Gateway Church Apologizes Again, Olympic Opening Ceremony Perversion and Tragedy Strikes Gospel Group

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Gateway Church issues another apology.

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The Olympic Opening Ceremony celebrates Antichrist perversion and tragedy strikes award-winning gospel group.

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I'm John Madarazzo for CharismaNews.com and these are your Midweek Rundown Stories.

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Starting with this, Gateway Church has issued another apology to Cindy Klemisher.

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In this last weekend's service, Gateway Church has given an apology to Cindy Klemisher about the sexual abuse she endured as a child from former Gateway Church pastor Robert Morris.

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Gateway Elder Trey Wilbanks gave the apology to Klemisher before the start of the July 27th message at the church.

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He says, We felt it was important to address Cindy Klemisher one more time.

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Cindy, in case you are watching, we want to again apologize to you on behalf of our entire church for the years of pain that you have endured.

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We are sorry for our initial communication, which was clearly incorrect.

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You were a child, not a young lady. Additionally, two weeks ago, Gateway released a statement saying that this was, quote, an inappropriate relationship.

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This statement was not correct either.

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To be clear, we believe that this was sexual abuse of a child.

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Any description falling short of that does not reflect our position. I'm sorry that we got that communication wrong.

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Right now, Max Lucado and Joaquin Lundquist are set to take on interim pastoral responsibilities for the next six months at Gateway while the church searches for a new senior pastor.

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Joaquin Lundquist has a book coming out soon called Shine Your Light, and I recently released an interview that I did with Max Lucado for his children's book, just in case you ever feel alone.

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You can see that on our YouTube channel. The link to read this article is in the description for this video.

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Our next article is by Dr. Michael Brown, the Olympic opening ceremony and celebrating perversity.

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For the last 20 years, when it comes to LGBTQ people and issues, Brown says, I have followed this simple directive from the Lord.

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Reach out and resist, meaning reach out to the people with compassion. Resist the agenda with courage.

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Or put another way, and now in the title of a forthcoming book, we should have the hearts of compassion and backbones of steel.

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And you can read all of his comments in the article here, and that link will be in the description below.

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Let us know what you think about the Olympic opening ceremonies in the comments.

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And tragedy strikes gospel music Hall of Fame quartet.

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Tragedy struck as three members of the award winning gospel quartet, the Neelans, were killed in a plane crash.

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The victims include Jason Clark and his wife, Kelly, Nellyn Clark, along with their daughter, Amber Kessler, and her husband, Nathan Kessler.

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Also on board were Melody Hodges, pilot Larry Hainey, and his wife, Melissa. There were no survivors.

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The group was en route to the Gaither homecoming cruise to Alaska when the crash occurred.

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The youngest daughter of the Clark's, Autumn Neelans, Streetman, released a statement following the news of the crash.

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As many of you have heard by now, my father and mother, Jason and Kelly, Nellyn Clark, along with my sister, Amber, and brother-in-law, Nathan,

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as well as our dear friends, Melody Hodges, Larry and Melissa Hainey, were involved in a tragic plane crash on Friday.

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She said, thank you for your prayers that have been extended already to me, my husband, Jamie, and our soon to be born baby boy,

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as well as Jason's parents, Dan and Linda Clark. We appreciate your continued prayers, love, and support as we navigate the coming days.

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Please keep the families in your prayers as they mourn. I'm John Madarazzo for CharismaNews.com.

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This is your Midweek Rundown. God bless you.