I am very thankful that Beth Moore is speaking out on sexual abuse.
CBN NEWS:
Over the years Beth Moore has often talked about surviving childhood sexual abuse. But for the first time she reveals her father as her abuser.
“I’m not sure anything impacts your life more than your protector being your perpetrator,” she said. “In other words, my father was the person on earth that I could trust the least. My home was not safe.”
CBN News anchor Charlene Aaron recently sat down with Christian leader Beth Moore to discuss her new memoir, All My Knotted Up Life. Here’s the powerful interview.
Why do so many Americans have such little faith in the Church:
I have reported more and more on evil coming out of the Church than ever before in my news career. It has gotten horrible. As one of my Pastor friends has said now for years, “Much of the Church has become like the world.” That old saying is, this evil is showing an unbelieving world just what it wants to see from Christians. We, as the body of Christ, have to do better folks! One of the most sickening acts of evil took place in the Southern Baptist Church: Report Here
How to perverts ever get into a position at a Church?
Former youth pastor Daniel Kellan Mayfield, who was arrested last month for allegedly filming girls as young as 14 in the bathroom of a South Carolina church, faces 24 new charges of criminal sexual conducts as investigators say he also recorded women in bridal parties changing their clothes. Mayfield now faces 70 total charges. Read more.
From Lifeway Research:
Trust in the church or organized religion, while down from 2021, is up just slightly from 31% in 2022 to 32% in 2023.
By Aaron Earls
Most institutions in the U.S. are facing a crisis of trust, and the church is not immune.
Twelve of the 16 institutions included in Gallup’s most recent survey on institutional trust are within three percentage points of their all-time low, including the church.
The average level of Americans’ confidence in major institutions hit its lowest point this year at 26%. After holding steady at around 40% through the 1980s and 90s, the average dropped from 43% in 2004 to 26% in 2003. More Here
