"Lawson’s elders said, 'I can tell you this. There is no accountability program as legalistic as you could make it, that would have ever have prevented Steve from this dual life of sin that he was living.'

This is, far and away, the worst statement made in Protestia’s transcript. It was entirely due to the 'peripatetic' relationship the Trinity Bible Church elders consented to, that Lawson could lead an undetectable double life. He was too important to be bothered with having people get to know him, whether in California or Texas, because he was jet-setting from one place to the other because prophets have important places to be. It is doubtless that a shepherd tethered to sheep can get into too much trouble without the sheep figuring it out.

The unique ecclesiastical scheme of Trinity Bible Church was not ancillary or peripheral to Steve Lawson’s demise; it was a cause of it. That claim doesn’t diminish Lawson’s personal culpability, but it was this arrangement by TBC that allowed him to continue in sin undetected for so long.

The Speaker-Driven Church, if it is not soon squashed, will lead to as much harm as the Seeker-Driven Church. Biblical Christians simply need to be above it, and that will require being okay with a pastor who’s no Steve Lawson.'

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