Agape Freedom Community

By: Rev. Jeric Yurkanin

The American church has spent decades preaching about grown men over 18 watching porn…
while almost never preaching about the real epidemic happening under its own roof:

child molestation
grooming
rape
and decades of cover-ups.

And here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud:

👉 Churches now buy sexual-abuse insurance.

Let that sink in.

Insurance companies — who only care about data and risk — now treat child sexual abuse in churches as something statistically expected.
Not rare.
Not unthinkable.
Expected.

If a church needs sexual-abuse insurance, it means:
• they know abuse happens,
• they know it happens often,
• they know it could bankrupt them,
• and they’re preparing financially before they’re preparing spiritually.

Meanwhile, sermons still scream about:
• porn
• modesty
• “lust”
• purity rings
• LGBTQ+ people
• and everything except the thing that is actually destroying children inside church walls.

The wrong pandemic has been preached for years.

Real experts like Dr. Anna Salter, one of the world’s leading authorities on sexual predators, have been warning us:

👉 “Predators don’t just go where the children are.
They go where the adults are trusting,
the rules are weak,
and the accountability is low.”

That describes the American church perfectly:

• high trust
• low oversight
• instant access to kids
• unquestioned authority
• theology that demands silence and forgiveness
• leaders who fear scandal more than truth
• parents who assume “church = safe”
• victims who are blamed, shamed, or told to “forgive and move on”

And then we’re surprised when predators walk right through the front door?

No.
This is a system problem.
A culture problem.
A leadership problem.
A Gospel problem.

Jesus never protected institutions.
Jesus never silenced victims.
Jesus never let religious leaders get away with hypocrisy.

But churches today?

They’ll spend thousands on sexual-abuse insurance
before they preach one sermon on grooming,
before they teach adults the warning signs,
before they report a predator to the police,
before they protect a child.

Insurance is not “wisdom.”
It is confession.

Confession that the church knows
this is happening,
has been happening,
and will continue to happen
unless something changes.

If the American church wants credibility again,
it needs to stop policing consenting adults
and start confronting the evil happening to children.

Protect the vulnerable.
Expose the darkness.
Quit worshipping reputation.
Quit hiding behind insurance policies.

Do what Jesus actually did —
defend the ones who can’t defend themselves.

— Rev. Jeric Yurkanin
Agape Freedom Church
“Leaving religion. Finding Jesus. Protecting the vulnerable.”