Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60075. The cover-up culture that has come to light across parts of the charismatic and independent church world over the last decade is one of the saddest things I have had to think about as a minister. Case after case has followed the same shape, and the shape is what interests me here. I…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60061. Church abuse scandals are the objection I find hardest to answer, not because the answer is complicated but because the objection is so often justified. Somebody has been hurt, badly, by people who claimed to speak for God, and now they are asking me why they should trust an institution that did that…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 6062. Secret sin is the sin nobody knows about except you and God. It has no witnesses, no consequences that anyone can trace, and no cost that shows up on the surface of your life. That is exactly what makes it so dangerous. Every believer I have known well has had some version of…