Firefly’s report listed several instances when ministry leaders tried to confront Brown, but he didn’t give consistent and full confessions. Firefly reported Brown showed a “calculated effort to evade accountability, suppress the allegations, and protect his ministry’s reputation.”
(Rebecca Hopkins – The Roys Report – a site CRN does not recommend) An accountability team of elders has cleared apologist Michael Brown for ministry, after they publicly rejected a recent third-party investigation conclusion that he engaged in “sexually abusive misconduct.”
These findings came after Brown’s Line of Fire board commissioned Jim Holler of Firefly, a third-party investigator, in January to investigate reports of alleged sexual misconduct by Brown….
Specifically, former secretary Sarah Monk claimed Brown swatted her rear end, kissed her, held her hand, and allowed her to sit on his lap in the early 2000s while he headed up the Fire School of Ministry in Pensacola, Florida.
The Elder Accountability Team assessed Firefly’s findings, which were released earlier this month, and reframed what Firefly called “sexually abusive misconduct” as “leadership misconduct.”
Editor’s note: As a Christian apologist Michael Brown should be fully aware that his inappropriate acts were, biblically speaking, the sin of adultery. In the words of the Lord Jesus “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” According to Got Questions, “Even if a man or woman simply indulges in lustful thoughts (pornography is especially problematic), then he or she is committing adultery even if no extramarital physical contact ever takes place. This explanation by Jesus avoids all of the nuances about “how far is too far” with someone other than a spouse, and it avoids the need to define what “sex” really is. Lust, not sex, is the threshold of adultery….Adultery is deadly serious and brings God’s consequences. “A man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself” (Proverbs 6:32; cf. 1 Corinthians 6:18 and Hebrews 13:4).
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Michael Brown.