Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast, I'm your host Curtis Chang.

The Good Faith Podcast is a production of redeeming babble.

And the Good Faith Podcast is where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense

of the world.

Now one of the consistent themes of the Good Faith Podcast is that Christians make sense

of the world not just as individuals, but also through institutions.

And that's because we reflect the character of God not just as individuals, but also as

institutions.

That human institutions are just that, they're human.

And therefore they participate in the human call to reflect who God is in their own way.

It also means that human institutions participate in this grand biblical story of humanity, which

includes sin and the need for redemption.

So this is why there is such a thing as institutional sin.

In fact, if you go back to the archives of Good Faith, our very first episode was titled

Liberty University and the reality of institutional sin.

And it points to that fact that while all institutions, including secular institutions,

do have some role in reflecting who God is, Christian institutions, bear in a special

responsibility because they are in relationship with Christ in a conscious way.

We have a special responsibility to reflect who God is, which means we have to take really

seriously the nature of institutional sin.

And there's a particular kind of institutional sin that's been getting more and more recognition.

And that is the sin of spiritual abuse.

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