Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown.

On this show, Pastor Matt sits down with his friends to answer your questions about life, Jesus, and the Bible.

Let's get into the episode.

Well, hey, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of The Debrief with Matthew Stephen Brown.

I am Tammy Brown, and I'm honored to jump into the co-host seat this season with him.

Let's get into today's episode because we have some fantastic questions that I'm really interested to see how you're going to answer.

All right.

This first question comes from Kim from South Lake Tahoe.

Says, Pastor Matt mentioned in a sermon that without private purity, we can't have public power.

And I immediately thought of the many well-known pastors slash teachers with hidden sexual sin in their

lives that seem to have thriving ministries.

How do you explain this?

I'm so happy to hear you answer this because we talk a lot about this privately.

Yeah.

Let's see those answers come out now on the show.

Well, what I would say, Kim, is nothing's private forever.

So it all comes out. And the reason

that you said there are many well-known pastors and teachers with hidden sexual sin is because it

wasn't hidden. It came out. And they've lost everything. They've lost position. They've lost power or

prestige. And very rarely have I seen someone that has experienced something like that ever

rise to the level. You know, they might be on a podcast. They might get hired at another church.

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