Now that Im grown and look back on that, I realize even more clearly how serious a situation that could have become if he had had a few too many, driving home on twisting mountain roads in the pouring rain. Geeze Louise. And yes, I read the story above about the alcoholic lady who died, and her church paid for her funeral. She may not have much say over what he does, especially anything involving his children. Today that little churchis her home church. I just see no need for this be endlessly rehashed. I have to have a blood sugar reading within certain limits in order to be allowed to drive. No one has said we shouldnt try. The ideal situation IMHO is to get him out of ministry entirely and get help for his family so they understand alcoholism. That night, he was literally set free 30 years later, I still communicate with him he is not the alcoholic he feared he would become. I read that on Wade Burlesons blog. RC Jr is a high functioning alkie who is quite adept at sneaking a few tipples through the day and leaving no telltale signs. Yes, they can be a big help but only if the person is dead serious about sobriety. Most people here have already commented that churches dont know what they are doing with serious subjects and do more harm than good. Instead she said ha ha and discussed kicking him out of the church, complete with scripture verses to justify the deed. I just see the hope really being in getting people like him into treatment, and getting treatment/support for their family members. @ brian: This is not all that safe sometimes. Family helping an alcoholic usually does not help. I got the impression that several people from that area had developed major health problems. But hed lost his wife to cancer is the same excuse his supporters used to defend him over his Ashley Madison scandal. No one knows where an alcoholics bottom is and what finally makes that person raise the flag of surrender for help. I cant imagine the pain and loss you experienced. Unfortunately four funerals.We always felt that we were so blessed that God had chosen to use us in this way. He was into the Federal Vision (Doug Wilson) heresy which caused a lot of anguish for a lot of people for years. Sproul was driving under the influence. As the saying goes, A.A. Their denial is just a problematic as the person who is the problem drinker. Sproul 2 has done. Sproul 2 should be kicked out of his church and that he wasnt really a believer, etc. This website has been following RC SproulJr for years and has documented many problems with his ministry. A lovely woman in my church was an alcoholic. His three other criminal charges, two misdemeanors and one other felony, were dismissed under a plea agreement in exchange for his pleading guilty to the one felony. Part of the problem is that anxiety which found its start in a serious situation, like my daughters brain tumor, leads to the body getting used to being anxious. Sr. cant stop Jr. from spending his money on alcohol. Why do you feel its necessary to malign a godly servant like RC Sproul as if he is in some way responsible for his grown sons actions! Marriage & Divorce. It sounds to me like he has a different definition for in moderation. So I was only saying what the Bible says. That was maybe confusing. It is ASTOUNDING to me that Christians make excuses for a TWICE DEFROCKED PASTOR. I am not the least bit surprised by this [RC JR using an adultery site] as its commonplace in alcoholic behavior and something that is covered in treatment and on-going recovery programs. 1 Corinthians 5:11-13. With that much trauma to the face I would tend to say that you are fortunate to not have sustained crippling injuries to your neck and/or traumatic brain injury. 1 Corinthians 5:11-13. He was shocked, couldnt believe it. I never found any of that helpful in coping with depression, anxiety, or grief after my mother died. Yes, that is what I was trying to say earlier, but the html code messed up and my words looked like Velours words. It wasnt a law back then. We really need to drop it as this point. Ann Sproul passed away at age 65 years old on August 9, 1996. Unfortunately, I am in a lot of pain and maybe looking at surgery so I am having trouble keeping up with things. Yet at the same time he treats his own children with total disregard for their safety, as though their lives had no value. When you brought up 1 Cor. Sr. cant make Jr. stop drinking. And Im not starting. She just didnt mention it, and she didnt need to. If he Sproul gets clean and sober he will probably ditch many ideas that he used to justify including patriarchy. As Mel Gibson found out the hard way a few years ago. My trying to save him from the pain of his choices only made things worse. His family had left him and he died of runaway of pneumonia. and me: It works some of the time. And if it is true what you all say about people looking up to preachers, then right up at the top of people who need their jobs taken away is the drunk preacher. And, yes, there is more. If so, a shame he did. I was told that they are called functional alcoholics, but Im not sure they are alcoholics because they dont fit the stereotype alcoholic