DALLAS (TX)
The Tennessean
June 11, 2018
By Holly Meyer
Popular writer and Bible teacher Beth Moore says evangelicals must differentiate between sexual immorality and sexual criminality if they want the church to do better at addressing abuse.
“Both are sin and both demand repentance in order to be restored, but one calls the police,” said Moore, the founder of Living Proof Ministries.
Christians cannot let guilt over their own personal sexual sins and temptations prevent them from reporting allegations, Moore said during a Monday afternoon panel in Dallas about responding to abuse in the church.
“None of us want to throw stones, but it keeps us from even responding to a criminal situation because we think, ‘Listen, I’ve had my own sexual dysfunction,’ ” Moore said. “There is a long, long shot of difference between sexual immorality and sexual criminality that we have got to get straight.”
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