How many souls are suffering incest, child molestation, and other forms of sexual violence in your own family and church without you realizing it or helping them?
In our culture of sexual wickedness, we are missing opportunities to show the love of Jesus Christ to the least of these burdened with shame, tormented by fear, and distrustful of authority. When they suffered, no one in their church knew the signs of incest. No one heard their cries for help. No one protected them.
Your church has men and women, boys and girls who are suffering because of present and past incest and child abuse.
Do you know who they are? Do you know...
how to recognize them? Do you know the questions to ask? Do you know how to ask those questions? Do you know who is best able to ask those questions and get true answers? Do you know when to go to the police, and how?
Do you know how to love and care for the man who confesses he has sexually abused his child, his brother or sister, or a neighbor child? When predators are found in the church, when should the elders say something to the church, and how should it be said?
Do your pastors and elders know how to work alongside their wives and other women of the church to discover and respond to incest and other child abuse? Do you know why it's impossible to have an effective ministry to victims of child abuse without a close working relationship between the Titus 2/older women of the church and the board of elders?
Do you know how to create such a working relationship? How to answer objections from someone who thinks such cooperation between male church officers and Titus 2/older women is unbiblical or unwise?
These are some of the questions we will address in our upcoming Clearnote Conference titled The Enemy Within: A Conference on Sexual Abuse in the Church.
Please plan now to attend. This year's conference is not for church officers, only, but for everyone in your church who ministers to victims or sexual abuse and those who commit these horrific crimes. God calls us to love both groups and we must open our eyes to them all around us in the Body of Christ, today. Incest isn't a thing of the past limited to the families of Noah, King David, and the church of Corinth.
We're excited about this conference. We suggest you send your pastor and his wife as well as an elder and his wife, and maybe one more wise woman from your church.
A final reason to come: one of the most trusted Christian leaders who specializes in ministering to Christians who suffer from sexual sins will be speaking to us. Dr. Harry Schaumburg has written two of the best books on sexual sin available today, False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction and Undefiled: Redemption From Sexual Sin, Restoration For Broken Relationships
God's sheep who are suffering deserve our protection and love, so plan now to come and learn how to serve your flock with more understanding, tenderness, and mercy.
Tim serves Clearnote Church, Bloomington, Indiana. He and Mary Lee have five children and big lots of grandchildren.
Want to get in touch? Send Tim an email!
