Allow me to begin by stating a few important facts. I fully understand that what I am sharing comes from the perspective of someone whose ministry is not considered large, widely influential, or platform-driven by modern standards. I recognize that reality, and honestly, I have no issue with the absence of a massive platform or expansive reach. Those things do not disqualify me from having something meaningful to say.
It should also be clearly stated that I have never personally met either of the two men in the image that I used for this blog. Also, I have never had a private conversation with either of them. Everything I know concerning this situation has come through the public content they themselves have chosen to release, whether through videos, statements, interviews, or social media posts.
At the same time, because these matters have been addressed publicly through their own platforms, I am likewise choosing to respond publicly within my own personal space on social media. My purpose is not to create further division, outrage, or unnecessary controversy, but to speak thoughtfully, biblically, and honestly concerning the broader spiritual and cultural issues that these situations continue to reveal within the Body of Christ.
I Did Want to Share This
Over the last several years, the rise of social media exposure culture has deeply affected the Church. While biblical accountability is both necessary and commanded in Scripture, much of what is taking place today no longer reflects the spirit of restoration found in the Word of God. Instead, correction has often been replaced with spectacle, outrage, and public humiliation.
Please allow me be crystal clear…this is not a call to ignore sin, excuse abuse, or avoid difficult conversations. Sin must be confronted. Victims must be protected. Leaders must be held accountable. However, the manner in which many believers now approach exposure, controversy, and failure reveals that something deeper is happening within the culture of the Church.
The question we must ask ourselves is this: Are we handling accountability according to the heart of God, or according to the appetite of public opinion?
Accountability vs. Exposure Culture
Accountability was never meant to become public entertainment. Somewhere along the way, correction became confused with cancellation, repentance became secondary, and restoration was replaced by humiliation.
The Body of Christ is called to hold one another accountable according to the Word of God, not according to online outrage, reactionary emotion, or the applause of a social media mob.
Biblical accountability should always seek redemption, while worldly exposure will only seek destruction.
Too often today, exposure itself has become the goal. Rather than seeking to restore a brother or sister, many rush to dismantle reputations, destroy ministries, and publicly shame individuals before allowing room for repentance or reconciliation. In many cases, the culture surrounding “calling people out” has become more about influence, attention, reactions, and platform growth than genuine biblical correction.
Scripture presents accountability very differently. Its purpose is conviction, repentance, healing, restoration, and truth. Believers are commanded to “speak the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15, NASB) and to restore those caught in sin “in a spirit of gentleness” while also examining themselves lest they too be tempted (Galatians 6:1, NASB).
Believers have to recognize that accountability without mercy becomes legalism, and exposure without redemption becomes cruelty disguised as righteousness.
The Purpose of Biblical Correction
Jesus Himself established a biblical process for correction in Matthew 18:15–17. The process begins privately before it ever becomes public. Why? Because the goal was never humiliation. The goal was repentance, restoration, and the winning back of a brother or sister.
There is a profound difference between confronting sin and exploiting failure.
One is driven by love and truth. The other is often fueled by pride, bitterness, self-righteousness, or the desire to appear spiritually superior. Genuine accountability grieves over sin because it understands the damage sin causes to people, families, ministries, and the testimony of Christ. Public spectacle, however, often celebrates collapse.
This does not mean there is never a place for public rebuke. Scripture also teaches that leaders who continue in unrepentant sin are to be rebuked openly because of the influence they carry (1 Timothy 5:20, NASB). At the same time, even biblical rebuke must still carry the spirit of truth, justice, sobriety, and redemption.
Scripture never gives believers the freedom to destroy the character, dignity, or humanity of another person simply to satisfy the outrage of the crowd.
When Exposure Becomes Entertainment
One of the most troubling developments in recent years is the overwhelming amount of content built around public exposure. The phrase, “I didn’t want to make this video,” has become increasingly common, yet many of these videos are consumed, promoted, monetized, and celebrated with remarkable enthusiasm.
What may have once begun as sincere concern or righteous caution has, in many situations, developed into a self-appointed authority fueled by the mob of public opinion. The pursuit of clicks, validation, reactions, and influence has replaced the fear of the Lord in many places within Christian culture.
The danger is not simply exposure itself. The danger is what exposure culture is producing within the hearts of believers.
When people celebrate “gotcha” moments more than testimonies of repentance, restoration, and transformation, it reveals a dangerous spiritual condition. There is nothing victorious about watching a believer fall into sin, deception, compromise, or failure. There is no triumph in the collapse of a marriage, a ministry, a calling, or a testimony.
At the very moment that exposure becomes entertainment, discernment begins to die.
The Pharisees demonstrated this spirit when they dragged the woman caught in adultery into the public square in John 8. Their goal was not righteousness. Their goal was spectacle, accusation, and destruction. Jesus responded differently. While He never excused her sin, neither did He participate in public humiliation. Instead, He confronted the hypocrisy of the accusers and created space for repentance and transformation.
