pass by or physically defend them? If one isn't willing to defend the innocent they have every right to reject who we claim to represent, Christ. It's like saying one shouldn't openly support Israel's right to exist, the right of Jews to live, lest we offend Far Leftists, Muslims, and anti-Semites. If we abandon women to men claiming to be women, to have years of their work destroyed, or be beaten up, or ogled, or raped (and there is actual evidence of this) they should have every right to tell us to take our Christianity and... do a rudeness with it. By the standard of being unable to speak out against politics Hitler was Christian and you can't condemn his actions lest you push Neo-nazis away from Christ. I've seen the Pro-Hamas protester screaming Hitler was right but no don't correct her lest you push her away from Christ. That path leads to abandoning innocent people to death and point in case has a direct tie in to this thread in who you vote for. Being silent while people destroy themselves and others is not loving your neighbor and more importantly it's not loving God. It's not being cruel to speak the truth, it's cruel withholding it and letting them condemn themselves and others in this world and the next.
As a side note I've attempted to talk to way more trolls and rule breakers on TF2 than Tek. I'm perfectly fine with that, serve no pearls before swine, tolerating too much ruins the server, and the amount of mercy one has the time for varies, but, I say this lest people think I am unmerciful or impatient. I did not come to my conclusions about Tek without years of observation, questions, many excuses made for him, prayer, and attempts to communicate with him which came to not.
Also we have already had people leave because Tek didn't hold to the values he professed so you lose people either way. Popular or unpopular Christians should be pursuing the will of God first not shallow converts or filling the pews by being flavorless salt.
As far as "the Church" if you are supposed to eventually avoid them Matthew 18:15-17 goes beyond the Church. I would also argue the "Church" is not simply a building or an organization but Christians as the body of Christ
https://www.gotquestions.org/body-of-Christ.html . If we are supposed to rebuke our brother is our brother a fellow believer in Christ or only the guy that sits next to us in the pew? Furthermore if the logic is we aren't supposed to rebuke each other none of you should be able to rebuke me. Regardless my main goal here is to note I have already tried privately to resolve this and follow the Bible in doing so.
To get people to truly accept Christ is the ultimate goal but one does not do that by lying to people nor should we pass up getting what good one can if salvation is far away. Christ demands all Matthew 22:37, Matthew 16:24, and my favorite verse Matthew 10:34-38 Christ brings division. If one's parents and children are secondary to Christ how much less must a person's love for sin be. Nor should one do evil to get converts as Paul became all things but always held God's law first 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 . I also understand the concept of milk 1 Corinthians 3:1-3 but being silent on sin is something Christians should never do. The old testament is not silent on condemning child sacrifice to Moloch, it tore Israel apart, Christians of the first century were not silent on the Romans "exposing" newborns and murdering them, nor should we be silent on abortion
https://www.gotquestions.org/child-sacrifice.html . For a pro-life person to give a Kamala an out (one which in particular is impossible to confirm) as she was explicitly promoting abortion is antithetical to that value. One should not lie, I will not lie for any person political candidate or otherwise, but to defend a sin, knowing it's a sin, in progress is wrong.
By all means be polite, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves, but I find the concept of purposely hiding Christian values to get converts anathema to the way, THE TRUTH, and the life. It abolishes the law which Christ Himself fulfilled Matthew 5:17-20. Accepting Christ shouldn't be a shady contract where only afterwards you find out you have to give up everything for Him. It is from guilt, shame, and the Holy Spirit, that repentance comes without which there can be no salvation nor freedom. Stick and Carrot, Hell and Heaven, it takes both to be saved.
(I could also go into how we have ceded shame to LGBT and how it's been super effective for them getting converts but it's another topic (the CDC released a report that 1 in 5 high school kids are now LGBT).)
