Children turned away from church while sex offender preaches

I'm all for people being restored. The restoration of evangelist Bob Harrington, the father of two very prominent Southern Baptist women, is fairly well known. I heard him preach not long after his restoration. A little eccentric, carrying around a little toilet bowl toy that he would pull out whenever he had a bad thought and PLUNK, the toilet flushing sound would begin. I never heard him before his fall, as that happened mostly before I was born, but from reports I imagine that he was a man of God and used by God to win many souls to the Lord.

The whole issue of "backsliding" is pretty baptistic. It's even in the BF&M. The reason we hold to it is because we see people backsliding in the Bible and we hold strongly to the perseverance of the saints.