One of the most pressing questions for conservative evangelicals is “why are we fertile ground for abuse and cover-up?”

There will be a lot of deep, troubling, interconnected answers to that question. One of them: everyone is exhausted, and exhaustion has been normalised.

We won’t effectively tackle our culture of abuse + cover-up in the conservative evangelical church without beginning to tackle our culture of ministry exhaustion.

It’s too easy to justify covering up for powerful men when we are over-worked + think we need them to stay afloat.

When you’re exhausted, power looks like godliness and short-cuts look like salvation. This is fertile ground for abuse and cover-up.

“In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it”
Isaiah 30v15

As a whole church culture, we need to repent and we need to rest.

This is great point
https://twitter.com/hanbayl/status/1298189555695222784?s=21 https://twitter.com/hanbayl/status/1298189555695222784