He had one of the largest platforms in the Reformed world.
He had one of the largest platforms in the Reformed world.
Then it came out: a five-year adulterous relationship. Ministry gone overnight.
Now Steve Lawson has a book — Mercy in the Wilderness: How I Fell and What I Found — and it is stirring the church. Should he have written it? Can he preach again? What about a Sunday school class?
In this clip Justin Peters sits with pastors Jim Osman and Steve LeBlanc. LeBlanc’s first thought: hope it was a fake. Hope godly men around him would never let that kind of thing go unchecked.
Forgiveness is not the same thing as a pulpit. Giftedness is not the same thing as fitness.
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife…
Titus 1:7
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God…
James 3:1
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Proverbs 28:13
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.