What is your opinion on whether or not a convicted sexual offender should be allowed to join a church?

Question

This one's all over the news, guys. What do you think?

I believe he should be welcomed with open arms, because that is what Jesus would want us to do. We are all sinners, and God's love and Jesus' blood covered all sins who were confessed and asked for forgiveness by a sincere follower of Christ.

I think he should be watched like a hawk around the children, but to not allow him in the church is to reject the very basis that the church was founded upon.

Answer 1

Of course he should be welcomed.

And for those who are watching him like a hawk around the children....make sure you are also watching that guy who cheated on his wife, keep Kathy away from other women so she won't gossip, ask George if he's been drunk lately and find out if those teenagers are sleeping together.

Sin is sin, and honestly, where is a person (especially a known sex-offender) going to be able to get access to a kid at church. I'm not saying let him be involved in the youth program, merely pointing out that we are all sinners in need of saving. As Christians, we should never be surprised or shocked by any amount of sin. Because we are all full of it.

Personally, I am heartened by any story of a publically known sinner having the courage to go back to church. (Big local story where I live, of a minister who had a HUGE fall from grace, yet goes to the church that fired him, loves the people and is loved by them. Now that's Christianity with muscle.)

Answer 2

Living in Holland it is no surprise to me that I can't find the
story in the news here, and there are sadly enough too many
sex offenders around to dig it out with a web search.
This will be an interesting test of a congregation, a sex offense involving a child / children is probably the most
repulsive crime in any society.
But there should be no argument as you point out,mooch.
Turning a man away and kicking him out of the church doors
cannot ever be an option, where else and what better place for
a believer to turn to if he is looking for atonement, forgiveness
and probably support.
But even in the unlikely case he has no remorse at all, he would still be entitled to participate, you can't override the
word of your God or ignore the teachings and examples of
your Savior and maintain you're a Christian.
To deny a man ( no matter how evil ) even the slimmest chance of salvation and in effect excommunicate him cannot
be taken into consideration.
Walk the walk, and if there are children around make sure
somebody walks the walk very close to the man.

Answer 3

provided that they might keep a precise eye on him and make helpful he's keen to maintain on with specific rules and make helpful that he's familiar with that there'll be no 2d opportunities for him in terms of the protection of the youngsters. He can not be allowed everywhere close to any toddlers. i comprehend of one individual who's a registered intercourse criminal it relatively is now "reformed" What he's familiar with is that his affliction is like alcoholism. He has to stay faraway from temptation, and he does comprehend this and for this reason, he does not enable himself in a topic the place he may well be tempted to do harm to a diverse individual. So, can the church walk in like to this guy, and extra importantly can this guy keep on with strict limits??? it relatively is a complicated question, by fact we ought to forgive one yet another, and a pedophile is definitely certainly one of the biggest hazards. yet, enable me supply you some foodstuff for thought. With the present rules, did you comprehend that if 2 young human beings under age sixteen have intercourse with one yet another and the police locate out, the two toddlers at the instant are convicted intercourse offenders, and it is going on their checklist??? So, previously we decide everybody as sexual predators, we ought to look on the area. enable me supply you some foodstuff for thought here. This individual got here forward and voluntarily disclosed their previous, precise? To me, understanding that this individual had a difficulty and is repentant and desires to get precise with God, they choose our compassion and love. yet, if we turn this individual away, we additionally invite a secondary difficulty. there are countless predators available that for the time of no way have come forward for any sort of help, many times by fact they're petrified of retaliation. i could lots fairly comprehend that a individual has a difficulty, than the flipside. That flipside is that somebody is going to molest my toddlers, yet we don't comprehend that individual is a difficulty.

Answer 4

Jesus spent what little time he had preaching to sinners and outcasts.

Of course, the modern churches reject that concept, along with everything else Jesus taught.

Answer 5

That's a no-brainer. He is there hopefully to repent. The church is there to forgive.

He either gets taken in, or my idea of how fake those churches and religious conservatives are gets reinforced.

Answer 6

The Church is a building. We are the Temple as God lives in us. I see that there some genuine Christians here. I say welcome him as Christ would want us to. Guard the childern as they are innocent gifts that we are instructed to watch over.

Answer 7

Agreed.

Churches (in theory, at least) operate on the premise that no one is beyond redemption.

As a wise old Baptist peacher once told me, "It is man that differentiates between sins, not God. Would you rather live next door to a liar or a murderer?"

Answer 8

You have got to be kidding.. What is this world coming to when they try to tell someone whether they can go to church or not!!

Ditto what you said, around schools, playgrounds, around my home there will be big problems (they might get shot), but the house of the Lord no question he should be welcome.

Answer 9

As long as there not the ones saying the mass. We all know were that'll lead to

Answer 10

He should be allowed to join and to fellowship with adults but he should never be allowed to be alone with minors.