According to research from the evangelical publishing company LifeWay, 64 percent of pastors said they talk about sexual violence once a year, or even less than that. Pastors drastically underestimate the number of victims in their congregations; a majority of them guessed in the survey that 10 percent or less might be victims.
But in 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 4 women (women make up approximately 55 percent of evangelicals) and 1 in 9 men have been sexually abused. There is no evidence suggesting those numbers are lower inside the church.
Immanuel Baptist Church faced a choice, the same one before many American churches today: Face the sin in their midst and make the church a place that follows the biblical command to care for the powerless and victimized — or avoid the disruption and churn out another generation of silenced victims who learn that the church isn’t safe.
I know that internal investigations, etc., have as much effect to it as with corruption, that is, nothing. Only publicity and -> the loss of reputation and -> the rule of law, will do it well. No matter a long time ago I got a sexual abuser caught red-handed, dead-bang, in one Camphill Movement place - someone must had been stopped this abuse there.
Later I threatened that I give it all to the public media. I put an end to the exploitation there.
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