A yearly over all background check would be very costly and cumbersome. Of course at licensing it would be good.A random 8 alphabetical group every two years? Some wise person could come up with a way to cover the COG ministers every ten years. I really do not know the cost or the speed of one of these checks. I have faced several background checks, but that was long ago, long before the internet.I hope someone here is familiar with backgournd checks with certain filters as far as cost and time consumed. For all I know it may only take a minute or two for each name forming a list of hits to examine closer. You may actually have an exit of ministers if they knew actual checks were to be made. ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
I believe in grace and what is in the past is forgiven, but Would you let a doctor operate on you who had a recent dui drug charge or something worse? I know at my local hospital they check all doctors legal history. Why? because if they have a recent dui or charge on their record that means they are compromised and bigger issues may be at hand. The hospital could be responsible. if they are the doctor on call and the er needs them. What if they are too drunk to go work when the er is short handed there are plenty of questions that could arise from this. Lives literally hang in the balance. If the secular world has this standard why not the church world.Check this article out Judge to doctor imprisoned for 7th DUI: You ‘could have hired a driverwww.google.com/amp/www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-doctor-dui-sentence-met-20160810-story,amp.htmlQuoteprosector countered that The doctor has played the doctor card too many times, using his lofty professional status to seek special treatment from the criminal justice system after multiple run-ins with the law….. The fact that this man is a doctor is a not a mitigating factor. It is an aggravating factor.