or happy drunk image. Sproul, founder of Ligonier Ministries, theologian, author, broadcaster, teacher, and pastor, died December 14, 2017. https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/ask-a-recovering-alcopholic-response-heather-kopp, Alkies drink because thats what Alkies do. What a traumatic experience for a young teen. And yes, God can do anything he wants. In most cases those sins were nothing more than they wanted to leave his church for another church. My thing has always been to understand that the addict is probably hurting others and thats not OK. He died that Wednesday in the afternoon. That is making it something comprehensive rather than case specific. which guy of those 3 would you choose to be stuck with? Sproul, Jr.s case. Without accountability, anything else is worthless. And FWIW as an RN I did mostly OB except for one year in public health with my little black bag in the slums of my home town. What he did was wrong and could have been much worse than it turned out to be. When I was 12yo I began babysitting for a family who regularly attended my church. Christiane wrote: I wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy, including my ex-pastor who did it to me (and the doctor before me and to the woman in finance before him) or the other horrible pastors/elders. But! Leave him alone! She had many other helpful friends, but the church provided a place of special care for all of them. When Barbara starts off her comment with Ha Ha and trots out Scripture verses, and never makes mention of treatment for alcoholism and for the family members, than she will get push back from me too. Perhaps you missed Barbaras comment on Friday at 5:40 p.m. to H.U.G. I sure hope that church members or family members uncover the rest of the sins that have been covered up at St. Peter. OK, where I live most alcoholics go to in-patient treatment. Yet while Scripture condemns drunkenness, it nowhere says that consuming strong drink is in itself evil. It doesnt always work when you are in the Boys Club or RC1s son. On the other hand, theres nothing compelling me to take insulin. Barbara trotted out the classic evangelical line that people with these problems arent real Christians, arent bearing fruit, etc. Abuse is a different issue. At the time Jr. was unmarried and although he knew that she was my wife, he came on to her more than once. Way too many comments here have nothing at all to do with the subject, which is RC Sproul Jr, a wolf in sheeps clothing who has destroyed the lives and faiths of dozens of people and families. Velour was being hostile to a few people up thread such as Barbara and Julie Anne, and later, to me. So that is why I and possibly some others had a visceral reaction of Remove this cancer from the Body once and for all. Does his life bear the mark of a Christian? So, perhaps Paul is assuming that we need to put resources on the brothers and sisters that are really asking for help. Do they choose their friends among other heavy drinkers? No prison time. This is a disease, not a moral failure. Im not seeing how sitting in a church building once a week listening to sermons treats things such as depression or alcoholism. https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/ask-a-recovering-alcopholic-response-heather-kopp, (*I am not endorsing Rachel Held Evans, this is just the website where I found the article.). (Specifically that H.A. Please stop advocating for his children? It would be good if she could be more specific on what this alleged therapy is though. is someone who could benefit from Al-Anon too, for the family and friends of problem drinkers. A commenter from Spinderella Sproul says: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/State-AG-files-13-felony-counts-against-Contra-11220366.php, https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/ask-a-recovering-alcopholic-response-heather-kopp, https://baptistnews.com/article/satisfaction-guaranteed-southern-baptists-refute-efforts-soften-atonement/#.WUxPq-mQzIU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pvpd6wCeM4, http://www.ligonier.org/blog/it-accurate-say-god-died-cross/, https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-use-disorders, http://www.celebraterecoveryfortwayne.com/, https://cryingoutforjustice.com/are-abuse-victims-codependent/, http://ontopofgiants.blogspot.com/2012/06/anne-lamott-on-her-conversion-to.html, http://thewartburgwatch.com/2017/06/21/rc-sproul-jr-is-now-a-convicted-felon-alcoholic-and-is-one-step-away-from-a-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-329600, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukD8zj6ngVY. Sr. CAN cut off the paychecks. Thus if one interprets RC Sproul Jr.s actions as not persevering then according to what they teach Sproul was never a believer. context is key to understanding, though, dont you agree? You are insisting on everyone saying treatment for alcoholics is the way to go (and I agree). If these stories are true, then it is evident that Sproul looked to alcohol for relief from his pain and was able to ignore the fact that he was, in fact, treating his depression. Even Sproul Jr says so. But