Brother I appreciate you so much. You always have a thoughtful and balanced approach. I'm sitting on the fence on this one. I don't know what's true and what isn't in this whole mess. I've read that there are inappropriate pictures that were found. I don't know. I do that I was in traveling ministry, the same way he way he was, and it can be very lonely being away from home and family. It's an opportunity for sin to creep in. I traveled with family but many out there do not. I was around a lot of men, and I was single, some were single and some were married. Most of them treated me with respect, but others, well you could tell what they were up to. And I felt sorry for their wives at home waiting for them. I remember how much grief Mike Pence got when he said he wouldn't allow himself to be alone with another woman. Don't give the devil a toe in the door. I think that is a smart policy.
I didn't know Ravi, I listened to some of his videos and thought he was very intelligent and he did a lot to further the Gospel. The problem is, in one fell swoop he undid it all. Now I don't know the mans heart. People can struggle mightily with sin and can't seem to get the victory. That doesn't mean they aren't also bitterly repenting after the deed is done. The devil knows our weakness and how to use it against us. All that being said we have to separate the deeds of the man and his ministry. If he did abuse these women then we must not been seen as covering for him in any way. He was wrong, dead wrong. Where he was with his walk with the Lord, we don't know. But we also have to say that we cannot wink at abuse of women or children as the Catholic church did. So we can say "yes, he reached many with the Gospel, but he failed morally and what he did was sin and wrong, it was abuse and it should never be tolerated, nor should there be an excuse made for it. And I say that from a perspective of a person who is a sinner, saved by grace, who stumbles and needs to repent and start each day anew.
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