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The Stain that Stays: The Church’s Response to Sexual Misconduct of Its Leaders is unavailable, but you can change that!

Around the world sexual misconduct is knocking ministers from their ministry. As the numbers grow it is crucial to know what should happen to them for their good and for the good of the Church. Should they return, repentant, to their pulpits within weeks or months—or should they return at all? John Armstrong has seen a lot in a pastoral ministry that has spanned over twenty years. When it comes...

said their churches found out about the sexual misconduct. I find these results even more disheartening than any of the previous data. Let me explain.6 The Hidden Sin Almost one in five pastors (remember, this was still in 1988) confessed to sexual misconduct of some kind, with one in eight admitting adultery. Of this amazingly high number of unfaithful ministers only 4 in 100 were found out by their local church! Most of us hear stories of fallen pastors regularly. Yet these are only a very small
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