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The following true stories raise serious questions about the integrity of ministers in the message. | The following true stories raise serious questions about the integrity of ministers in the message. | ||
==Covering up sexual abuse== | |||
One message pastor perfectly fits [[Sociopathic Leadership|the definition of a sociopath]]. In many countries in the world, he would have gone to jail. He told several people in his church that he did not know about the sexual abuse of a minor which took place in the church he pastored, until after the boy was over twenty years old. But through the testimony of witnesses (in accordance with the Bible), the board of the church found that the pastor was lying. | |||
He knew about the sexual abuse of the boy within a few months of the abuse beginning and while the boy was only 15 years old. He met with the boy and the abuser separately just two weeks after the boy's 16th birthday. BUT he never told the boy's parents and never told the abuser's husband of what was taking place. Furthermore, he demanded a code of silence from those few people that knew what had taken place. Because this was not handled in a Biblical way, the abuse continued for several more years and the illicit relationship continued for some 10 years. | |||
Why would this pastor be willing to lie and cover up such blatant sexual abuse? | |||
Was it because he had too much spiritual pride to admit that this was going on in his assembly? | |||
Was it because he was afraid it would bring him bad publicity? | |||
Was it because he didn't want to lose the financial support of the minor's family? | |||
Was it because his own family member was the perpetrator? | |||
He should have had enough integrity to do the right thing. His first allegiance should have been to God's Word. He should have cared enough about the souls of these two individuals to handle the situation Biblically. He should have seen to it that they got help rather than covering it up so that the abuses continued. | |||
Are message pastors willing to lie because they are in a religion of lies? It certainly appears so. | |||
:''But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning. I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions without partiality, and to do nothing out of favoritism.<ref>1 Timothy.5.20-21 NIV</ref> | |||
==Lies about a pastor== | ==Lies about a pastor== | ||