Philip Bethancourt moderating.
Panelists: Russell Moore, Beth Moore, Susan Cadony?, J.D. Greear, Rachael Denhollander.
They are talking faster than I can type. These are NOT quotes.
I will be constantly updating this.
Rachael –
1. Survivor community loves the church and finds hope in the gospel.
2. Unity that comes from silence and doesn’t confront sin is not real unity. Enforcing unity through silence is not godly.
3. The survivor community is used to hearing words without actions. There is skepticism because of the movement by some because they are used to their.stories not being heard.
JD– taking care of those who are abused is part and parcel of gospel work.
This is not a distraction from our mission, this is our mission.
Our words must be followed up by actions.
Shepherds need to be less concerned about their reputation and more about the sheep.
Susan
Shares her story of abuse. Horrific.
Beth
Passionately appeals for better treatment of women. Deal with this in a straightforward way.
Rachael
Discusses Eternal Functional Subordination of the Son and Complementarianism.
We can live in grace with these things but we cannot have grace with pedophiles in the pulpit.
Dr. Moore
Speaks to complementarian ideas and our differences. SBC that doesn’t have a place for Beth Moore doesn’t have a place for a lot of us.
To suggest that the problem in the SBC is that women speak to much is ridiculous.
Rachael
I have heard hundreds of messages on the meek and gentle spirit but NONE on how to value a woman’s voice.
Beth
Our goal is Christlikeness. Jesus valued women.
JD
Encouraged us to deal with this. Pastors are not uncaring, for the most, but some are complacent.
Susan
Continued her story. How the church dealt with it.
The most important thing when abuse occurs is the intervention of a caring adult.
Dr. Moore
Discussed autonomy.
Rachael
Explains some of the mistakes made by churches, using Village Church as an example.
Heart shift is the big issue.
Treat sexual abuse as if it were like other crimes and injuries.
Amazing argument.
JD
Previewed convention business.
Susan
Went through consequences of sexual abuse. Hasn’t been an easy road.
Talked about managing the trauma and encouraging the church to minister to people who have been abused.
This was informative and powerful. There were solemn moments that made me wish every SBC Pastor was able to be in the room.
I think it was Dr. Susan Codone, whose testimony was recorded in the report.
Did you see the Baptist 21 panel especially Matt Chandler defending his church’s handling of the abuse situation at his church? As he had previously stated elsewhere, he said again that the church delayed releasing the name of the individual accused of abuse, because the investigating detective asked them to delay releasing the name. He ssaid that seemed to be a big part of the criticism. Also, he said that they had reached out to everyone (they could find) who went on the camping trip to make them aware of the situation. He was criticized for both of these things on the ERLC panel, but the criticism does not seem valid in light of the statements Chandler had previously made and then restated on the Baptist 21 panel.