"AskPastorWalter"

If "the Refiner" exposes abuse, but "love" covers all sins, whose love is it?   GOD's LOVE - in and through HIS people, towards others!  FIRST, we must RECEIVE it, before we can RELEASE it... Do YOU know someone that has traumatically suffered "abuse" in the church? Are they healed, or are they bitter? A HEALTHY church, is a grace-filled and grace-full "body" that is NOT afraid to lovingly confront and expose "sin", so that NO ABUSE is ever ignored; to "save face", to protect the reputation of the leader, or to keep the issue from actually being addressed! I KNOW of a pastor and his wife, who was the co-pastor, which attempted "to conceal the sexual abuse of a father towards his daughter", in the name "of love"; and they BOTH ending up being prosecuted by the state, for NOT reporting a CRIME! So, "when SIN is a CRIME", don't be super-spiritual!!   THIS is ...