Several years ago, I didn’t believe a friend when she told me the SBC mishandled issues of sexual abuse. She was insistent I reevaluate my place. I thought I could stay and change the culture. Then I started to follow abuse survivors on Twitter. I started listening.
I couldn’t believe it. So much abuse. So much coverup. So much blatant misogyny. I missed it because I wasn’t in those social media spaces. I had my small group and thought my church was doing the right thing. They were complicit and still are.
If you don’t speak loudly against wrongs, you’re complicit. And there are not a lot of things in this world more heinous than sexual abuse in church. I should have listened a long time ago. Listen to survivors. They’ve been telling you this would happen for so long.
Messengers, this is now up to you to speak out at the annual meeting. There are still practicing pastors in the SBC whose churches haven’t been disfellowshipped that have credible accusations of sexual abuse against them. Do they belong more than Saddleback? #ThisistheSBC
That friend was @ShannonDingle. I’m sorry I didn’t listen so many years ago. You were right. I was wrong. They are still wrong.
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