Emergency Hearing Set in Pawleys Island Church-Academy Lawsuit

Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care

When a lawsuit ties a church and its school to a sex-offender case, the underlying question for Bible-believing Christians is institutional accountability for the safety of children entrusted to a ministry's care. Scripture takes with utmost seriousness any failure to protect the vulnerable. Until more facts emerge, Christians should neither assume guilt nor dismiss the seriousness of an emergency hearing being granted, which typically signals a court found urgent grounds to act. Congregations and school boards everywhere should use this as a prompt to confirm their own child-protection policies, background-check procedures, and reporting protocols are actually being followed, not merely written down.

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. — Matthew 18:6

From the book

In the case studies of captured institutions, leadership usually failed not for lack of information but for fear of losing status. They feared being called bigots more than they feared compromising the truth.

— Chapter 17, “The Mandate of Courage”

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