![]() ![]() GRACE's website linked to testimony by Steele posted on. Tchividjian's brother and GRACE's executive director, Boz Tchividjian, did not respond to two emails and a phone message from The Post seeking comment. In December 2016, the board of directors at GRACE, which stands for Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, issued a statement saying they were "deeply disturbed about the revelations of sexual misconduct by Tullian Tchividjian." Matthew Dubocq, of the South Florida Presbytery, also declined to comment. "You trust a man like that a lot more."Ĭoral Ridge's executive director Andrew Nichols declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding Tchividjian's resignation. He definitely had a place of authority in my life," Steele said. ![]() She considered it counseling, while Tchividjian said he had no such role in her life. And that spring, Tchividjian was offering her and her then-husband marriage advice. Months earlier, Tchividjian baptized her children, Steele said. Steele said she wanted to have sex with him, but added that there was an element of surrendering "to what he wanted." She doesn't consider it consensual, because she said Tchividjian groomed her and abused his position of power over her. Rachel Steele, then a member of Coral Ridge, said her affair with Tchividjian, the one that prompted his resignation, lasted between roughly May and June 2015. That happened while Tchividjian was on a leave of absence from Coral Ridge and after he separated from his wife, he said. ![]() He says now that he took part in two affairs, one of which was with a congregant of the influential church. It's the culmination of a path, Tchividjian said, that largely began in 2015 when his marriage cratered and he resigned as senior pastor at Coral Ridge, a position he described as a dream job, over his infidelity. Now the new Jupiter resident is among those starting The Sanctuary, an unaffiliated church that's meeting each Sunday at the Hilton Garden Inn Palm Beach Gardens ahead of a planned formal launch next month. Tchividjian, who said there was no element of sex abuse or emotional manipulation, was also defrocked by the South Florida Presbytery. ![]()
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