I am a New Life member. A couple of things:
1. Pastor Ted's temporarily stepping down is the procedure for any Pastor accussed of a serious moral breach. It does not imply guilt.
2. An outside body will investigate the truthfulness of these allegations.
3. Very curious timing again, very late October surprise.
4. Satan is alive and well and wants to win. He will smear, lie, attack and destroy what he can. Why would he not attack an effective man of God.
5. The truth will come out.
Well Ted is making all the wrong political moves. New Life has less than 5 days to get this cleared up. Ted should either fight or fess up. There should not be a need for "outside body" to investigate.
While I am not saying this is a diversions, just minutes ago some of us were discussing what "surprise" the Dem could spring to divert from Kerry.
Good luck to you. I attended years ago before the 14K mark. I enjoyed Ted greatly. I find the accusations suspicious.
I remember he preached about going to gay bars and walking around them praying for those inside. It does sound strange if you do not understand spiritual warfare. Again God's speed.
I hope so. I agree the timing is suspect.
Can we all agree the Left is attacking the Evangelicals.
Time to Blow the Trumpet in Zion.
The use of the timing issue is simply to deflect from the potential facts of the matter.
Let the facts surface as quickly as possible. But #3 is nothing more than whining.
Good post. I am disturbed by the number of Freepers who believe the worst about this guy based on the word of a male prostitute, some voice mail that may not be from Haggard, and the specter of other evidence the prostitute will not share. There's not enough evidence here to conclude
anything except that the timing is politically motivated.
It may well be that your pastor did this, but for now I don't think this is any more credible than the allegations against Gibbons in Nevada.