[Trapped]

Awoken, thanks for posting this. I had forgotten Mike Winger was going to put something out and I'm in the middle of watching it right now.

Would that I could round up all the co-workers and elders in the Lord's recovery and make them sit in a room and watch this stuff.

aron, I, too, have been utterly disgusted as well as very depressed at the sheer volume of comments I've seen on social media that say things like:

-I, for one, will not be throwing the first stone
-who among us is without sin?
-we must forgive him
-how tormented he must have felt!
-I still love and respect him for his work
-David sinned terribly and was still a man after God's own heart
-judge not!
-we are in no position to judge. God is the only judge.

....and on and on and on...

My stomach turns just writing those things, because it tells me that even the larger Christian community, unbelievably, has the same mindset as the local church does toward sin and predatory sexual abuse, and knows just enough of scripture to be about as dangerous in the church as I can think of, but not enough to make the church in general a remotely safe place.

And that is something that's going to take me a while to stop being affected by. I'm bothered that people aren't as bothered as they should be.

For the DCP men (I won't call you brothers) who monitor this site - watch the video that Awoken posted. Read the letter that RZIM put out. See, maybe for the first time in your life, the Biblical response to darkness and evil in the church. Know that the sin and abuse and evil that you have hidden and covered and slandered victims of will not remain hidden forever, and you will be utterly without excuse unless you turn your course and take steps to repent and to bring the truth to light.