On a pedestal! Between the Parishioner and God?
只有一位 神，在 神和人中间，只有一位中保，乃是降世为人的基督耶稣。 (提摩太前书 2:5b)
认识你独一的真 神、并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督，这就是永生。 (约翰福音 17:3)
惟有你们是被拣选的族类，是有君尊的祭司，是圣洁的国度，是属 神的子民， 要叫你们宣扬那召你们出黑暗入奇妙光明者的美德。 (彼得前书 2:9)
那召你们的既是圣洁，你们在一切所行的事上也要圣洁。 (彼得前书 1:15)
你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的 神是圣洁的。 (利未记 19:2b)
不可心里恨你的弟兄，总要指摘你的邻舍，免得因他担罪。 (利未记 19:17)
耶稣叫他们来对他们说：“你们知道，外邦人有尊为君王的，治理他们，有大臣操权管束他们。 只是在你们中间，不是这样；你们中间，谁愿为大，就必作你们的用人； 在你们中间，谁愿为首，就必作众人的仆人。 因为人子来，并不是要受人的服事，乃是要服事人，并且要舍命，作多人的赎价。” (马可福音 10:42-45)
"Our clergy persons now have a much better understanding that they have the power," says Melton. "They stand between the parishioner and God in a lot of people's minds, whether the clergy person articulates it or not."
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When Sharon, a former director of Christian education for her church, was sexually mistreated by her boss, the senior pastor, she learned the dilemma victims face in coming forward with an allegation. "When I finally got up the courage to tell anyone what was happening to me at work, one response I got was, 'Don't say anything; it's a nice church.' Pastors are put up on a pedestal, and no one wants to believe that they could do anything like this," Sharon explains.
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Sharon quit her job, and for years following her ordeal, she stayed away from church. Gently, her old friends invited her back into fellowship. "I knew there wasn't going to be a perfect church out there," she explains. "All churches have problems. For me, I learned the hard way that I would need to be responsible for setting my own boundaries."
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A new study of self-described "active Christian women" shows more than a quarter personally experienced sexually inappropriate behavior, and one fourth of those that experienced it said it happened in a church or ministry setting.
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The survey shows a relatively low number of occurrences of sexual harassment in churches or ministry workplaces. Only two percent of respondents who work in a church or ministry setting say their employment was contingent upon dates or sexual favors. This number goes up sharply in the secular world: 22 percent of women reported "quid pro quo" harassment.
Source: Sexual Misconduct at Church, Your Church Magzine, July/August 2008