With the televised confession of the Bethel Senior Leadership team, and the subsequent letter that was sent out, the responses are sharply divided. The concern I have is that we as people are revealing our hearts by our response to their hearts confession.

As I watched the service at 10:30am yesterday online, I heard the Lord say as Kris and Bill publicly confessed their sins, mistakes and leadership mishaps, I heard the Lord say, “This is what it looks like when fathers weep”. This morning I read what Jeremiah Johnson put out, which was of weeping willows with harps dream on Discernment Drive.

Now this morning, the verses that came up in my spirit as I was thinking about this public confession and repentance from leaders in the church who have a global reach. The verse I heard was Luke 18:9-14.

“To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people; robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’ I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Whether they are your personal leaders or not, they are leaders in the church globally. Their music and messages have altered the narrative of the church and their repentance is reverberating in the atmosphere of the body of Christ. Our response to the sound of repentance and fathers weeping reveals a lot about our hearts. Listen to what you are saying and thinking as you listen to what they are repenting of. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org