Rehabilitating ministers?

Why churches and organisations need to be careful about the idea of 'restoring' their leaders

The Christian news this week has been alive with tough and tragic things, which carry the common thread of leaders who fail and the terrible damage that they do to others. These stories have become so commonplace that it is easy for those of us within evangelicalism to lose our focus on how the church responds and what should become of those who abdicat…