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Christian Post
Gospel Coalition Council Member Suggests That Tone of Online Discourse Keeps Focus Off Sex Abuse Victims
BY MORGAN LEE , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER
May 26, 2014
The recent online sparring between leaders within and outside the Gospel Coalition because of new revelations in the Sovereign Grace sex abuse scandal and Tullian Tchividjian’s departure from the Reformed movement unfortunately keeps the attention off the the sexual abuse victims, says a coalition council member.
Gospel Coalition council member K. Edward Copeland, who is the pastor of Zion Baptist Church in Rockford, Illinois, told The Christian Post that “situations like this kind of show something about the Christian community that we need to work on and that is finding ways in our disagreement to be more gracious and to be more willing to listen to what each other are saying before we respond.”
“I think [that victims of sex abuse] deserve more from all parties involved since they are the actual victims and they’re the ones who need our support and understanding even while all the facts are being ferreted out,” Copeland said.
The Illinois pastor clarified that his words were “coming from somebody who has not been intimately involved in terms of personal knowledge in relationship to what has been going at Sovereign Grace or with Tullian and various debates that he has had with various members,” but that it seemed to him “that a lot of the blogosphere from whichever angle you want to look at it from has not been very gracious.”
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