News 4 in Jacksonville, FL reports that a divorced woman is claiming that her former church has threatened to “go public with her sins” and tell the congregation about her sexual relationship with her new boyfriend.

Rebecca Hancock says that pressure from the Grace Community Church over her sex life forced her to leave the congregation. However, she claims that she later received a letter from the church’s elders telling her that the church plans to make her sex life public.

“I’m basically run out. I’m the church harlot,” said the 49-year-old ex-church member. “Because I have a boyfriend that I’m involved with– to not be married to that person is a sin.”

The letter that the church sent to Hancock explained that due to her refusal to end the sexual relationship with her boyfriend– “you leave us with no other choice but to carry out the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ” … “In accordance with Matthew 18:17 we intend to ‘tell it to the church.’”

Though Dr. T. Scott Christmas, the pastor Grace Community Church, declined to comment on the story, a number of other pastors told News 4 that speaking of the sins of church members to the rest of the
congregation is not an unusual practice.

Though Hancock feels betrayed by her former church, she says that the situation has not had an effect on her faith and relationship with God. “I am a Christian, and that will never change,” said Hancock. “My relationship with Jesus has to do with me and Jesus, and he knows my heart.”