Matthew Jernigan
Claims to fame: Church youth volunteer, Heartland Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; accused rapist of young boys
Moral apex: Charged with two counts of child rape, two counts of aggravated sexual battery and two counts of aggravated sexual battery by an authority figure, April 3, 2009. See “Police: Youth ministry volunteer raped two boys,” Knoxville News Sentinel, April 7, 2009.
Current status: Originally held on $500,000 bond at Rutherford County Adult Detention Center. At a preliminary hearing May 14, 2009, General Sessions Court Judge David Loughry dismissed the charge of two counts of aggravated sexual battery by an authority figure, lowered the bond to $200,000, and sent the two counts of aggravated sexual battery to a grand jury, to let them decide whether or not to indict Jernigan.
Memorable observation:
What is it about Christian leaders being unable to keep their hands off children? … Maybe I missed the service where they explained how the bible says to get into heaven one must bugger little kids. …Already Christians here in Tennessee are trying to spin the fact that he was a church youth minister. …
It is truly sad sad how Christians are in denial that, statistically, they are no different, if not worse, than the rest of society when it comes to committing crimes. They even try to use tragedies like this as an example of why homosexuals are evil and as an excuse to deny them equal marriage rights under the law because it will destroy the institution of marriage. With a divorce rate of over sixty percent and such a large portion of the population being Christian it is clear how these people believe in the sanctity of marriage.
Instead of passing the blame to another group with different beliefs Christians should just accept the facts and try to learn why so many children are being abused by church members. I’m sure it’s embarrassing for Christians but they need to face the fact that this is a widespread problem in all denominations and do something to protect the children instead trying to pass the fault.
— TN Atheist, April 7, 2009
Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Jernigan:
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.— Luke 17:2
Suggested Bible reading for Judge David Loughry:
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.— Proverbs 15:7
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The Bridegroom comes, Come out to meet him. Matt. 25:6.
From where shall we go out? We shall go out of the great
Babylon, the great whore. Rev. Chapter 17 and 18. This
command of the Lord in Rev. 18:4 is now highly topical.
Never before we have been so nearly Jesus’ coming as we
are now, but how are God’s people prepared? How is the
unity in the faith? Sorry, very bad! God’s people are more
divided now than ever before. Instead of following what
the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God, they have
followed Satan’s false assembly doctrine. They believe
that the Assembly of God is constituted of church systems
and many religious organizations.
Most Christians have not yet begun to prepare for Jesus’
coming. They can speak and write that Jesus shall come,
and about the signs of the time, yet they do not make any
preparation to meet Jesus. How can we make a preparation?
To make preparation and be ready for Jesus’ coming, God’s
people must get the knowledge of the Assembly of God.
All God’s people must in the first hand begin to study what
the Bible teaches about the Assembly of God. What we
need now before the restoration of the Assembly of God,
it is humility before God’s word and a forgivable disposition
to each other.
The Assembly of God is no Pentecostal church. Please,
consider what this expression “the Assembly of God” in the
reality implies. The Assembly of God must be the same as
the Greek word “ekklesia”, and the Body of Christ. 1 Cor.
12:12-31. Then it is easy to understand that this has nothing
to do with the Pentecostal Movement. Pentecostal churches
have existed about 100 years, but the Assembly of God has
ever existed since Jesus baptized his first disciples by the
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gave them the new life in Christ
so that they became born anew. Then the Assembly of God
was born.
The Bridegroom comes, Come out to meet him
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Evil spirits in the churches
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The great Apostasy
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The exodus of God’s people from Babylon the great
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