Just learned about this Substack through The Wartburg Watch, and it looks wonderful. So glad you are shining a light on the issue of sex offenders in the church and how churches respond.
“Acknowledge that you are in this position because you are ill-equipped and you need third party help, and make sure the goal of acquiring that help is to serve Jesus through truth, transparency and ministering to the vulnerable, not to protect the legal entity of your local church. Doing this robs it of the very identity you are trying to protect: a church afraid of the truth is not a church of Jesus Christ.”
So good. One of the best, succinct explanations I’ve read for why churches need third party, truly independent investigations.
Just learned about this Substack through The Wartburg Watch, and it looks wonderful. So glad you are shining a light on the issue of sex offenders in the church and how churches respond.
“Acknowledge that you are in this position because you are ill-equipped and you need third party help, and make sure the goal of acquiring that help is to serve Jesus through truth, transparency and ministering to the vulnerable, not to protect the legal entity of your local church. Doing this robs it of the very identity you are trying to protect: a church afraid of the truth is not a church of Jesus Christ.”
So good. One of the best, succinct explanations I’ve read for why churches need third party, truly independent investigations.