BREAKING NEWS! BILLY GRAHAM’S GRANDSON, BOZ TCHIVIDJIAN, REPRESENTS A FAMILY THAT IS SUING ROBERT JEFFRESS’ FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DALLAS (WHERE BILLY GRAHAM USED TO BE A MEMBER) FOR ALLEGED MISHANDLING OF A HOMOSEXUAL-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE CASE
DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, SAYS AGAIN HE AGREES WITH WHAT DR. DAVID JEREMIAH SAID — “I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE THE DAY” THAT A STORIED, BIBLE-BELIEVING, EVANGELICAL, SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH PASTORED BY ONE OF THE BEST PULPITEERS IN THE NATION — ROBERT JEFFRESS — WOULD HAVE TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST CHARGES THAT ONE OF ITS YOUNG MEN ALLEGEDLY HOMOSEXUALLY SODOMIZED (RAPED) ANOTHER YOUNG MAN IN THE CHURCH (WITH THE CHURCH LOOKING RIDICULOUS BY DEFENDING ITSELF WITH THE PROVERBIAL LEGAL RESPONSE — ‘IT WAS CONSENSUAL HOMOSEXUAL SEX’ — INVOLVING MINORS). WHYTE, WHO IS 64 YEARS OLD AND WHO HAS BEEN PREACHING THE GOSPEL FOR OVER 45 YEARS, REPEATS: HE NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD SEE THE DAY THAT SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY IS RUNNING RAMPANT NOT ONLY IN LIBERAL BIBLE-DENYING CHURCHES BUT IN SO-CALLED EVANGELICAL BIBLE-BELIEVING CHURCHES. THE MODERN-DAY JUDAS-JEZEBEL-LAODICEAN CHURCH HAS FAILED GOD, JESUS CHRIST, THE FAMILY, THE CITY, THE NATION, AND THE WORLD. WHAT IS VERY SAD ABOUT THIS IS THAT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH DALLAS INCIDENT IS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF OTHER CASES LIKE THIS BREWING AGAINST CHURCHES ACROSS AMERICA. RIGHT DOWN THE STREET IN THE SAME CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS, THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE “BLACK POPE” — BISHOP T.D. JAKES — IS ACCUSED OF BEING A “POWER-BOTTOM HOMOSEXUAL.”
WHAT MANY PASTORS AND CHURCHES DO NOT REALIZE IS THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE WAYS THE SODOMY/HOMOSEXUALITY/LGBTQIPF2SSAA+ MOVEMENT HAS GOTTEN SO RICH — THEY ARE FUNDING THEIR CAUSE THROUGH LAWSUITS LIKE THIS ONE.
A father is suing the prominent Texas megachurch, First Baptist Church Dallas, for allegedly mishandling his son’s sexual abuse in 2022.
The father alleges in the lawsuit that their now 16-year-old son was sexually abused by an older student on a church youth mission trip in 2022. The family said church leaders bullied, shamed, and intimidated their son with “extreme and outrageous” conduct in response to a report of the sexual abuse, according to the lawsuit.
Along with the church, pastors Ryland Whitehorn and Alan Lynch are named as defendants in the suit. Whitehorn and Lynch are listed on the First Baptist Dallas staff page as of Monday afternoon.
First Baptist, currently led by Dr. Robert Jeffress, is a powerhouse church in Texas with 16,000 members, according to its website. Throughout the years, Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and Donald Trump have visited it.
It made headlines this summer, when its 134-year-old historic sanctuary was largely destroyed by fire.
The lawsuit aims to “hold First Baptist legally accountable for its egregious failure to protect” the victim, said Boz Tchividjian, an attorney at BozLaw PA, which co-represents the father along with two local Texas law firms.
“Our client was an eighth-grade boy who was sexually victimized during a church trip by a tenth-grader whom First Baptist should have recognized as a danger to others due to his prior history,” Tchividjian told The Roys Report (TRR) in a statement.
He continued, “Despite repeatedly assuring our client’s parents that he would be well-supervised and safe, church leaders not only disregarded the mandated curfew but also made the deliberate decision to leave our client alone in a hotel room with the perpetrator and three other tenth-grade boys.”
The family is seeking more than $1 million in damages for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and civil conspiracy.
First Baptist denied the allegations in a statement to TRR, claiming the incident was “consensual sexual activity.”
“The alleged incident involved sexual activity between two male teenage parishioners,” the church said. “Immediately upon learning of the subject allegation, it was reported to the necessary applicable law enforcement agencies. “After extensive investigations, including interviews with eyewitnesses, each law enforcement agency indicated this was consensual sexual activity and closed any and all respective cases.”
Alleged assault occurred on San Diego mission trip
The alleged incident occurred on a youth mission trip to San Diego in July 2022.
A month before this trip, the father was already hesitant and had safety concerns about sending his then 8th-grade son on mission trips.
In June of 2022, his son was at a youth “adventure camp” in New Mexico when a fellow teen allegedly held a knife to his throat. Church officials discouraged the family from pressing charges regarding this incident, according to the lawsuit.
Leaders then reassured the family that the mission trip to San Diego would have more supervision and that their child would be safe.
On the San Diego trip, the son, identified as D.R., was invited to the room of four 10th-grade boys while on the trip.
The teenagers did not have a curfew that night of the trip but were just restricted from being in a hotel room occupied by the opposite sex, according to the lawsuit.
D.R. and the 10th-graders watched a violent and sexually graphic R-rated movie on Netflix. After that, one of the 10th-grader boys sexually abused D.R., while another student witnessed it, the lawsuit claims.
The witness told D.R. the next morning that “no one needs to know what happened yesterday,” according to the suit.
“Because D.R. did not want to get in trouble or to be shamed by the older boys, D.R. did not report the abuse,” the suit wrote.
Church leaders intimidate the boy
Two months after the trip, D.R.’s mother was called by church officials to meet with them regarding an “incident” that happened on the trip, the suit said. The family then met with a group of First Baptist Dallas employees, including Lynch, Whitehorn, and church staff member Davin Hutchinson, according to the lawsuit.
At that meeting, Hutchinson accused their son of watching pornography and masturbating alongside other boys during the trip.
Lynch then lectured and attempted to intimidate, frighten, and confuse D.R., according to the suit.
After briefly leaving the room with his mother to calm down, D.R. returned and shared about the abuse with the leaders.
Lynch said he would report the incident to local law enforcement, the suit said.
The suit adds that “at the end of the meeting, Lynch told D.R. that what D.R. had done was wrong and that D.R. needed forgiveness from First Baptist.”
Several days later, the mother followed up with the church leaders about next steps.
Lynch allegedly told her that “all we have right now are allegations” and that “no force” was used by the alleged perpetrator. Because of that, Lynch said leaders who already knew about the situation would attempt to keep D.R. apart from the other boy.
Lynch said no other leaders would be informed of the alleged abuse, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit notes, “From this point forward, Lynch argued with D.R. and (the mother) whenever they spoke and attempted to intimidate them and bully them into silence.”
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THE BIG QUESTION
GOSPEL LIGHT MINUTE X #447 WITH DANIEL WHYTE III
This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447 titled, “The Big Question” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says, that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.
“HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?”
The question is not “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life likewise is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
A New Nature Needed
By physical birth we become partakers of human nature; by being born again we become “partakers of the divine nature”. A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting”. The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”.
Not “Trying” But “Trusting”
“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ, it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ Who has done it all! He has “finished the work” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God”. The Bible states in John 1:12,13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!
What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God … now commandeth all men every where to repent”.
The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent, and to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!
May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life”. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!
One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ!.
If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer: Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.
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