Posted on 06/28/2024 12:16:06 PM PDT by Morgana
Last week, police arrested Jonathan Edward Elwing, senior pastor of Palm View Baptist Church, for possessing child pornography, but new information paints a far more disturbing picture.
Previously law enforcement received a tip that the pedophile pastor used cryptocurrency to buy child porn online. They acquired a warrant and executed it the very next day, seizing his devices and finding four images of child porn on his cell phone.
Things have changed. After seizing multiple electronic devices, including phones, tablets, and computers, a preliminary search has revealed even more images, including ones that shows him sexually abusing a child.
Elwing has now been charged with 14 felony counts related to sexual assault and child pornography, including two counts of capital sexual battery, six counts of production of child porn, and six counts of possessing child porn.
Prior to being arrested, Elwing, 43, resigned from Palm View church. A quick perusal of his social media accounts shows that his church was enrolled in Founders Ministries church search*, and Elwing would frequently share quotes from Voddie Baucham, Jonathan Edwards, Matt Chandler, and Mark Driscoll.
Elwing is married with four children, including one he recently adopted, and it appears he has absolutely destroyed their lives and turned them upside down. It is also unclear if one of the victims is his own child.
*Note: Founders Ministries explicitly says that it does not vet churches who voluntarily list themselves on the Founders church search.
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The law STRENGTHENS sin. 1 Corinthians 15:56.
I bet he’s a transgender too. Or at the least a
Drag queen. That’s typically who is doing this stuff.
Where was this? Couldn’t find a city or state anywhere in the article.
Just what the Church needs..ANOTHER black stain on its reputation.
Sickening.
Pedo Pastor abusing children. Living a lie as a trusting human. Beyond EVIL individual.
I’d go so far as to say the ministry has a problem.
Not all pastors everywhere of course, but this is happening too often.
Anyone who would leverage their church position to molest a child should be destined for the hottest level of hell.
See a trend here?
Florida man. Should have known.
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A pastor from Palmetto was accused of buying child pornography online, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Jonathan Edward Elwing, 43, was the senior pastor at Palm View Baptist Church in Palmetto.
The sheriff’s office searched Elwing’s home and the church on Friday. Deputies said they found four “sexually explicit photos of children” on his cellphone and he used cryptocurrency to purchase the material online.
The problem is the tradition church keeps espousing what Paul called, “Another Gospel” (Gal. 1:6) - the Old Covenant of the Law which was done away (Heb. 8:13).
Hence the traditional church continues to teach a false doctrine destroying many with the demands of the law which STRENGTHENS sin (1 Corinthians 15:56). But which those in Christ are not under the law.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” Rom. 6:14
Those in Christ are NOT under the law which strengthens sin but under grace which defeats sin. There’s only two things that defeats sin: grace and death.
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Good analysis. Are you a pastor?
I don’t think the passage suggests that we should drown anybody.
It’s been a week, has there been any research on if it’s true, or has he admitted? On the one hand I don’t want us Christians to jump on our own every time the world accuses us of something. But on the other hand, if true I want him kicked out of church leadership and put behind bars.
But it doesn’t say we shouldn’t.
I think the point is that we may suffer far more for leading others into sin than for our personal sins.
Thank God he’s been outed!
Thank you.
I’m not a pastor. Actually right now I’m a lawyer but I believe God has called me to preach the Word, more like a prophetic ministry.
I may end up a bit like Daniel who both served in the Court and who God used also in preaching the Word prophetically.
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