they also need bona fide help from people who know how to deliver it and are trained in it. More than that, how do you know what their drinking habits are? Apologies for hitting to soon and posting. My specific concern about Barbaras comment, and others like it, is thats NOT how substance abusers are supposed to be handled responded to your comment with a quote from RC Sproul, but the comment is not yet visible, probably because of the words Sproul used. (California) Please explain to us how her logic is flawed. It meant a lot to me. He had always been so nice before, but that made me feel that I couldnt trust him. I wouldnt call it a mixing of apples and oranges. https://rachelheldevans.com/blog/ask-a-recovering-alcopholic-response-heather-kopp. Friends and. Intervention: the RIGHT kind by STRONG people who really care about him is needed before a tragedy unfolds. Barbara could have easily included treatment for alcoholism in her comment. I just see the hope really being in getting people like him into treatment, and getting treatment/support for their family members. He has made some very poor choices, many of which have directly harmed his family. I dont know velour personally but she appears to be as much a person of faith as anyone who posts here. You and I dont have the compulsion to drink, so its easy for us to say just dont drink. But I know of many people including Christians who have fought that battle (alcoholism) mostly in secret. Well,this is one way. There is usually a reason when people have strong feelings of negativity, and this issue triggers emotional responses from many of us Lets Take a Breather With A Bizarre Story about R.C. I sustained serious injuries as well a skull fracture, broken bones, and quite a few cuts (I am blessed that I didnt lose my eyesight because I had lacerations above both eyes). I am a broken, wounded woman, who happens to have different people in my life who cut, starve, purge, overeat, get drunk, medicate with R/X drugs, smoke pot, work themselves ragged, overspend, in hope to silence the agony of depression, intense anxiety, raging self-contempt, hopeless despair, excruciating shame, and (false) guilt. © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 - The Wartburg Watch. I communicated directly with one of his children and received confirmed that this quote was from one of them (and also received permission to post it here). ), Thank you so much for this balanced and compassionate post, George. Based on everything Im reading about this guy in this thread and the OP by various people, (that he joined an adultery site, hes been a bully for years, is authoritarian, he has his church ostracize ex members, etc) are you saying that this bad fruit should be ignored, all because the guy is also an alcoholic? Not saying you are wrong JY, but if you read the entire chapter, including the beginning of chapter six, Paul references the assembly as well, and turning over to Satan. Not everyone is helped through standard mental health professionals. Note, that process was taught by Christ Jesus for ANY believer. We met many times at a local restaurant after car shows. It means please stop adding to what Barbara said. I, too, am very disappointed with the black hole into which this thread has disappeared. and wasnt he the one who had advocated that Christians (his version of it) should watch filthy movies and so on? Not that grief for the lost of his first wife and his father ought to allow him to misbehave while remaining in pastoral ministry, and it certainly doesnt excuse him from a good hard look at things he did while Denise was still living (especially when she hadnt been diagnosed as terminal), but what hes doing is classic signs of grief gone metastatic. Sprowl Funeral Sprowl Funeral and Cremation Care is compassionately serving the family of Richard Mark Williams, 48, who passed away on February 20, 2023. To the contrary, this blog is littered with stories of the failings of 9 Marks, Acts 29, and a plethora of other churches who have inflicted great harm on people before hundreds if not thousands of people. Handling substance abusers in the church requires a multi-pronged approach, best done on the advice of experts in substance abuse who can properly direct the churchs leaders in how to handle it. We all toasted to the bride and groom with a glass of champagne. It is shocking, and saddening to me, that in this day and age, with all that is known about how to help people with addictions, people in the church advocate kicking Christians with addictions out of church as a matter of policy. Wine for all (no grape juicewhat are you, some kind of wimp?) at communion. It wasnt a law back then.. (And the same goes for HUG where he contemptuously described me as righteous.). I know several individuals who consume large amounts of alcohol on a regular basis and seem to have normal lives and hold down great jobs or are self employed. I know the story, but need someone willing to come forward, even anonymously. The churches we worked with said they could not handle the work we did. Like RC2, he drove around drunk with our grandkids in the car. More setting up for