A Few Questions About Your Church's Criminal Background Check Provider
Read the whole thing, please, or you may wind up being confused. FBC Farmersville uses criminal background checks and encourages your church to do so, too.
- Does your church order a criminal background check on people hired to work on the church staff?
- Does your church order a criminal background check on people who volunteer to work with minors?
- Does your church ever pay for those criminal background checks?
- Does the company who sells criminal background checks to you obtain from the government the information they give to you?
- Did you know that some portion of your church's money goes to the government for every criminal background check that you run?
- Are the criminal investigations that result in arrests and convictions—entries on those criminal background checks—conducted by the government?
- What is your state government's official position on LGBTQ issues?
- Does your state government license same-sex marriages?
- Does your state government prosecute people who discriminate against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, etc.?
- Does your state permit LGBTQ people to serve on juries?
- Do you believe that your state government's support of the LGBTQ movement renders useless or unreliable their investigatory information that appears on the criminal background checks that your church uses?
- Do you believe that your state government's support of the LGBTQ movement makes it sinful for money from your church to go to your state government to pay fees related to obtaining a criminal background check for your church?
- Does the "sword" of Romans 13 empower the government to tell your church who you can hire as a pastor or use as a volunteer in student ministry or children's ministry?
- If you do not believe the "sword" given by God to the government gives them any authority at all to direct your church's hiring or recruitment practices, do you still use the information from a governmental criminal background check to aid your church in making your own decisions about hiring church staff or using volunteers?
- When reviewing criminal background checks run on potential church employees or volunteers, do you only consider convictions related to sexual abuse, or would you also take into consideration convictions for murder, embezzlement, burglary, DUI etc. (maybe for hiring someone to work with finances or recruiting someone to drive a church van or to serve on a safety team, for example)?
- Do you believe that the government has ever wrongfully convicted anyone for murder, embezzlement, burglary, DUI, etc?
- Do you nonetheless, even if you think governmental investigations and verdicts are not perfect, use the information from governmental criminal background checks to aid your church in making your own decisions about hiring staff or using volunteers?
- Are there any individuals elected to or employed by your state government who say that they are LGBTQ?
- Are there any individuals elected to or employed by your state government who give money to LGBTQ causes or who pledge their support to the LGBTQ movement?
- If yes to either of the preceding questions, do you nonetheless plan to continue using criminal background checks obtained from the government when your church hires staff or recruits volunteers?
- What is your personal opinion about using investigatory material from the state government to make decisions about hiring staff or recruiting volunteers for your church?
- What is your personal opinion about using investigatory material from Guidepost Solutions to make decisions about hiring staff or recruiting volunteers for your church?
- If the two are different, why are they different (especially considering questions 1-20)?
