On the Adulterous Affair of Ravi Zacharias and the Cover-Up

There are actually several scandals here which the Christian Church – and in particular, the evangelical community – need to address. Ravi Zacharias is a noted apologist who is famous worldwide for defending theism and Christianity. The reason we address these issues isn’t to hurt the church’s testimony, but to demonstrate that the Christian Church, having a perfectly capable Savior, can confess our sins and be forgiven. When we don’t address our own scandals, the world will, and it demonstrates we aren’t fully confident in our own religion that revolves around the concept of repentance, faith, and absolution.

First, the facts.

Zacharias engaged in what was at least an extramarital emotional affair with a woman not his wife. The text messages released to the public demonstrate this, and Zacharias has not denied it, and has indeed indicated that it was true.

Zacharias attempted to cover-up the affair and threatened – so it seems – to commit suicide if the woman confessed to her husband.

Zacharias has engaged in credential-puffing, using the title ‘Dr’ when his doctorate degrees are bestowed to him as a matter of honorary overtures and not because he’s earned them in an academic setting. This scandal isn’t the subject matter of this post, and it should suffice it to say that people need to be careful when giving themselves titles that they didn’t earn, either by gifting or by buying them from diploma mills. Unfortunately, Zacharias has gone beyond flaunting not-really-real degrees and has made up other academic credentials, like non-existent work at Cambridge and Oxford and manufacturing claims of being the department chair of academic departments that never existed. However, this issue has been more widely reported, for some years, and has probably been beaten to death. If you’d like more information, you can find it all here.

What’s of more significance is that few Christian publications have written about the adultery of one of the most – if not the most – prominent Christian apologists in the world. When the Christian Press has covered the topic, they have done so only in the most shallow of ways, mostly refusing to publish the evidence and allowing Zacharias or his ministry to dismiss the concerns without any moderately tough questions asked. While probably done in an attempt to help the witness of Christianity, it only hurts in a world full of people who are already skeptical about our claims of forgiveness in Jesus.

In fact, there’s a real-life scenario which illustrates the attitude of the Christian industrial establishment when it comes to Ravi Zacharias. First Baptist Church in Jacksonville recently hosted Zacharias at its pastors conference and bestowed to him a lifetime ministry award (from what we hear, the real ones come in the eschaton). An attendee sought to question Mac Brunson about this but was prevented from doing so by his son, Trey Brunson. The man’s name is Jim Lutzweiler, a Baptist, historian, and was doing little more than asking for clarification. Seeking to ask the question caused him to receive the left boot of fellowship.

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