I imagine I will more about this in a few days, and I have held back to swallow anger at some of the statements which have come out from or about RZIM lately. Sincee people are talking about it now let me say two things, which I hope will be useful correctives

(tl;dr: 1. RZIM have known for years and are still being deceptive
2. The instinct to ‘save a ministry’ is a dangerous one)

1. We’ve all known that Ravi was unfit for ministry for years. Those who said so or who expressed an unwillingness to work alongside RZIM were called troublemakers or worse. RZIM did NOT only find out in 2020, as they are working hard to make people believe.

Any suggestion that they did not know that he was a manipulative and abusive liar several years ago is, I’m afraid, patently untrue.
RZIM certainly has innocent employees, but the organisation consciously partnered in abuse with constant lies & cover up & bullying.

The fact that Ravi had exchanged sexual messages with a married woman and then threatened suicide if she told her husband (he characterised ‘telling her husband’ as a ‘betrayal’) was publicly available information back in 2017.

Because they discredited his victim and obtained an NDA (which they broke, but held over her) RZIM were able to persuade hundreds of evangelical leaders to look the other way on the obvious disqualifying elements which were never contested.

(L.A.T. , if you’re reading this, I’m describing you as ‘her’, for no reason other than that I know your Twitter feed is a waking nightmare for you right now, and I’m unsure about naming you while expressing my own opinions. Keep your head up, dear sister).

2. To those who are calling for RZIM to change their name in order to save the ministry.

I think you mean well, but you must stop. It was a desire to ‘save a ministry’ that led dozens & dozens of people to cover up, and literally hundreds if not thousands to turn a blind eye…

…to very clear evidence. Stop trying to save the ministry. God doesn’t need us to save successful ministries. God has called us to live lives of honesty, in pursuit of Truth, justice and goodness. RZIM simply MUST disband.

I imagine many of their employees will end up working together in similar other ministries. Good. God bless such ministries of those true shepherds.
But I won’t ever work alongside RZIM, with or without a name change.

Unless we’re willing to call out lies (which RZIM has been soaked in for years) in ALL constituencies of ministry, not just ‘our tribes’, this will never stop.

Unless we’re willing to let some ministries die, some organisations fail & some idols fall, this will never stop.

But it must stop.