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Two things that are good takeaways from what you said. Number one, any person who has been violated or abused ought to, as soon as they’re capable, report the offender to a trusted authority and get counseling if possible. Number two, awareness is a great thing when it comes to knowledge of and...

I totally agree with this. If there are victims of the offender in the church who are not able to cope with the trauma then their safety and security should be the higher priority. In addition, one of the modern outcroppings of Ministry is the idea of “cell groups”, which is where smaller...

You present a false dichotomy. It is possible and advisable to do both.

You’re going to spend eternity worshipping with some, you might start working on those implications in the here and now. In the appropriate capital murder sense, yes. For my entire life I have believed that pedophiles and rapist should be castrated, either chemically or otherwise. I believe...

Because just a couple of posts earlier you said “Looks like the death penalty for child molesters as well.” So you clearly seem to believe the death penalty is authorized by Scripture for this offense. If that’s the correct implication (hint: it’s not), then either it’s the church or state...

Do you think that the Church should execute offenders?

Lots and lots of wisdom here, I will revisit this later. We have our last night of VBS this evening and it is super busy as you might expect.

The Dove Awards are a convention for church discipline?

Yeah, I agree with all that, and the church in your video handled that employment situation very poorly. Having said that, there are proper ways for a church to handle offenders who have paid their legal debt to society and genuinely repented of their sin.

You do realize that this notion of forgiveness and church attendance for offenders isn’t unique to IFBs, right? You think the article I linked to was sponsored by an IFB group? You should learn to expand your perspective of thinking beyond the small circle you’ve been in. I would have said that...

Protecting the flock would be letting them know how we were enacting specific plans to prevent what you’re talking about, and at the same time shepherding the whole flock, not just the ones you find acceptable .

You don’t get to decide that for a given local church.

Your question makes no sense. I assume you’re asking if the risk of not having a bulletproof plan that absolutely 100% guarantees that a recurrence never occurs is worth trying to follow Biblical principles for forgiveness and corporate worship. In that scenario of failure the person would be...

I never knowingly have had this scenario in nearly 30 years that I am aware of. You can’t guarantee ANYTHING because you’re not omnipotent or sovereign.

Don’t troll, or you’ll go ignore. You’ve been warned.

Never said that. You’re either dishonest or slow on the uptake. Again, you’re making stuff up (that’s the sanitized version). Now you’re either lying, confused, or both. You struggle with the Biblical concept of forgiveness, and as I said earlier, are in good company. Again, since you dodged...

I’ve already addressed the “risk” via the linked article and policies that would guarantee that while they are in the assembly they would never be allowed to be alone with a child, and they would never NOT have staff assigned to keep an eye on them. Thankfully you’re not in charge of that...

What if he becomes a holocaust denier and starts secretly killing Jews? This “what if” game is fun.

Forgiveness isn’t just applicable to YOUR list of approved sin(s).