P and P shared that they were informed by Rabbi Christopher Frederickson that “Clayton Jennings’ has somehow taken down his website.”
In part, this was sent out earlier today, "Jennings hacked the Rabbi’s website and removed the photo evidence. We’re putting it all up at P&P. Please add an editors note to you article with a link to P&P where we’re putting the evidence back up. That link will be up in an hour on our site."
Please be advise and proceed with caution, the photos are quite graphic.
When Don Jennings was ousted from his last church for helping to
cover up the sexual and spiritual predation of his son, his wife and
Clayton’s mother – Lisa – demanded the church give her the rights to a
longstanding passion play directed by herself each year entitled Behold the Lamb.
Being a major theatrical production for a small Indiana town, seeing
the ‘show biz’ continue was important for Lisa, who used it to help
propel her son into the spotlight.
Pulpit & Pen has spoken to members of Jennings’ former church who
refer to Clayton as being a product ‘made’ by his parents. They
recalled for us how Clayton would come out of his dressing room to play
“hot Jesus,” a term Clayton and his friends used to describe him.
Although this was off-putting to many in the congregation, Clayton’s
parents didn’t seem to mind that their son was capitalizing upon
Christ’s death to take the center-stage of fame. More than a few people
told the Jennings family that Clayton seemed to be using his role as
‘Jesus’ for the wrong reasons – or at least in the wrong spirit – but
they were ignored and shrugged off as critical to their child who, in
the Jennings’ words, was ‘destined to be a star.’
Soon, Jennings’ church – under the pastoral leadership of his father –
began to support the man’s playboy lifestyle, which he characterized as
being an ‘evangelist. In recent days, Jennings has made admissions that
his sexual promiscuity persisted during the time when he was receiving a
stipend from the church to travel and speak so that “he could get his
career started.”
Clayton Jennings, playing Christ
The full weight and influence of Jennings’ father and mother were
thrust into the service of making their boy a star. Their lust for his
fame seems to have rivaled even his own.
When I called Don Jennings in 2016 to make a private allegation
regarding Clayton’s sins in accord with the second step of Matthew 18,
he immediately did what we have also seen consistently from Clayton; he
chided us for being too critical and therefore, not worthy of being
heard. The elder Jennings had argued that because we had written an
article of polite theological disagreement with John Piper, we must be
“hyper-critical.” He did not want to hear anything negative about his
son, claiming that it had been “appropriately dealt with already.”
This
father did not seem to grasp that we knew he already knew about
Clayton’s ongoing victimization of women because some had already come
forward to Don to talk about how she had felt sexually used by Clayton
and recounted what can best be described as clerical sexual misconduct.
Don, Clayton’s father, essentially let Clayton apologize and then
encouraged them to “move on.” Along with Clayton, and Don, Clayton’s own
mother, Lisa also knew of the behavior.
Both Don and Lisa had heard their evangelist son, who their church
was financially supporting, admit to engaging in careless and
promiscuous fornication while being a licensed minister of the church.
Both Don and Lisa Jennings responded by sweeping their son’s sin under
the rug.
It was this information that led Don and Clayton’s church to (eventually) remove both of them.
Pulpit & Pen has also talked to women who as a part of the
process of seduction, met Clayton’s parents during the time of his
engagement (or at least courtship) with the woman who is now his wife.
We have every reason to believe that Don and Lisa Jennings knew beyond a doubt that Clayton’s sexual impurity was not a one-time incident but a pattern of unrepentant behavior.
Whatever becomes of Clayton Jennings, it is absolutely fair to say that it should reflect to some extent upon his parents, who while having
the opportunity to at least attempt to stop his spiritual abuse of
women dead in its tracks, have instead done little more than enable him
and cover up his immoral behavior.
Perhaps the best way to understand the depth of the desire that Don
and Lisa Jennings have for their sons’ fame, is the way they continued
to promote his stardom even after knowing he had abused his
position as clergy for lasciviousness and debauchery. Lisa Jennings, who
had sat in the room that fateful day and heard Clayton admit to sexual
impurity, went on afterward to continue having Clayton play the role of Jesus Christ in the Behold the Lamb production.
