MY REPLY TO A FORMER COLLEAGUE AND GOOD FRIEND WHO OUT OF HIS SHEER LOVE FOR CHRIST THOUGHT BUSOLA SHOULDN'T HAVE COME OUT. HE THOUGHT IT WOULDN'T ROB OFF WELL ON CHRISTIANITY
We should be careful as its likely the case will be taken to court. But my brother, their are steps the bible pointed to in dealing with matters in 1cor. 5. A Christian should try to exhaust all these steps.
First, you should approach the offender one on one. If the person seems unwilling to adjust, you take along about two church elders. However, if the person still prove unrepentant you open the matter to the church. Thats the third step.
The final step in case the person persist in his wrong is for the whole church to stop associating with him.
In the case of this pastor, a handful of his former congregant especially choirs had raised accusations against him. Him or the church to their discredit hasn't reacted appropriately to it. Many of these suppose victims claim they have reported the matter to some authority in the church but that it appears those authority are more concern about sweeping the whole thing under the carpet.
From my study of the bible.( it will help if you read the whole of 1cor 5 and numbers 16:25,26). It won't be out of place to put the whole thing in public and denounce not only the pastor but the whole church given that the people in authority didn't deem it necessary and of utmost importance to sanctify Gods name. If one does this, one hasn't rubbished Gods name and Christianity, they-the pastor and elders are the one that have, one would have actually shown that they are counterfeit Christians. One might even by such action help others stay clear of their camp.