Oh Lord! Help me with the words to write! Christians must make a point not to chase away people from God’s Church. Yes! I know people are innocent until proven guilty. BUT! I have been reporting news for ages, and I have never seen so much ugly news happening in so many Churches in America! All that sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, SBC and other denominations makes me sick! I could start a crime page on the Church! Too many are showing an unbelieving world what it wants to see from Christians!
93% of sex offenders describe themselves as religious or very religious. Abusers distort a child’s faith to abuse them. Abusers weaponize a child’s innocence, trust, guilt, shame, love, and faith. Faith and Child Abuse
The Christian Post Reports
Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter
An 86-year-old Baptist pastor from South Carolina is out on bond after having been arrested last month on 30 felony charges related to multiple incidents during his ministry in Virginia decades ago, including taking “indecent liberties with a child.”
Albert Benjamin Wharton was arrested by deputies with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 8 at his home in Pickens County, South Carolina, with the help of the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI, according to local FOX Carolina.
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What are the Biblical Qualifications of a Pastor?
From Got Questions:
The biblical qualifications of pastor are outlined in two primary New Testament passages, 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus1:5–9. There are three terms used interchangeably in the New Testament to refer the highest office in a church: elder, overseer, and pastor (which means “shepherd”) all refer to the same office.
First Timothy 3:1–7 contains the biblical qualifications for a pastor: “Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.” More Here
