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Dear Pastor . . . Let’s Cultivate Honesty in Our Churches—Starting with Us
by:Sam Allberry
This article is part of the Dear Pastor series.

Dear Pastor,

It happened again, but this time it was someone I knew. He’d been spiritually, physically, and it seems even sexually abusing church members for years. Much of it involved manipulation and humiliation. He enjoyed controlling people. He’d been an elder statesman in our circles for decades. He was a brilliant preacher, a strong leader, and utterly charming.So to say the revelations were shocking was an understatement. Our whole ministry ecosystem as a network of churches was upended—and still is, in many ways. A few years on and we’re still reeling. At the very heart of our church movement was some deeply wicked behavior. We had to wrestle with what that meant. Were there signs we’d missed? How much of his toxicity might have rubbed off on the rest of us without us even knowing? What traits in him had we mistaken for virtues of leadership!
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