David Scarberry, Homophobic Revival City Church scandal not being reported by the Dallas Morning News.
I waited to see if they would run an article and so far they haven't. Maybe the Dallas Morning News solution to church scandals is to not report them.
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The ongoing church scandals have become an item of national interest.
No Paywall. New York Times, Oct. 3, 2024, “Around Dallas, the Church Scandals Seem to Have No End.”
Dallas Observer article.
This seems to have embarrassed the Dallas establishment and afterwards I am noticing that some stories aren’t making it to the Dallas Morning News.
I can’t report that the Dallas Morning News omitted the homophobia of the organization, since they didn’t report it at all.
David Scarberry of Revival City Church in McKinney, Texas arrested.
These are the news stories.
WFAA, Channel 8, Oct. 3, 2024, “Church leader in Collin County arrested on family violence charge: police report.”
COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — An outreach leader at a church in Collin County arrested this week on a family violence charge had a protective order filed against him by his ex-wife and has a criminal record in Oklahoma that includes convictions on drug and weapons charges, court records show.
David Scarberry, 53, an evangelistic outreach leader at Revival City Church in McKinney according to their website, was arrested on a complaint of continuous violence against the family, according to a police report.
KERA, Oct. 2, 2024, “Church leader arrested in Collin County had previous weapons conviction.”
But no news article I could find by the Dallas Morning News.
Online Presence of Revival City Church
His page is still up at the church.
https://revival-city.com/david-scarberry
What they believe.
https://revival-city.com/what-we-believe
Social Media.
https://www.youtube.com/@revivalcitychurch3599
https://www.instagram.com/revivalcitytx
https://www.facebook.com/revivalcitytx
Homophobia
On this page you find that they are affiliated with the Bethel Leaders Network, another network, Catch the Fire and A.R.M.I - Andrew Wommack Association
https://revival-city.com/global-legacy
Also, they do a process which they call Sozo.
It is when you investigate further into their affiliations to discover who they really are is when you find their position on homosexuality.
Bethel Leaders Network.
https://www.bethelleadersnetwork.com/
August 26, 2019, “Bethel Church on Homosexuality: Jesus Showed Us How to Disagree But Love.” It is about the Changed website set up by the Bethel church.
“We believe God is on a mission to make Himself known. And He is using the most controversial, unlikely and provocative topics—homosexuality and gender identity—to do it,” Changed’s website reads.
For the past few weeks, Bethel has been posting short testimonies of people who once identified as LGBTQ+ but have since left that lifestyle behind. One such testimony is from Daniel Delgado, who writes:
Williams and Woning say they “know hundreds” of people who have left an LGBTQ lifestyle behind. They also know “a lot” of people who have not left the lifestyle behind—even people who have come to Bethel for help.
It is about getting Lesbians and Gays to leave being Lesbian and Gay.
This is Bethel’s Changed page.
https://www.bethel.com/ministries/changed
The Changed Founders have this video about leaving behind homosexuality.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=717670118663324
This is their webpage. This is the title of the page, “WE LEFT LGBTQ+ BECAUSE WE WANTED TO.”
CHANGED was founded by Ken Williams and Elizabeth Woning to highlight the beautiful and compelling stories of men and women whose journeys with Jesus drew them out of LGBTQ. Overseeing the growing CHANGED Movement, they work to open doors of dialogue that offer insight into the complexity of LGBTQ identity and seek to protect alternatives to that subculture.
https://changedmovement.com/founders
Catch the Fire
Catch the Fire Houston has this postcast, “Freedom from Homosexuality.”
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/catch-the-fire/freedom-from-homosexuality-VzEenumONBg/
Out in Perth had a report on them, “Who Are 'Catch The Fire' Ministries?”
The US based group has been labeled an anti gay hate group by the respected Southern Poverty Law Centre.
While the Human Rights Campaign described them as “one of the most influential groups in America promoting and coordinating the exportation of anti-LGBT bigotry, ideology, and legislation abroad.”
On their website the World Coalition of Families states that they are against hate laws, against granting legal recognition to people who identify with a “gender that is not their own”, opposed to marriage equality and do not believe that homosexuality is an innate quality or has a genetic component. The group is also supportive of Russia’s Child Protection laws that make any reference to homosexuality where people under 18 may be illegal. The group argues that these laws are not specificly anti-gay but cover a wide range of topics.
https://www.outinperth.com/catch-fire-ministries/
This is the Wikipedia entry for their leader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Nalliah
Sozo
From the website, “Surviving Church.” by Janet Fife.
This describes the practice. It is creepy in my opinion.
Not in the article, but in the comments Janet Fife states:
Getting back to Bethel Sozo, they have been accused of operating conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people. They deny it, but do have 3 separate organisations targeting LGBTQ+ people:
CHANGED is ‘a community of friends who once identified as LGBTQ+’.
Equipped to Love ‘pastors homosexuality’.
Moral Revolution is ‘promoting God’s original design for sexuality. We envision a society that celebrates true femininity and masculinity, lives from virtues and protects the pre-born’.Bethel Redding claims to ‘love’ gay people, but to ‘honour’ those who ‘change’ their orientation. It would be better if they were just upfront about doing conversion therapy, at least it would be clear to people where they were coming from. Redding must be a bad town to be gay in. [Boldface added.]
https://survivingchurch.org/2020/07/30/bethel-sozo-part-1-coming-to-a-church-near-you/
She has a post, “Bethel Sozo Part 2 Being Sozoed.”
That it has been accused of promoting conversion therapy for LGBT people? That its theology is not orthodox?
https://survivingchurch.org/2020/08/07/bethel-sozo-part-2-being-sozoed/
Sozo webpage, “Closing the Four Doors.”
Door #3: Sexual Sin
The door to sexual sin contains adultery, pornography, fornication, lewdness, molestation, rape, and homosexuality. Fantasy also resides behind this door.
https://dawnadesilva.com/closing-the-four-doors/
Moral Revolution
https://www.moralrevolution.com/the-sex-talk
https://www.moralrevolution.com/lgbtq-ssa/
AWMI
Set Free from Homosexuality.
https://www.awmi.net/video/set-free-from-homosexuality/
https://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/citizens_disciples/
So the arrest is good news for us.
The Evangelical trainwreck appears to be ongoing.