But Everybodys Doing It!? Were not mind readers. HUG, precisely Paving the way, so to speak. When you spend so much of your life covering up sins, Im sure there is a need to numb that kind of pain. Ugh. Unbelievable! Soas far as you know they have adequate job performance, soso did Winston Churchill. As far as Sprouls Jrs removal from the church goes, my thoughts would go along the line of will this help him hit rock bottom & genuinely pursue help, given how long he seems to have been drinking?, plus is this a healthy environment for him? Given the propensity of evangelicalism to put the wrong people on a pedestal, encouraging them to continue behaviours which hurt others (i.e. Later it was discovered that his late wife Denise either lived in a town with toxic waste problems or went to a school that had toxic waste problems. Oh, excellent, Nancy2. That he is not qualified to serve as a pastor given his abusive history of church members, former church members, and other disqualifying behaviors; Sproul 2 has his own household and is not part of his fathers household. Her main mistake, perhaps, was not adding more context to indicate that the kicking out was not due *only* to the alcoholism. And one thing an alky can sniff out in a heartbeat is an ignorant person trying to give them advice. RC Jr is all about covenant theology. What does it say of the covenant when all that is necessary to be a covenant member is youve been baptized as an infant but you can go on sinning like the devil with no remorse for your wickedness? I wont go into too much what I was told when I moved back in by my church family, abandoning God, letting the church down, not having the mind of Christ, succumbing to the world, loving my family more than loving God etc. And you disagree that being raised under this theological umbrella could cause problems? (AKA He stops taking showers, the leak stops, think Ill have another Drink) Took a water-collapsed ceiling, him harassing me over the phone, and a resulting court fight (with him suing me for as much as he could and yelling at the judge in the courtroom) before things settled down. Had therapy and continues to do so. RC2 is doing this having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Paul said in this same verse to Avoid such people.. @ Velour: It may be all they can do to get help.. Velour wrote: He made need to be hospitalized and treated by those who are not overly impressed with the Sproul name. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. I took doctor-prescribed anti-depressant meds for years. But at the age of 15, R.C. What it did do is wake him up to his own sins and cause effective change immediately. Ive seen the terrible impacts of alcohol abuse in my family, beginning with just a beer at the picnic to full-fledged alcoholism with many consequences. I wanted to offer God as comfort but my father had had enough of the evangelical/catholic rhetoric from his mother and from our family priest and a war and so on. No, we have theological differences about how people in the church with addictions should be handled kicked out. However, I do appreciate your emphasis on treatment. For Sproul Jr. to only get probation and no prison term must have been the result of having a good lawyer. Drunk/ drug driving maims and kills. Put that drink away now! Here as I type these words, there is a bottle of wine sitting on the kitchen counter within my view. I think that is the kindest thing I can do for them as they are the weaker one/s in this regard. And the steam burns from the radiator explosion on the picture they look like first-degree burns. Not the good-ole boyz club nonsense, no. They have to want it themselves, and desperately so. Dr. R.C. Its all part of that raising the bottom thing you claim to support. She did not show that she had no clue. Youre too quick to take offense because youre reading things that havent even been said. For me these people are PURE EVIL!! I've enclosed a letter from Lael Hill, the Indiana State coordinator for MADD who I've been in contact with. Psychiatric evaluation with continuing monitoring to help with alcohol abuse as self-med for suffering from unresolved pain brought on by deep grief. Its hard here to put everything in words, but I really dont think we are very far apart on this issue. Sproul Jr. 16 A Theologian from the Burgh Stephen J. Nichols 28 A Shepherd of God's People Burk Parsons 32 A Friend and Father in the Faith Sinclair B. Ferguson 38 Faithful to the End W. Robert Godfrey Meet Again Miguel Nez An Unashamed Herald . I tried really hard to help and could not. In fact, why dont you just ask her opinion of treatment? She needed that love. So behind the times.). The pain is awful, particularly when loved ones have been snatched away because someone foolishly chose to drink and drive. Either way you need to stop putting words in other peoples mouths. That is where God met me and my family member. Velour was strongly pushing people on this thread for a good long time regardless of motive, which none of us were privy too until someone much later on asked her if this topic triggered her in some fashion. People think they have far