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Mohler, Dever, Duncan, Carson, Taylor, DeYoung, Aiken Support of C.J. Mahaney
Well, statements of support have been issued by the elite regarding the drawn out scandal that is Sovereign Grace Ministries.
D. A. Carson, Justin Taylor and Kevin DeYoung have issued a statementsupporting their friend C. J. Mahaney, while Al Mohler, Mark Dever, and Ligon Duncan have issued a similar statement expressing their love for and confidence in C J. Sovereign Grace Ministries is currently undergoing criminal investigations with charges ranging from obstruction of justice to rape. There is a mountain of child abuse and molestation charges. The details of the current, amended lawsuit is sickening to say the least.
As for those at TGC, et. al., who have remained silent for so long on such horrendous accusations? I’m almost at a lost for words. Two come to mind: Cherry-pickers. Wait. Two more: Politically correct. No, wait. Oh, never mind, I won’t say that.
Some things I’d like to say – in love of course – to these men whose silence served no purpose but their own are perhaps summed up best by Tammy Wynette. Pay especial attention to that first line….yeah, that’s a good start for these men….
Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You’ll have bad times
And he’ll have good times
Doing things that you don’t understand
But if you love him you’ll forgive him
Even though he’s hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
‘Cause after all he’s just a man
Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man
And tell the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man
I’ve read the court filing and it is utterly sickening. If Mahaney knew about these things, he should not only be sued into the ground but he should also spend quite a bit of time in prison.
The alleged actions of the defendants is utterly reprehensible and they should be punished by the civil magistrates to the maximum possible extent.
Thanks Joel–will reblog this post haste. No pun intended.
Reblogged this on Paul's Passing Thoughts.
Joel, Whats up with the broken link on the T4G statement? Did they pull it down?
They pulled it down, and changed it. Here’s the link, corrected (so to speak) http://t4g.org/statement/
They took the statement off facebook after 95 comments almost all of which were upset about their position. Many identified themselves as Reformed. Everything deleted.
Except some got the screen shots. This is not going over well even with some of the Reformed which I count as a blessing.
What they failed to mention in their statement is that SGM/Mahaney used the 1st Amendment as their defense for not reporting the molestations and rapes of children. So there is some cognitive dissonance with Mohler, Dever and Duncan’s position on this. On one hand they cannot teach that pastors should call the police and on the other, say Mahaney is vindicated because by using the 1st Amendment as their defense, he has admitted SGM/PDI did not call the authorities. One reason might be because some victim families defied the pastors admonition to not call the police and let them handle it and in those cases some were convicted and spent time in prison. The victims claim SGM helped a perp with legal fees, etc. The bottom line is we know there were lots of molestations. Some are still coming forward and the FBI is involved in investigating now.
In any event, the problem was widespread in SGM showing us a systemic polity in dealing with such issues and for some reason, it was pretty widespread at PDI/SGM.
I am heartend to see that many in the Reformed movement are finally speaking up.
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Albert Mohler speaks:
“Both men had credible knowledge that young boys were being sexually abused, and neither did anything effective to stop it. Most crucially, neither man did what they should have done within minutes of hearing the first report — contact law enforcement immediately.”
Oh, wait…he said this about Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky in regard to the child sexual abuse at Penn State.
I guess the standard for coaches is different than the one for pastors.
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The priority at T4G and TGC is, always has been, and always will be unity, and especially unity at the pastoral level. They seem to be celebratng over what amounts to nothing more than a technicality.(statuate of limitations etc.) Many a mobster has been set free on those. A black cloud still looms over SGM regardless of this court decision or the Mohler, Dever, Duncan, Carson, Taylor, DeYoung, Aiken support comments. I am encouraged however by the overall negative response their comments recieved. I don’t know how much this statement applies here, but unity should never be at the expense of truth, justice or the suffering of innocents.
It’s gettin’ worse: http://thouarttheman.org/2013/11/08/mohler-attempts-to-resuscitate-mahaneys-conference-career/
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