"One thing that's really important is that for Marty or Joshua, either one, this isn't the end of the story," Bickle says. "I mean, good guys have hard moments. So, I don't look at this and say 'This is that. It's over.' I say, 'No, Marty, Jesus loves you. We love you. We're standing with you as a human being, as a Believer in the Body of Christ all these years.' Yeah, you have a hard moment. You might say, 'Hey, it's more. I've already made some decisions.' But I know our heavenly Father, and there's a cry in your heart for the Lord.

"So, this isn't the end of the story. We continue like we've always done: we show love and support. I don't mean support of wrong ideas, but support of the quest, the struggle, the journey. Because we're going to be there together in the ups and the downs. The Bible clearly talks about a falling away in the generation the Lord returns, but that doesn't mean [for] every individual that has a huge setback [that it's] the final chapter of their life. I'm still praying and believing, and if I had the chance to talk to them, I'd show love. I'd hug them. I'd say, 'Man, your hearts are hurting. I get it. I see a cry for honesty and integrity and being genuine. That is good. But there's some wrong answers to that right cry. But again, the wrong answers aren't always the final answers.'"

Bickle added later that it's important to "honor the authentic questions, because truth is never hurt by questioning it." Yet, he encourages Believers who are strong in the faith not to lose heart when they see Christian leaders falling.

"Yes, some are stumbling and they don't have the answers and they're embracing wrong answers—but millions are not," he says. "So, I would say we don't look at this one stumbling and say, 'That's my future.' We look at the one stumbling with compassion and tenderness, and if we're grounded in the world in a Biblical community of godly relationships ... we can make it through those hard times together"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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