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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...

4 SEXUAL SIN: A BIBLICAL EXEGESIS The doctrine of a minister must credit his life, and his life adorn his doctrine Jean Daille We have made a case for distinguishing sins within the body from those without. This raises the questions: ‘Are not all sins against the body—be they drunkenness, drug abuse, or sexual sin—equally heinous? Why single out sexual sins?’ How are sexual sins really different? That question has been considered by a number of prominent exegetes, and most agree that a comparison
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