“An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.” – Titus 1:6
In May 2022, Dr. Charles E. Brown, a retired Mobile pastor, was falsely tied to the Southern Baptist Convention sexual abuser list by a local news outlet.
“In a three-minute newscast, 80 years of my life and ministry went down the tubes,” said Charles.
The correction reported by the television station during the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts the same day stated, “In our story, we identified the names of church leaders from our area who were on the Southern Baptist Convention’s alleged sex abuser list … the names identified and their church affiliations were correct, however, the picture we showed for one of the people on that list was not.”
That’s where the two names were mixed up. The Charles Brown on the list is not the Dr. Charles E. Brown who retired from Government Street Baptist Church in Mobile earlier this year after nearly 45 years as pastor.
How the reporter who developed the story determined the Charles Brown of London Baptist in 1987 was the same Dr. Charles E. Brown who now serves as pastor emeritus of Government Street Baptist in Mobile is unclear.
The blameless Dr. Charles E. Brown said: “I tried to redeem as much of my morality and my character as I could.”
No matter what life throws our way, we should seek to be blameless in all that we do. Today in prayer, thank the Lord that when we follow Him, we can be blameless.
“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
God’s Word: “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.” – Genesis 17:1
Fair, 67°