Comment: Pastor Bob Cotton | No confidence in church after Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse

December 19 2017 - 7:00pm
LINGERING DOUBTS: Pastor Bob Cotton says when it comes to church reform, the "mice are still in charge of the cheese". Picture: Jonathan Carroll.
LINGERING DOUBTS: Pastor Bob Cotton says when it comes to church reform, the "mice are still in charge of the cheese". Picture: Jonathan Carroll.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is finally over but for Maitland Pastor Bob Cotton, there is still a long way to go. He has no confidence in the church – it does “not reflect or represent the goodness, purity and virtue of Jesus” – to make the required moral changes.  

Last week, Christopher Laban Bridge, a former Assemblies of God Youth Pastor and former Maitland businessman was sentenced in Gosford District Court to 2 years in prison with a non parole period of 15 months.

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