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What Ravi Did and Where We Go From Here.

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Lori Anne Thompson's full victim impact statement video - https://youtu.be/4kDe8caElaw This is not a video I'm looking forward to. But this is why I'm doing it. 1) Ravi's victims need vindication. In particular, Lori Anne Thompson has been continually maligned and horribly treated because she brought TRUE accusations against Ravi. I believed the worst about her because of the comments from Ravi and the echoes of those comments from RZIM. This only made her a continual victim. We need to clear her name. 2) Ravi's sins have left a lot of open wounds that need tending. Both in the body of Christ and in RZIM. Believers need to be reminded of how to process all this as a follower of Christ, of how true Christ remains regardless of this tragedy and how to handle this situation so that we don't wrongly treat RZIM staff, Ravi's family or continue to make the error of ignoring red flags that may still lead to more discoveries. I've seen every kind of wrong response online already. I pray to God that I would have wisdom to help us all to have wisdom here. If you are reading this before I go live then please stop and pray for me as I prepare for this video. 3) Scripture commands us to openly deal with a leader who persists in sin, which is proven by evidence, by telling the local body so that other leaders can properly fear their own falling (1 Tim 5:19-20). Since Ravi was a leader in worldwide Christianity with personal character endorsements from countless other leaders this command can only be fulfilled by taking the truth as public as his endorsements were. 4) If we as the body of Christ do not deal with this issue openly then I feel that we implicate ourselves in some sort of complicity at this point. The witness of Christ in the world has been harmed by Ravi's sin and we do need to publicly deal with it. Due to my own place in ministry as a public figure I do feel compelled to speak on this. Like many of you I am angry and I'm sad. But we can't respond with conspiracy theories that deny the overwhelming evidence of persistent sin, abuse of power, abuse of ministry funds, abuse of women and how calculated and deliberate it all was. The facts are in, all that is left is to face them and try to respond in ways that honor Christ. To Ravi's family, I'm really sorry I am making a video about your father/husband/relative. It breaks my heart and I hate the idea of adding hurt to what you are going through. Please know that I don't mean you harm and I'm not on the bandwagon of heartless crowds. I am compelled that this must be done and I pray that you will find, in some way, some help in it as well. The PDF of the full Miller & Martin investigative report on Ravi https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rzimmedia.rzim.org/assets/downloads/Report-of-Investigation.pdf The board of RZIM's most recent statement (as of 2/15/2020) https://www.rzim.org/read/rzim-updates/board-statement The timeline according to Brad and Lori - https://julieroys.com/open-letter-to-rzim-from-brad-lori-anne-thompson/ Christianity Today Spa Article https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/september/ravi-zacharias-sexual-harassment-rzim-spa-massage-investiga.html World Magazine Spa Article https://world.wng.org/2020/10/new_sexual_misconduct_claims_surface_about_ravi_zacharias Open Letter from Thompsons - https://julieroys.com/open-letter-to-rzim-from-brad-lori-anne-thompson/ 10-13-2020 My teaching explaining that all sin is NOT the same. https://youtu.be/Tp_lAMuX16k My website https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0

I think this is the most miserable video I've ever had to make and I hate this video and

0:14.0

I'm telling you guys right now it's going to be ugly and unpleasant and it's I'm not

0:18.9

this isn't like me trying to shock you into watching the video actually you might not

0:25.9

want to watch this video I'm going to read to you the entire report about Ravi Zacharias

0:31.1

and what he did because this is the thing that opens my eyes and it's the thing that's

0:34.4

going to open your eyes but it's hard to not be emotional usually in the middle of

0:38.4

a crisis scenario I'm pretty good at being not emotional at that moment this is not

0:44.0

that moment for me yeah this is going to be emotional it's going to make you angry

0:47.2

and it should make you angry but here's the thing if you don't want to hear this if you

0:51.1

don't want to hear the report if you don't want to hear from Laurie and Thompson one of

0:54.3

Ravi's victims and you're going to hear from her her directly today if you don't want

0:59.5

to hear this then I I tell you this you cannot speak about the issue in public because you

1:05.2

didn't want to hear the issue you didn't want to know what he really did you want to say

1:08.7

oh you know he's a he ever David sent to and don't cast the first stone and all that you

1:13.3

can't say any of those things because you don't even know what you're talking about yet

1:16.2

unless you actually read the report which I'm going to do today or understand exactly

1:20.5

what's going on I have not enjoyed a single moment of preparing for today's video and

1:26.2

you're probably not going to enjoy very much of today's video originally the plan was

1:30.6

I was going to take a few days off I wasn't teaching today that was the agenda anyway

1:34.1

and that didn't happen but here's why I have to do this first question I should ask

1:39.5

why am I making a video where I am talking about exposing a Christian leader a man who is

1:44.7

probably was was probably one of the most highly respected Christian apologists in the

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