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Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ravi Zacharias: Responding to Sexual Abuse in the Church

Ten Minute Bible Talks Devotional Bible Study

Ten Minute Bible Talks

Christianity, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Mental Health

4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Recent revelations about Ravi Zacharias' abusive sexual behaviors have been in the Christian headlines. In this episode, we discuss how the church should respond to abuse and construct its systems such that abuse cannot continue. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0

Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

0:10.8

I'm Keith Simon.

0:11.9

And I'm Patrick Miller. If this

0:14.2

podcast has been helping you in your walk with God, would you take five

0:18.2

seconds to help us? Hop onto Twitter and follow our new Twitter account at

0:23.2

TMBT podcast. If you go there you can see our latest episodes. You can also

0:28.6

follow Keith and I and send us messages. We'd love to follow you back and see what's happening in your life.

0:36.4

Unfortunately, it feels ever more common to read headlines

0:40.8

about sexual abuse that is not just happening out there in the world but is even happening

0:46.5

inside of the church and probably the biggest headline in the Christian world last week was

0:51.4

revelations that Ravi Zacharai is a very famous

0:54.7

apologist perhaps the most famous apologist in the world after his death there's

0:59.0

been an investigation into his last six years and it's come out that he is guilty of much of that and I don't want to go into more detail right off the top because I realize that we have people who listen to this podcast with their children and this might not be the right podcast for your kids. That's obviously up to you as a

1:17.2

parent. I'm sure we will be using some graphic language that you might want to have a conversation

1:22.2

about ahead of time.

1:24.2

And this is hard to talk about because our hearts and our prayers are for the victims.

1:29.8

There are many women who were victimized by Ravi Zacharias and it's difficult to put into words for me and I think for Keith how

1:38.0

sickening it is to read these stories.

1:41.7

I think of my wife, my daughter, my sister, people that I dearly

1:46.8

dearly love and know that this could be them and that they could be the ones

1:52.1

who have been harmed and that that harm can go beyond just the physical and psychological harm.

1:58.0

It is a deeply spiritual harm that can even have eternal repercussions.

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