Jennings portrayed Jesus in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Don and
Lisa Jennings certainly became aware of Clayton’s ongoing sexual
immorality in 2015. Countless sources from Noblesville, Indiana,
indicate that it would have been impossible for them not to have known
about Clayton’s repeated pattern of behavior even far, far sooner.
Everyone else, so it seemed, already knew it. It didn’t matter to Lisa
Jennings…the show must go on. Jennings took to the stage as ‘hot Jesus’ even after she heard her son’s belated and inescapable confession.
These were the feet that played Jesus, nailed to the cross.
A screenshot of Clayton’s feet, as he played the role of Jesus in his mother’s passion play production.
These are the feet of a man with his underwear around his ankles, sending a photograph of his genitals to an underage fan.
A photo released by the girl’s pastor and counselor. More evidence in released elsewhere. This is all we felt comfortable sharing (see editor’s note below).
[Editor’s Note: We were going to show all the photos
released tonight by Pastor Fredrickson. However, we made an editorial
decision not to show the photos here because of their graphic nature in
light of Ephesians 5:12. It is however readily available enough, elsewhere.]
These are the same feet, so says the pastor who released the
information, the testimony of the victim, and finally, the visual and
digital evidence presented to the world tonight in the webcast.
The second photo is the fault of Clayton Jennings and his alone.
The first photo, however, is the fault of all those who knew he was
unqualified to play the part of Jesus (whether on or off the stage), but
who promoted him anyway. Don and Lisa Jennings are regrettably at the
top of this list.
Like Clayton, when Don and Lisa Jennings left their church under a
cloud of scandal, they attacked that poor congregation for doing what
they – in their own pursuit of nepotistic fame and vicarious living –
refused to do; to hold Clayton Jennings accountable for his sins.
Now, Clayton Jennings is facing some very real consequences in every
conceivable way that consequences can come. He has sown the wind, and
will reap the whirlwind. I’m afraid, however, that the younger Jennings
did not sow that wind alone. He had enabling help and assistance along
the way.
To parents who didn’t do their job of teaching and discipline…for
local churches that winked at his behavior in the name of attracting a
crowd…to wannabe tag-along friends like Blake Whitely and the
clingers-on in his new Dockside podcast, on-and-on… to all of his
Instagram and Facebook fans who regarded his persona above righteousness
and more than his victims…shame on you.
Shame on all of you.
Stop. Repent. Learn. Repeat.
[Note: This article was written by JD Hall and originally published at The Pulpit & Pen. Title changed by Ponderings of a Puritan.]
The Clayton Jennings Files website is designed to
protect young women against this evangelist figure and give them a
place to report the activities they have personally experienced by Mr
Jennings.
It is important to understand we stand both with the
victims of Mr Jennings and we also encourage Clayton to seek mental
heath and drug treatment for the betterment of his life and his family.
If Mr Jennings ever does this, this website will come down. The
Matthew 18 approach has been done with Mr Jennings so religious
obligation has been met, with the Matthew 18 process the job is to
restore a brother or sister to the body of Christ. We want this to
happen. The only way this will happen is through him fulfilling the
points below.
Mr Jennings will have to apologize to his victims through a video and social media posts
Unlike previous confessions he cannot blame others for his own actions he has to take full responsibility
Mr Jennings will have to check into a drug rehabilitation center for more than a month to get off his dependency of drugs
Mr
Jennings will have to take the steps to deal with his perversions he
has engaged in before and during his marriage with other women. In
doing so he will have to seek both religious and secular counseling.
Real change will have to be seen over a duration of time so Mr Jennings can be restored to the body of Christ.
It is important to know this website was not
designed for the reason to disparage Mr Jennings, but rather to warn
other impressionable individuals and to draw Mr Jennings to repentance.
Many organizations have counseled his victims and there are more than
"only a few". The testimonies of these women are devastating and it is
sad to see.
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