If you mishandle a disclosure, if you back the wrong person, it can be life and death. For that victim, for the victims who will follow. This isn't a game. You are playing with people's lives when you don't train yourself on abuse prevention and response. It's all our problem.

"At the end of the day, I know what I know. I cannot ‘un-know’ it, and I am in fact accountable before God for this knowledge, and if you have labored mightily to read this far, you are now accountable before God for it as well.”

Emily A. Pastor Yes. It’s often overlooked that when we have hobbies, time to ourselves, projects, and careers, we’re teaching our children. We’re modeling healthy emotional stability, self respect, self care, and time management.

As a result of telling about John MacArthur's cover-up of abuse & punishing victims, Eileen's financial support has dropped dramatically. Friends, this should not be. Let's reverse this today! She's doing amazing work! 2/2 ripeforharvest.org/eileen-taylor/

Fawn’s article is a fair, thorough treatment of this topic. Inside the circles of the biblical counseling world, I find her points - both positive and negative - ring true.

Ok we need way more of this on Twitter.

Rick Warren: It’s no accident that the same voices that said “We can’t protect women from abuse, because of the autonomy of the local church” are the same voices saying, “We can prevent them from being called pastors in the autonomy of the local church.” churchleaders.com/news/446670-ri…

In 1 Cor 11, Paul assumes that women are praying and prophesying in church meetings, just like the men. NT churches were small groups meeting in homes. Teaching wasn’t limited to a sermon from a “pastor.” Men and women were participating fully in Christian worship.

No matter how evil foolish unfaithful perverse dishonest manipulative corrupt cowardly or selfish people may be ... God remains good.

One agonizing thing about separating from an abuser is the people who try to stay “neutral.” If you know someone’s a wife beater, sexual predator, child abuser, or cheater, to remain “neutral” is to condone evil and be complicit. You’re being part of the problem. Call it out.

@denisejkruse It shouldn’t be this way. Im so sorry. 🌱This is partly why I stress that abuse survivors do more of their own healing before entering advocacy spaces. It’s crucial that we do not perpetuate harm.

The death of Timothy Keller (1950-2023) is an incalculable loss to the church, the world, to those of us who loved him, those of us he helped in our darkest hours. This is gain for Tim, now in the presence of Christ. He need no longer explain the reason for God, just to enjoy him forever.

A lot of significant church-related death in this season. Nothing else to say about that. Just… a lot of death. Pastors’ hearts are really hard, friends. So hard. And the soft-hearted ones keep going home. Rest peacefully, Todd & Tim… but we really needed you here.

Reminder: women were ordained as pastors, priests, and bishops in the first three centuries of the early church. To claim ordaining women is “slipping into liberalism,” is to miss how the church stopped ordaining women because it slipped into patriarchy.

What’s it like to be a woman in the church? Men talk at me Men talk about me Men vote on what I can do Men decide whether my perspective is valid (especially when I’ve been abused) Do I sound angry? I’m not. I’m hopeless. I’m waiting for men who actually want to listen to me. +

I have a confession to make I support female pastors and equality between husbands and wives And it’s time to admit… I feel this way because I’ve been influenced by culture 🧵

And then there’s this toxic grab bag of theology: women are designed by God to submit, men are in charge of everything except their own sex drives, which women have to control, sex is shameful, etc All this creates cultures incapable of or unwilling to protect the defenseless.

I saw “Barbie” this week with my wife. Here are 3 simple thoughts: 1️⃣ The film is a satire. (A very unique one I might add.) The point of a satire is to tell a story in a way that shocks you so your eyes are opened to reality. /1