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Fast forward 15 years later....I am sure you have all read of the Memphis pastor who is quite successful as well as a published author. I have never heard of the guy. But he had a past indiscretion many years ago when he was 20 and a girl was 17.How does one, a spouse, or church for that matter reconcile such a matter? He did wrong but seems to have repented. Should he at that time gone to the police to make things right? The age difference wasn't much. It seems he has been on track since that event and seem to have come to himself in the 10 minute incident.

If he is a Congressman or Hollywood type - he should be crucified

I’m thinking he’s probably toast ministry-wise, especially since he was a 22-year-old youth minister at the time of his ‘indiscretion.’ But, the fact that his present church gave him a standing ovation after he addressed it with them does make me wonder.www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/memphis-pastor-admits-sexual-incident-teen-20-years-ago-gets-n836511

Here are some suggestions on a post written by one of the bloggers who was involved in breaking the story. This blogger predicted the standing ovation, btw. thewartburgwatch.com/2018/01/10/highpoint-church-a-tww-tutorial-on-how-not-to-handle-an-andy-savage-metoo-church-service/There are a couple of other posts which can give you some background on the story if you are interested. I'm not really offering my own opinion, here, just linking to some opinions that might round out perspectives.thewartburgwatch.com/2018/01/05/i-thought-he-was-taking-me-for-ice-cream-one-womans-metoo-story-of-molestation-by-her-former-youth-pastor-andy-savage/thewartburgwatch.com/2018/01/08/more-developments-as-well-as-the-drop-the-mic-moments-in-the-andy-savage-highpoint-memphis-metoo-situation/

I found the first link to be a good read. If offered some very good insights into how leadership of the church spun the story. The detail of the similarity between the church in Nashville and Memphis was interesting. I have read a few articles and watched the video of a portion of the service, and it seems clear to me that their (the church) damage control may open the door for more bad than good, especially related to the victim, and her advocates.This again points to the identification culture churches promote to gender loyalty. The concept that we are the coolest Christians because we go to the coolest church, with the coolest music, and have the latest technology (which is cool of course) and of course we have the coolest pastor who has the coolest life and family and it would be so cool to be just like him. So when something not so cool blows into the church, you handle it by doubling down on the cool. You amp up the music and get the cool pastor to handle the situation with a cool explanation and proper amount of humility and tears.I feel they would be better off to tell the pastor to stay home with his family, have the elders tell the church what they know and what they are doing about it, place someone in as intern and promise updates as more is known.My question is, did the church in Texas which handled the issue wrong in the first place violate the law? Also, with there be a rape charge?

Some would say in the 10 minutes he committed 'date rape'. Some would say he was a person of authority figure and took advantage, much like a policeman who commits a crime. You also must consider the 'reputation' of both. In any case you need a legal opinion in this day. I certainly have a problem with a church giving a standing ovation when a man stands and confesses, AFTER HIS SIN HAS BEEN EXPOSED. There is such a thing as crossing the line when someone else is involved.I have lived with a problem for 61 years where some fool exposed himself (and a lot more) to my wife as a teen and damaged her for life. I think I would have no problem beating him to a pulp for his damage to her mind. About the time she was coping, that PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER WORD head JS, that she admired started chasing whores. Believe me it is real. This girl/woman was as pure as the driven snow and ministers they RESPECTED disappointed and took advantage of them. You may feel like I am the worst of the worst, but this guy should be shot.Any YOUTH pastor who USES a girl deserves the same. Yeah, I am crying about now, but you must listen to someone that this has happened to to understand. ?Go ahead judge a little Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

Some would say in the 10 minutes he committed 'date rape'. Some would say he was a person of authority figure and took advantage, much like a policeman who commits a crime. You also must consider the 'reputation' of both. In any case you need a legal opinion in this day. I certainly have a problem with a church giving a standing ovation when a man stands and confesses, AFTER HIS SIN HAS BEEN EXPOSED. There is such a thing as crossing the line when someone else is involved.I have lived with a problem for 61 years where some fool exposed himself (and a lot more) to my wife as a teen and damaged her for life. I think I would have no problem beating him to a pulp for his damage to her mind. About the time she was coping, that PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER WORD head JS, that she admired started chasing whores. Believe me it is real. This girl/woman was as pure as the driven snow and ministers they RESPECTED disappointed and took advantage of them. You may feel like I am the worst of the worst, but this guy should be shot.Any YOUTH pastor who USES a girl deserves the same. Yeah, I am crying about now, but you must listen to someone that this has happened to to understand. ?Go ahead judge a little I can understand your feelings/thinking related to the former pastor in Memphis due to your wife's lifelong pain resulting from the assault she suffered. I think this is where the civil justice system can be the great arbitrator of justice. Churches are not able, nor should they engage in, an in house court/justice system regarding crime, especially in this case. There are too many vested interest and institutions that would rather see the issue go away rather than do right by the victim. When the Apostle Paul talked about not taking a brother to court, he was addressing civil disputes, not crime (in my opinion). Crime should be reported to the authorities (and it is a crime not to report assaults on minors, no matter the age difference), and the church's job is to love and pray for both victim and accused as they allow the courts to do their work. No, the justice system is not perfect, but if it fails to do what the law demands, at least the church has not stepped into something it should not. So if someone is accused in a case like this, they should not look to the church for cover or vindication, they should get a good lawyer. If a minor is harmed in any way related to the church or staff, call the authorities. All ministers are mandated to do so in such cases.

Some would say in the 10 minutes he committed 'date rape'. Some would say he was a person of authority figure and took advantage, much like a policeman who commits a crime. You also must consider the 'reputation' of both. In any case you need a legal opinion in this day. I certainly have a problem with a church giving a standing ovation when a man stands and confesses, AFTER HIS SIN HAS BEEN EXPOSED. There is such a thing as crossing the line when someone else is involved.I have lived with a problem for 61 years where some fool exposed himself (and a lot more) to my wife as a teen and damaged her for life. I think I would have no problem beating him to a pulp for his damage to her mind. About the time she was coping, that PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER WORD head JS, that she admired started chasing whores. Believe me it is real. This girl/woman was as pure as the driven snow and ministers they RESPECTED disappointed and took advantage of them. You may feel like I am the worst of the worst, but this guy should be shot.Any YOUTH pastor who USES a girl deserves the same. Yeah, I am crying about now, but you must listen to someone that this has happened to to understand. ?Go ahead judge a little Right on Cojak.Tired of ministers getting away with PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER WORD. I've seen it my whole life. the lifelong destruction they leave in their wake due to taking advantage of their authority with naive, or young women is pathetic.NBF has been ridiculed on this forum for taking a hard line on this PLEASE SELECT ANOTHER WORD - but that minister should not be allowed to lead again until the folks he hurt have been fully restored. I am glad to see that Hollywood finally agrees that the restore the sexual deviant back to his previous status (re: Polanski, Weinstein, Clinton, etc...) is a total slap in the face to those he hurt. I wish Christians would figure this out.

He said in the video that just after it all happened he confessed/apologized to the girl, her parents, the pastoral staff of the church, and to the church. So it ain't like he kept it hid all these years an is just now apologizin.

What exactly did he confess to? According to the young woman, the church was only told that he made a mistake.