Evangelical megachurch......hmmmmm.
Oh dear, you’re not REVELING are you???
Jail. Resignations. Hmmm. Not tucked away and hid and protected. Hmmmmmm for decades. Big difference. Although I suspect you won’t see the difference. Does it happen everywhere? Yes. Nobody says it doesn’t. However, in evangelical churches there is a very good chance someone is going to jail. The chances of them being sent to another church to cover up the sin and protect the sinner are slim and the president of the SBC most certainly isn’t implicit in the cover up. Nice try...but what a fail. The chances are really good an evangelical pedo criminal goes to jail. How many of your priests are doing jail time? How many are out of the ministry? Stop covering for the sin of the church. It makes you look bad.
Yes. It was a volunteer the did it not the pastor. The entire board of elders resigned over an issue with the pastor. They should entirely clean house. Anyone that was in a position of leadership should be gone. What I didn’t read is how the volunteer was sent to a different mega church after the cover up by the local church. Nor did I read about 299 other abusers in the same organization in one local ares systematically covered up by higher ups in the organization transferring them to another place to abuse others
There is a big difference between an isolated incident dealt with quickly and an international system of corruption abuse and coverup going on for decades. There is sin everywhere. Whether it is a system side evil and how it is dealt with is the difference
A volunteer at one church does not excuse the widespread evil in an entire organization nor are they anywhere near equivalent
Sobczak, now 24, is serving a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2014 to sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy with special needs at the church and an older boy who was not connected to Willow Creek.
Hmmmm, a PRISON sentence.
Something you never hear about Catholic priests.
This is very sad and I condemn it. But it is extremely limited to one church. They will purge it.
It does not, however, hold a candle to the systematic, worldwide sexual and physical abuse, and coverup by Roman Catholicism, priests, bishops, Cardinals, popes.
... And the denials by Shiite Romans on this board who try to minimize that evil.
Evangelical megachurch......hmmmmm.
Not just "a". "The". The exemplar, the root US-ian evangelical megachurch, if there can be such a thing.
(Hyperbole, yet, but it is pretty darn influential in that crowd.)
Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day--about 3,000 in all.
Acts 2:41
First Megachurch, starting in Acts.
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Credit to AMPU for the original post.
And I think you fail to see the irony.
CATHOLIC megachurch........Hmmmmm
1.2 BILLION and counting was the last I heard.
Hmmmmm..........