1. Keeping a confidence keeps the door open to continuing ministry.2. Keeping a confidence may protect a minister from huge and terrifying consequences.3. Keeping a confidence enables a minister to focus on ministry, not to be sidetracked.4. The whole world lies in wickedness (1 John 5:19), so exposing a confidence is unlikely to be of much value, in fact may be counterproductive.5. Keeping a confidence may express the faith that God will work a solution.
OBSERVATION: But these are not hard and fast rules, and I have reported things to the police, or to the Church, which were revealed in counselling. Very seldom, though, and with anguish.
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