CCP4: On Pastors and Moral Failings

In this week’s conversation between Dr. James Emery White and co-host Alexis Drye, they discuss the seeming litany of Christian leaders who have succumbed to moral failures and what this is doing to the Christian faith and our culture.

Episode Links

To go a little deeper on this topic, Dr. White wrote several blogs related to this conversation that will be really helpful to dig into. On the discussion of the shadow lives so many lead and how you can evaluate the work that was done in ministry read “Evaluating the Fruit Test.” On the importance of building sexual fences read “Build the Fence!” The phrase “there but by the grace of God go I” is so common but so inadequate. Find out why in a blog titled “Why Leaders are Falling.” And finally, a blog that explores whether it’s possible for someone to be restored to ministry after a moral failing titled “When a Pastor Falls, What Then?”

Dr. White also discussed the importance of talking about issues like this openly within the church. There are two message series he delivered at Mecklenburg Community Church that would be worth a listen: “#MeToo” and “Getting Grace Right.”

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”Australian megachurch co-founder resigns over complaints of unwelcome behavior to women”

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