S9 Ep990: When Leaders Fall…and Are Restored: Evan Wickham and Scott Curran
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Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Evan Wickham is the co-founder and lead pastor of Park Hill Church in San Diego. Scott Curran is an administrative assistant and teacher at the church. Over a year ago, Scott confessed to Evan that he had committed sexual immorality as he was a leader/teacher at the church, and Evan and the leaders beautifully navigated what it looks like to address this situation with grace, truth, and authenticity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. If you would like to |
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| 0:07.3 | content monthly blogs and podcasts and all kinds of other goodies. Theologinraw.com forward slash |
| 0:13.9 | theology in the raw to support the show. My guests today are Evan Wicken and Scott Kieran. Evan |
| 0:23.7 | and I go way back. Evan, for those of you who are at the theology in the raw exiles Babylon |
| 0:27.5 | conference, Evan Wicken, of course, led worship at the conference and he's going to lead next year |
| 0:32.8 | and probably every other year. We do an exiles Babylon conference because he just rocks. |
| 0:37.7 | And Evan is a pastor of Park Hill Church in San Diego. He's been there for a few years. Part of that, |
| 0:42.9 | he was a worship leader at, um, there was a bridge town that then one of the churches that John |
| 0:49.3 | Mark Homer helped start. He's got a master's degree from western seminary and I believe Scott also |
| 0:54.2 | has a master's degree from western seminary. I'm having, I'm having Evan and Scott on the show |
| 1:01.7 | to talk about something really sensitive. Um, over a year ago, it's found out that Scott while |
| 1:08.0 | preaching, he wasn't formally a pastor, but Scott was doing leadership type stuff at the church |
| 1:15.4 | preaching on Sunday several times. Um, he ended up having a sexual relationship to somebody he |
| 1:22.4 | wasn't married to. And I'll let him explain the details of that. But, uh, you know, while being on |
| 1:28.1 | leadership, he was violating the standard of living according to the church. And I remember |
| 1:34.9 | walking with Evan through this because he came, Scott came to Evan confessed, um, and Evan, |
| 1:42.6 | and I talked to you over a year ago, you know, like, man, how do we navigate this in a way that's |
| 1:47.1 | well in a way that takes sin seriously and also takes grace and restoration and confession |
| 1:53.1 | seriously. And how do we involve the body, um, on what level do we involve the body of Christ |
| 1:58.7 | in this process? And I thought that over the last year or so, I thought they handled it extremely |
| 2:05.7 | well. So I reached out to Evan and I think a few weeks ago and said, hey, would you would |
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