A Clash of Cultures

“I was dating a girl from a cross-town school, and she got pregnant. Her parents were not going to be happy that she was pregnant at 17 years old. I demanded that she get an abortion.”

Suffering from years of guilt, Tyler faced consequences from “one of those deep sins you lock in the basement and say I will knowingly die with this sin.”

Tyler is executive pastor of Veneration Church in Kalispell, Montana. Not until he came to faith in Christ did the pain of his secret sin become unbearable. He knew he had to confess it to Alicia, his wife, the mother of their three children.

The couple agreed...