From http://www.changinguk.freeuk.com/newsletter0009.htm
This letter is from a website that promotes some practices that Bible believing Christians disagree with. The value of this extract is that it is in Mr. Andrews' own words.
"SEPTEMBER 2000, NEWSLETTER EXTRACTS
"Dave Andrews, in his book Christi-anarchy, writes about the time when he was running a certain project and was involved with YWAM - Youth with a Mission. What he has to say reminds me of what I'm trying to explain. In a nutshell, he had become a fly in the ointment of YWAM, and was wiped out so that he would no longer get in the way of the plans of YWAM's Director, Loren. Dave thought he was simply meeting someone called Floyd, a friend and his senior, at an airport, for discussions about whether YWAM would take over his project or not. Floyd wanted this to happen but Dave was resistant to the idea. On arrival at the airport he was confronted by the entire International Council of YWAM. He writes:
"It was a set-up -- an ambush. I was completely taken by surprise. Before I had the chance to recover my wits well enough to defend myself the International Council proceeded to take me apart. They said I was a rebel and, as an unrepentant rebel, would be summarily excommunicated. I said that they misunderstood me, that although I was opposed to the proposed YWAM take-over of the project I'd been running as Floyd had suggested, I had never intended to oppose Floyd himself. They said they understood me better than I understood myself and that, in the very process of disputing the YWAM take-over of this project as Floyd wanted, I had already positioned myself in policy terms, to displace him. I said this was nonsense...
"He went on to explain to them something which infuriated them further - he was keen that leadership should be exerted from the bottom upwards, rather than from the top downwards. This enraged them the more. He adds
"They wouldn't listen. ... They sat there for a while, saying nothing. Then they said something I will never forget. They said it didn't matter what I said, there would be no deal. Because the Lord had shown them that I was a rebel, they couldn't risk my being brought before a meeting of peers lest I incite them to rebellion too.The only thing, they said, the Lord would have them do with a rebel like me was to excommunicate me. So they did this - right there, right then - in the restaurant at the airport. From that moment on I was no longer allowed to be part of the community which, up till then, had been my whole life. I was literally put out of my home ... and everyone else was forbidden to talk to me ...(I) was simply swept out of the way in pursuit of YWAM's corporate plans. ...When people questioned YWAM leaders as to why they'd done what they did they simply replied that it 'was what the Lord told' them to do."