Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations.

Listener discretion is advised.

I had a man, I can't name names, and it's close to my heart. It's really devastated our lives.

Some of us. Bad stuff, bad.

You know, pastors with a wife and child shouldn't be sleeping with teenage girls in their own church.

I went to him and I just said, I'm here, I'm here for availability, I'm here for accountability, I'm here.

And that's all I said to the man. It was all the level of involvement

that I needed. You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades

of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.

The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective

of the survivors.

Not all legal outcomes are known or final.

Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. Hey, everyone, welcome back to the Preacher

Boys podcast. On the show, I've covered a lot of horrible things within the independent

fundamental Baptist movement, and that means I've covered a lot of really ridiculous and stupid

and harmful things that have been said in pulpits in independent fundamental Baptist churches.

And on today's episode, I'm going to be covering one of the worst sermons I've heard in a very

long time. That's bad for a lot of reasons. One, it's not a very good speaker. There's a lot

of issues just in the flow of it. If you're trying to take notes, good luck. But also,

the content of what's being said is really extremely harmful. And the pastor

says multiple times, or the evangelist, rather, says multiple times that he hopes this soaks into

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