More details have come to the surface following Steve Lawson’s step down from Trinity Bible Church of Dallas.
As The Roys Report discovered, the woman with whom Lawson had a relationship with was “a student at The Master’s College” during the time frame that she and Lawson “were engaged in this adulterous affair.”
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Lawson was a previous dean at Grace Community Church’s The Master’s University and Seminary. Phil Johnson, a pastor at Grace Community Church, which is led by John MacArthur, gave a lengthy statement detailing the background of this relationship.
“What I said is that she does not live close to any of Lawson’s ministries. Obviously, given that they were having an affair, there were adjacent to one another at SOME point, so a picture of her sitting next to him doesn’t actually nullify the facts of what I said,” Johnson wrote, clarifying some of his previous comments.
The point is that this was not a case of pastoral abuse as defined by Texas law. She was not a parishioner of his. Her family…were donors to Lawson’s ministry and personal friends with him, and that is how the connection was made. On more than occasion he even stayed in their home while he was in California. She was a consenting adult in her mid-twenties when the relationship began. She was also a student at The Master’s College during some of the time that they were engaged in the adulterous affair. But her connection with him originally came through her family’s relationship with Lawson and had nothing to do with her student status.
Believers should take this time to pray for Lawson, the woman and all the congregants who have been affected by this situation.
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