more impact than they do re: what they can control re: an addict, and they think they have far less control than they do re: what they themselves can do to reduce the impact of the addict. We are, after all, all Christians here, and are called to bear one anothers burdens. If one has not read the Adult children of alcoholic books, dont consider yourself educated on this matter. There are too many cases where churches have stepped in and made a bad situation only worse. If RC Jr could have legally used the rack at St. Peter Presbyterian Im confident he would have, at the very least, held out the threat of its use. For it to happen they almost always have to have hit rock bottom. or covetous, [going after what belongs to others] 3. That does not mean that we do not also think that he should get treatment for the good of his children and his wife and the community at large. This rare disease is profoundly disabling and usually results in an early death. R C Sproul Junior needs to be put out of the church and that needs to be very publicly done because he has been so significant at Ligonier. The accusation about St. Peter Presbyterian Church being a cult and RC Sproul Jr being a cult leader was widely assumed for years in Bristol, Virginia especially among pastors in the area. Sr. CAN cut off the paychecks. Barbara simply made some kind of reference to Scripture about biblical discipline that you dont agree with. To paraphrase a 1950s interview with a trailer-trash Ku Kluxer: and me nasty too and to the whole understanding of the complexity of the problems. Please work on that. He does need to work on getting clean and sober and cleaning up his own life, and the wreckage of his past as they say in recovery programs. R.C. . A different opinion here, perhaps, or a different way of looking at this. The church can also play an important role, and probably has the financial resources, to get Sproul 2 into a treatment program and to come alongside his children and second wife and get them help too. None of the doctors ever diagnosed the root of my problem. She said, he needs to be born again as this persistent pattern of behaviour shows he is NOT regenerate and is NOT in Christ at all. In my view and experience with RC Jr shes absolutely correct. The street is a two-laner through Fifties-vintage tract homes, and I was eastbound somewhere between Brookhurst & Euclid when I noticed the headlights coming towards me looked WRONG. I even opened up to church people about some of the problems I had but was met with platitudes and put downs, not support. And its important to try. ALBERT SPROUL OBITUARY SPROUL ALBERT J. SPROUL, age 81 of Willowick. I know someone who has been banned from Barbaras blog for using the term codependency, which Barbara doesnt permit. Alcoholism is an excuse to drink and every alcoholic in the world usually tries to find an excuse to drink.<<. You want to see whence my fury? That feels like another put down and Im really uncomfortable with it. I really loved my father very much and he gave more for his family in deeper ways than most of the superhero folks that command such respect in the franchises from what I have observed. Free Pass : Professional 501(c)3 Pastoral Improper Judgement Permit Provided? If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Velour, is there anything in our conversation that has triggered an old experience for you? We were basically a para church ministry. When your theology is based on exclusionary principles, you have to accept the consequences when that sword cuts the other direction. Do people who have alcoholism or other issues get passes from rules and standards that apply to everyone else? In other words, my daughters brain tumor was a disease that was not caused by her behavior or the behavior of those around her. This is normal for their family. I always encourage people who need help to see professionals. Relationships and social interactions matter to many people. Please go back and read my comment to you. Maybe feeling comfortable is too much to expect when something is not ready to be shared. You and Barbara Roberts have never said, You know, I have no clue how to deal with substance abuse. She stated in her comment to H.U.G. Thanks! (caps and emphasis intended). I liked the way he was thinking and agreed with his conclusions and really liked the way he dealt with the problem and the patient. I was about to defend you, until I saw the word livers in there. I never laughed so hard in my life as reading that book. Not always. Have you not caught up? I think it is best to take this argument back a bit. it is not the same as a disease which is not brought on by the choice of behavior. They simply didnt give an opinion about it in that comment. Robert Charles Sproul was born February 13, 1939, in Pittsburgh, the son of Robert Cecil and Mayre Ann (n e Yardis) Sproul. That is odd. I have never contacted any poster here privately and asked them to clarify their views. You arent making any sense in your belief that were all supposed to intuit what Barbara is thinking and therefore she doesnt have to say it. 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