One thing that abusers in the church are very good at is using Matthew 18 to continue their abuse. Many of them never do anything abusive in front of two or three witnesses. Abusers are rarely stupid enough to leave two or three witnesses. They always know what to say and who to say it to so… Continue reading How Abusers Use (Mis-use) Matthew 18 to Escape Church Discipline. Evidence is not just eyewitness testimony.
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Wise as Serpents: Evil Comes to Eden (Part 2 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)
If evil came to Eden, that perfect paradise where everything had been pronounced "very good" by the Lord, why in the world would we not expect it to come among us today in the church? And yet, professing Christians seem to default to a kind of "willful blindness" to that evil, enabling the wicked and… Continue reading Wise as Serpents: Evil Comes to Eden (Part 2 of a sermon series by Jeff Crippen)
