Our first email arrived on October 3rd, from Marcus in Los Angeles, and since over the

past eight months, another 100 emails followed.

All of them asking about the rabies that arise sex scandal.

Our emails can be basically boiled down into three questions, Pastor John.

How are you processing the tragedy yourself?

How should we think of his ministry legacy now?

What would you say to those who are shaped deeply or were even converted through his influence?

So even though your two ministries didn't overlap much, you got a lot of emails about

this, like this one, a representative email from a listener named Jonah.

Hello, Pastor John, with the substantiated allegations of sexual immorality in the life

of rabies that arise.

How should we process it and respond to it?

The initial impulse seems to be to delete him, to ignore him, and to never talk about

him again.

But that's not what we do with David, a man after God's own heart who infamously committed

sins of lust and adultery leading to pregnancy, deception, and murder.

David is a man of a great faith we talk about and celebrate today despite his serious sins.

Is it wrong to defend contemporary spiritual leaders in spite of their sexual sin?

Does the death of a teacher factor into this decision as in would it be more dangerous

to defend a living teacher susceptible to greater failures?

Also I know a number of people who have come to faith because of Ravi.

What would you say to encourage a believer now enduring the trial of having their spiritual

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