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Christian Post
Church’s Film With Sex Offender a ‘Perfect, Tragic Picture’ of What’s Wrong in Its Response to Sex Abuse, Says Billy Graham’s Grandson
BY MORGAN LEE , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER
January 21, 2014
The grandson of American evangelist Billy Graham and executive director of GRACE, a Christian sex abuse victim ministry, blasted a church video featuring a convicted sex offender apologizing for her crimes.
Boz Tchividjian appeared on Janet Mefford’s radio show last week to speak out against the film, which he alleged paints a “perfect, tragic picture” of what is wrong in the Church’s response to sex abuse.
“Why? Why make a video and post this? My guess would be that the [Deeper Life Fellowship] wants to show ‘Look how Christ can transform somebody else.’ But what ends up coming up after the video is that there are four or five things that I have seen over and over again in responses to offenders by the church,” said Tchividjian.
Tchividjian told The Christian Post on Tuesday that by creating the film, while this might not have been the church’s intention, it was once again bypassing “the incredible needs of victims.”
“Often times [churches] simply ignore them. Or, often times their focus is so fixated on the offender that they lose contact with the one who has been hurt the most in all of this and that’s the child,” he said.
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