He has posted a story on his blog called "When Jesus looks like a sex offender'. Here's the beginning of the story:
An acquaintance of mine, a man who is a deacon in a local church, stopped by, and asked if he could talk to me.
We sat down in the small conference room at the community center we run.
“What do y’all do about sex offenders in church?” he asked.
A man named Andy had been coming to their church – a nice, successful, red brick, steeple church – for the last few months. He had attended their adult Sunday School, and everyone liked him. Andy was an older man, in his late fifties, with a short beard and horn rimmed glasses. He was well read, knew his Bible and listened with rapt attention in the service. He was thinking about joining the church, so he scheduled a meeting with the pastor.
“That was when it went south. He told the preacher he was a sex offender, and he wanted to join the church,” the deacon said.
How would your church respond in this situation? How do you feel about it?
Read the rest of the story at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hughhollowell/2016/10/when-jesus-is-a-sex-offender/
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