What should we do when high profile Christians mess up?
Recently, the high profile Christian comedian John Crist came out and admitted to having inappropriate relationships with women. This included trading sexual favors for tickets, sexting fans, and other accusations. This is a tragic event, and I pray for peace and healing for all parties. These types of events lead to a couple of responses, with people distancing themselves from John, people condemning him, and some coming to John’s side to show that he has apologized and that he deserves forgiveness. My question to pose and think about today is this, what should we do when high profile Christians mess up? We could take this question in a couple of directions, and consider two different groups of people. The first being church officials, such as youth ministers, your pastor, all the way to the pope (if you are a Catholic). What do we do when they make ...