This is a section of a longer paper. There is a roadmap for the entire paper, and you can download the PDF.
In this first part of the paper, we will focus primarily on how to recognise the SBCMB pattern of behaviours. We will move here from the general to the specific:
- How these behaviours fit into the Bible’s teaching on sin and the gospel
- General indications that a person may be exhibiting SBCMB
- Some broad underlying patterns of SBCMB
- Some specific features of SBCMB
- The effect of SBCMB on others
Throughout Part A, we will focus on recognising the behaviours. Later, in Part B: Responding to SBCMB (and Part C: If you have an accountability or potential endorsement role for a person in Christian leadership who may be exhibiting SBCMB) we will focus on how to respond.

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