Yesterday morning the Lord spoke to me and said, “Giants are falling, microphones are being abandoned.” No context, just a statement, I knew I was take notice of. Two hours later, I get sent an article about yet another Christian leader who is the head of a mega church, possibly the largest in the United States who has stepped down due to sexual misconduct. Now the statement from the Lord makes sense to me, “Giants are falling, microphones are being abandoned.”

Church when news like this comes out and it will come out more an more, we must act with maturity not naturally. Naturally we want to make assumptions of facts we have not been told, we want to cast stones and we may even want to walk away from any church, but those are all initial natural and understandable reactions. However, maturity doesn’t get moved when giants fall and microphones are abandoned, maturity asks questions. What is the reason for this coming out now if it happened “x” number of years ago? How come some giants are submitting, confessing and stepping down, while others are defiant, resistant and standing their ground with microphone in hand despite what has been brought to light? One other question to ask is, why is it happening now? What is the meta narrative God is speaking through these situations we are hearing about on earth?

We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I realize leaders are held to a higher standard and are judged more strictly, but we are not privy to all the information so we cannot be judge or jury for we are only reading headlines. I am not condoning anything, I am calling for believers to remember two things, one we live in glass houses so we should not cast a stone and two Jesus said, He who has been forgiven much loves much and our job is to forgive, not be naive, but forgive them, for every time a giant falls and a microphone is abandoned it is a disgrace to the name of our God, who is Light and in whom there is no darkness at all.