Editor’s note
Editor Barry Gritters introduces a special issue of the Standard Bearer addressing sexual abuse within the Protestant Reformed Churches, drawing on Ezekiel's prophecy to call the church to openly lament and repent of such abominations rather than remaining silently complicit. The editorial establishes the theological and pastoral necessity for comprehensive treatment of this grave sin that wounds both victims and the church's witness to God's holiness.
We "sigh and cry." In your hands is an issue of the Standard Bearer unlike anything we have ever produced, for an occasion the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) have never before publicly faced. Sexual abuse. If it is a shame even to speak of what the Gentiles do in secret (Eph. 5:12), how much more so the abominations that take place in the church. But we must speak, in order to expose, repent of, and root out what is so dishonoring to God and so destructive to victims. When the prophet...
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