Survivors; do you want revenge or do you want to be whole.

You can't have them both.

Phil Johnson nails it.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21212024&postID=7280556643587836562
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Do survivor blogs and "discernment" blogs actually help anybody or do they encourage further bitterness and resentment?

I think it's the latter.

Insightful comment

I can’t bring myself to look at TWW either. In years past I saw the most mocking remarks towards Calvinists I have ever seen in my life at that site. I am a Calvinist. I love Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones, Iain Murray, and so many others. If WW is criticizing Mohler for mocking fellow Christians I hope they can remove logs from their own eyes first. The cracks about young earth creationists there, or people who believe in biblical male leadership in churches, well, that site was like a sewer pipe of mockery. Been a while since I was there so maybe the tone has improved, I don’t know. But they hold the prize for mockery IMO.

TWW dislike Al Mohler more than ever,

http://news.sbts.edu/2019/02/15/statement-r-albert-mohler-jr-sovereign-grace-churches/

ALBERT MOHLER PODCAST

If you want Dr. Mohler's take on the challenges facing the SBC, he has a daily podcast - Monday's looks at the problems facing the SBC as he discusses the Houston Chronicle article.

https://albertmohler.com/

HOUSTON CHRONICLE COUNT

380 LEADERS have been accused of sexual sins. 220 convicted.

A church leader according to this list includes;

Pastors,
teachers(at private schools), 
church volunteers,
nurses, 
deacons/elders
and assorted staff.

RUSSELL MOORE

 Our denomination now has a Sexual Abuse Presidential Study Group assigned with investigating all options and reviewing what other denominations and groups have done to keep track of abuses, while hearing from law enforcement, psychological and psychiatric experts, survivors, and many others.

Our approach is seeking to encourage policies and practices that protect children and the vulnerable from sexual abuse in autonomous but cooperating churches, all the while promoting compliance with laws and providing compassionate care for those who have survived trauma. True, we have no bishops. But we have a priesthood of believers. 

WHO DOES WARTBURGWATCH HATE MORE? UPDATE

The Houston Chronicle is about to release a story about abuse and coverups within Southern Baptist Churches.  It looks to be very revealing.

[ 47,000 Southern Baptist Churches in USA]

But back to the headline of this post.  Wartburgwatch is all over this of course, but my question is:  Who do they hate more?  The actual abusers or Albert Mohler.

My money is on Albert Mohler as more hated by the denizens of T.W.W. then the actual abusers.

Why is Albert Mohler so hated?  It's because of his stance on Scripture.
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Insightful readers will keep this in mind; you can be a member of a Southern Baptist Church, you CANNOT be a member of the SBC denomination.  Each SBC church is autonomous.  There is no denominational membership for individuals.

ARTICLE:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/Southern-Baptist-sexual-abuse-spreads-as-leaders-13588038.php

CRUCIAL -
August "Augie" Boto, interim president of the SBC's Executive Committee, helped draft the rejection of reform proposals in 2008. In an interview, he expressed "sorrow" about some of the newspapers' findings but said the convention's leadership can do only so much to stop sexual abuses.
"It would be sorrow if it were 200 or 600" cases, Boto said. "Sorrow. What we're talking about is criminal. The fact that criminal activity occurs in a church context is always the basis of grief.

But it's going to happen.

And that statement does not mean that we must be resigned to it."

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I would think; taking into account the number of Southern Baptist Churches and membership, MORE than 700 people have experienced sexual abuse of assorted leadership in the last 20 years.  It is the nature of sin - from which we all suffer.