This episode of Quick to Listen is sponsored in part by StartCHURCH, a company for pastors and ministry leaders that helps them get started the right way! Given such a church where pastoral qualifications are discarded and church discipline neglected, the Bible will not be preached and bingo! I would imagine that in Texas, where Baptists are as thick as thieves, any scandal involving Baptists is bound to gain someattention. Qualifications schmalifications. Charles Stanley, influential Baptist preacher, dies at 90 For a sense of what this second-degree or double-separation means, think of Bob Jones dismissive definition of an evangelical: Someone who says to a liberal: Ill call you a Christian if you call me a scholar. "I was really scared because my family has a history of abusing drugs and alcohol," she said. ", Tresler died of a drug overdose on March 17, just weeks after this interview. (Proverbs 27:17). And of course, if church growth is the goal, then church discipline is the enemy, it not being practical and all. In 2008, an investigation by the federal Government Accountability Office revealed thousands of cases and allegations of child abuse and neglect since the early 1990s at teen residential programs throughout the country. Among them: D. August Boto, the committee's former vice president and general counsel, and former SBC spokesman Roger Oldham kept their own private list of abusive ministers. I find this duplicitous. However sad the day, whatever the day may bring and whoever is involved, as Bible-believing, Christ-honoring Christians, we must step up, bear the load, and do our best to do right.. In response to an explosive investigation, top Southern Baptists have released a previously secret list of hundreds of pastors and other church-affiliated personnel accused of sexual abuse. Aside from a handful of scattered news stories, the media has turned a blind eye to abuse that is all-too-frequent in our public schools (perhaps as high as 1 in 10 students will experience sexual abuse in the public schools). So are we guilty by association and lacking of discernment. It started as part of the Northern Baptist convention but, concerned about creeping liberalism in that association, split away to join the Conservative Baptists. Stanley was senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta for 50 years. Ask the man on the street what fundamentalism means and they think. Jeannie Marie has stopped going to the church she said "deceived" her.