Well, yesterday I completed my clergy sexual ethics training for the quadrennium (sigh). I realize its value and I believe it is necessary in our day and age (sigh again), but I am saddened when I think of the resources and time that the Church spends which is not directly related to carrying out the Great Commission. I know we live in litigious times, and I also realize that some clergy are sexual predators, but I also believe that should we (the Church) ever decide to become the people that God calls us to be, many of the struggles we and the world faces would cease to exist. I’ve said this before: if you want to end pornography, abortions, even murder…then we need to introduce people, even clergy persons, to Jesus Christ. He is the answer to their issues; he is the one who convicts; he is the one who heals. We can treat symptoms and people will likely feel better…for a while, but if we want people to experience healing, we’ve got to treat the disease! Oh well, enough preaching…I just wanted you to know I’m back wrestling with charge conference forms, bulletins, and looking forward to Forged in the Fire! I pray you will consider attending with me.
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Back from the mtns. Read this and felt a flash back. Attended sexual ethics training myself. Walked away thinking IF folks did their job RIGHT~ this would be a non issue. If people would consider the song 10,000 years of heaven we're just beginning. It shows we got a job ahead of us.
Yeah, it was put very simply by our leader's father: "If it's not yours, don't touch it." Just following that simple thought might solve most of our problems.
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