Proactive Protection

So today we did our Plan To Protect training for our leadership @ Lifeline Church. Plan to Protect trains and teaches leaders how to make wise decisions and protect themselves, the church, and those they are leading. The training is very important and much needed, but it always makes me think of how times have changed in my short life. How sad it is that the church needs to take such intentional measures to protect itself and others from predators and various unhealthy situations that may arise. What happened to Love one Another, Peace, Joy, and Trust? Why do so many even in the church now have motives that are so far from what Jesus was all about? Plan to Protect is smart ministry and much needed, I just wish that we lived in a world where it wasn't needed.