This article provides a clear and concrete description of how children’s trust in God is affected by sexual abuse, and offers advice for those who are called to minister to victims of childhood sexual abuse, to help them to know God and receive his grace.
Using scriptural data, the author identifies five things that the church must stop doing in response to accusations and instances of child sexual abuse.
This article is a transcript of a speech given at a conference. It provides church leaders with deep insights into abuse and abusers, including the dynamics of deception and power in relationships, and the issue of repentance and forgiveness. Dr. Langberg identifies five governing principles to be followed in dealing with abuse, and a compelling argument for dealing with it forthrightly.
The author lays out several reasons why believers often fail to act when confronted with accusations and even evidence of child sexual abuse. His purpose is to encourage us to “get past” these initial, natural reactions, so that we act to help those who are abused.
This article offers churches some help in understanding how child sex offenders think and act, in targeting children in the church for abuse. The purpose of the article is to assist the church in trying to prevent child sexual abuse.
This article provides practical guidance on issues of the disclosure (by victims), prevention, and treatment of child sexual abuse in the Christian community.
Sexual abuse has destructive results. It impacts one's relationship with self, others, and God. This article shows how sexual abuse does this, and how to bring healing.
Sexual abuse has happened not only outside of the church, but also within the church. How should the church respond? This article gives a suggestion.
This article highlights the dynamics of sexual abuse, characteristics of a sex offender, and how to reach out to both victim and perpetrator with the law and gospel of Christ by using the principle of Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther.
How can the church reach out to adult sex offenders? Looking at the ministry of Henry Gerecke to the Nazis, this article develops ten lessons for the church seeking to minister to sex offenders or pedophiles with the gospel.
