A friend of mine has been leading a class based on my book The Next Story.
He emailed me a couple of days ago to say that he was preparing to
teach on “Privacy and Visibility,” two areas where the digital world has
brought a great transformation to our lives. Right before he went to
teach the class, he came across a sad story
of yet another pastor who has destroyed his ministry for the sake of
following his lust. It was a pointed illustration of new realities in
this new world. It was also an illustration of something that transcends
the digital world.
Until Tuesday, Jack Schaap was pastor of First
Baptist Church of Hammond, outside Chicago. First Baptist is the
largest church in the state with something like 15,000 people attending
each Sunday. Schapp’s pastorate came to an abrupt and shameful end
on Tuesday.
Jack Schaap had left his cell phone on the pulpit and a deacon had seen it on the pulpit and had picked it up to bring it back to him,” Trisha Kee, who maintains a Facebook group for ex-congregants, told the station. “From what we understand, the deacon then saw a text come through from a teenage girl in the church, and it was a picture of Jack Schaap and this girl making out.Church officials announced that he had been fired for “a sin that has caused him to forfeit his right to be our pastor.” Schapp has since confessed that he was involved in an affair with a girl of sixteen who had come to him for counseling. Continue at Tim Challies
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