TENNESSEE
The Commercial Appeal
By David Waters of The Commercial Appeal
Aug. 13, 2016
Leaders of both churches seemed to go the extra mile not once but twice to help Rick Trotter deal with his demons.
After Fellowship Memphis leaders fired him for “inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature” in 2010, they supported his wife and children while they paid for him to get three months of counseling.
They took him at his word there had been only a “single incident” of that conduct during his five years as the congregation’s worship leader.
They allowed him to read “a letter of apology confessing sexual addiction along with other improprieties of a sexual nature to the members of the church body.”
Confession is good for the soul.
After Trotter applied for a job at Downtown Church in 2011, pastors and elders of both churches met and discussed his past transgressions.
They got his permission to speak openly about how he used his smartphone to secretly record women in Fellowship’s restroom.
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