Highpoint Church Teaching Pastor Andy Savage’s refusal to admit that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl while he was her youth pastor 20 years ago makes him guilty of “sin-leveling,” a Netherlands-based discipleship director argued.
“Savage seems to see what he did to Jules as being the same as two unmarried adults having consensual sex: a common indiscretion that requires repentance but not jail time,” Becky Castle Miller, who also serves as a writer and speaker on mental and emotional health, wrote on the Jesus Creed blog. “The view that all sins are equivalent is called sin-leveling. It’s a problematic perspective because it only considers God’s moral law, not the damage on another person nor the breaking of civil laws.
Savaging confessing to sexual impurity with Jules Woodson but not to sexual assault means that churches “don’t understand sex crimes,” Miller argued.
“Applied to sex, sin-leveling sees rape as no different from premarital fooling around. The sin is between the person and God, God is the only one who needs to give a response, and if the sinner repents to God, he is forgiven, and the sin is forgotten,”…
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