How Have You Processed the Sin of Ravi Zacharias? // Ask Pastor John

How might Christians process the failures of once-beloved figures like Ravi Zacharias? Pastor John draws out lessons from the ministries of fallen leaders.

Our first email arrived on October 3rd, from Marcus in Los Angeles. And since, over the past eight months, another hundred emails followed — all of them asking about the Ravi Zacharias sex scandal. Our emails can be basically boiled down into three questions. (1) Pastor John, how are you processing the tragedy yourself? (2) How should we think of his ministry legacy now? And (3) what would you say to those shaped deeply, or even converted, through his influence?

So, even though your ministries didn’t overlap much, you got a lot of emails, like this one, a representative one from Jonah. “Hello, Pastor John. With the substantiated allegations of sexual immorality in the life of Ravi Zacharias, how should we process it and respond to it? The initial impulse seems to be to delete him, to ignore him and never talk about him again. But that’s not what we do with David, a man after God’s own heart, who infamously committed sins of lust and adultery, leading to pregnancy, deception, and murder. David is a man of great faith that we talk about and celebrate today despite his serious sins. Is it wrong to defend contemporary spiritual leaders in spite of their sexual sin? Does the death of a teacher factor into this decision — as in, would it be more dangerous to defend a living teacher susceptible to greater failures? Also, I know a number of people who came to faith because of Ravi. What would you say to encourage a believer now enduring the trial of having their spiritual father torn down because of his own sin?”

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