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S9 Ep924: Sexual Abuse, Sexual Brokenness, and the Gospel: Jay Stringer

Theology in the Raw

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What About the Percentage of Abusers in the Congregation?

Thernik: A third of my congregation have been through all the stuf you're talking about. As i look out at my thousand people in the congregation, i'm looking at 50 to a hundred abusers. I lead a training programme for pastors and therapis just cone of that union notion that no leader can take any one further than they have been themselves. It's disturbing how few experiences any seminarians have with regard to processing their own sexual story or knowing how to address a sexual abuse within people and their congregation. And so that could be an unwonted sexual behaviour, like porn, but also something like that's known as hypoactive, a sexual arousal,. Just a sense

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