Conviction led to her repentance, not public celebration.
Justice, Abuse, and Biblical Responsibility
None of this means silence in the face of abuse, corruption, manipulation, or criminal behavior. Nor should grace, mercy, or restoration ever be used to minimize sin or silence victims. The Church must never protect platforms more than people.
Scripture commands believers to “seek justice, rebuke the oppressor” (Isaiah 1:17, NASB). Victims must be heard. Abuse must never be ignored in order to preserve reputation, influence, or ministry success.
At the same time, we must also recognize that the thirst for public exposure has become increasingly prevalent, and much of it is no longer being handled according to the standards of God’s Word, but rather for the approval of the social media crowd.
As mentioned earlier, Matthew 18 is frequently quoted in these conversations, and rightly so, but it must also be interpreted correctly. Jesus specifically said, “If your brother sins against you…” (Matthew 18:15, NASB). The context is personal offense and relational conflict. This does not mean that every situation involving abuse, criminal activity, corruption, or public disqualification should be handled privately without witnesses, leadership involvement, or proper authority.
Scripture itself provides examples of public rebuke when sin affects the broader Body or when leadership abuses influence. However, even then, the goal is never public annihilation.
Throughout Scripture, even in God’s strongest rebukes, there remains an invitation to repent, return, and be restored. The prophets warned nations. Jesus rebuked cities and religious leaders. The letters in Revelation confronted compromise directly. Yet repeatedly, God still extended the opportunity for repentance to those willing to obey Him.
The mob will always demand for the destruction of others. God always calls for repentance for the purpose of redemption.
The crowd often seeks permanent condemnation, but the heart of God seeks restoration wherever repentance is genuine, without compromising truth or justice.
Repentance and Restoration
Repentance cannot merely be claimed; it must be demonstrated. John the Baptist declared, “Therefore bear fruit in keeping with repentance” (Matthew 3:8, NASB).
Biblical repentance produces visible fruit. It reveals itself through humility, confession, accountability, submission to truth, and a consistent change in conduct over time. Genuine repentance does not resist accountability; it welcomes it.
At the same time, forgiveness and restoration are not always identical to the immediate reinstatement of authority. Trust, once broken, must often be rebuilt through proven integrity and tested character.
Scripture teaches that leaders are held to a higher standard. James 3:1 warns, “Let not many of you become teachers… knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment” (NASB). Because leadership carries influence, repentance and restoration must be approached with wisdom, patience, discernment, and biblical accountability.
Mercy does not eliminate responsibility, and grace does not remove the need for integrity.
Discernment requires more than reaction to public moments. When we have never personally known or walked closely with an individual, we must be careful about drawing sweeping conclusions from a distance. Fruit is inspected over time, through consistent life and character, not merely through isolated moments presented publicly in selective clips, public narratives, or brief online glimpses.
A Personal Conviction
This issue is not merely theological to me, it is deeply personal.
I have always wanted my children to learn how to live a life of integrity according to the Word of God. I have taught them: say what you mean, but you better mean what you say. Jesus taught, “Let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’” (Matthew 5:37, NASB).
Integrity is not simply about words. It is about character, honesty, consistency, and living truthfully before God and people.
I have also raised my children to celebrate the victories of others because when your own victories come, there will be others ready to celebrate with you. Romans 12:15 teaches believers to “rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep” (NASB).
A heart that celebrates restoration, healing, breakthrough, and redemption reflects the heart of the Kingdom.
But today, my heart breaks as I read comment after comment from people celebrating exposures, failures, and collapses. In those moments, I cannot help but remember the biblical principle that “whatever a man sows, this he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7, NASB).
A Church that feeds on public destruction will eventually become consumed by the very culture it created.
The Kingdom Standard
Yes, leaders must be accountable. Yes, sin must be confronted. Yes, truth matters.
But if our process lacks humility, prayer, wisdom, love, and the hope of redemption, then we have moved away from the spirit of Christ and into the culture of condemnation. The goal of correction should never be destruction.
Even when God rebukes, His desire is redemption. Ezekiel 33:11 declares, “‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live’” (NASB).
The Church must not become addicted to exposure. We are called to truth. We are called to holiness. We are called to accountability. But we are also called to mercy.
Protecting the wounded, confronting sin, testing repentance, and pursuing restoration are not opposing values within the Kingdom. They are necessary expressions of biblical justice and the heart of God.
The Kingdom of God was never built on public humiliation, viral outrage, or the celebration of failure. It was built upon truth without compromise, holiness without hypocrisy, correction without cruelty, and redemption without partiality.
“Mercy triumphs over judgment” (James 2:13, NASB).
