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Guest Bios Show Transcript What happens when “honor your leaders” comes to mean looking beyond a pastor’s behavior? When truth-telling is labeled accusation, accountability is called rebellion and leaving an abusive church feels like disobeying God? In part two of this series, Lance Ford examines how the Under Cover framework can protect authority at the […]
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