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Presbyterian Scandal

 


The Presbyterian Church  in America is facing sexual abuse scandals just like The Roman Catholics and Southern Baptists. Last year on June 7th three men came forward to file lawsuit against a church that covered up their rape by a minister. It was decades ago so the statue of limitations will be a factor. What is alarming is how scandals of this sort seem to be sitting and waiting to surface, that such evil is happening in so many denominations is alarming. Already an entire generation is abandoning religion, and scandals like these only reinforce  that you cannot trust the church.


I would argue that one of the reasons this is happening is the church is compromised. In 313 A.D. it became a business and part of the state, allowing money to pour in and Mammon to be worshipped alongside Jesus. The corruption of money, churches that are property and have money holdings contrasts with the house churches and love feasts of the New Testament Church.  Back then churches or the ecclesia was Christians, not a million dollar piece of property and land. Where the stain of money is, other scandals inevitably flood in. The church is already bowing a knee to Mammon, it is then no surprise  that lust and sexual perversion creeps in. If the church is to be purified of the stain of sexual abuse, it must also remove simony and its devotion to the almighty dollar. Jesus said, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” (Matthew 6:24). The church trying to serve both is in idolatry and with idolatry comes the other sins, including sexual immorality. 


If the scandals are to be stopped, the dry rot  of Mammon must be cut out along with the abusers arrested and handed over to judicial system. If this tide of scandal is to be stopped, the church is going to have to be reborn as it once was, or else the patterns of greed, lust, and abuse will keep going on and on. If we are to put an end to this evil, we must do deep surgery, cut out the Byzantine Mammonist tumors and begin the healing process for the victims. Amen.  


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