Posted on 02/01/2017 5:29:48 AM PST by Gamecock
A Florida pastor fled from a house naked earlier in January after a man arrived home to find the pastor having sex with the man's wife, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
Citing a police report, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that Pastor O. Jermaine Simmons was being chased by the man with a handgun after the husband caught the cheating wife and pastor in the couple's daughter's bedroom. Simmons escaped the home and hid behind a fence as the husband went looking for the pastor.
The man's wife called the police as the incident took place. Simmons and the woman opted not to press charges.
The man took Simmons' clothes, wallet and car keys. After negotiating with police over the phone, the man agreed to hand over the pastor's belongings. The newspaper also reported that the husband handed over the handgun to the local chapter of the NAACP.
Simmons addressed the incident during a recent sermon, which was posted on You Tube. Simmons is a pastor at Jacob Chapel church in Tallahassee.
“I’m hurting because I’ve hurt you,” Simmons said. “I can’t speak to people on the outside. I am not Tallahassee’s pastor. I am not Florida’s pastor. I am Jacob Chapel’s pastor. It hurts me that you have to defend my actions."
The Tallahassee Democrat reported that Simmons, who is married with a son, plans to stay with the church despite the incident.
I saw in one article she was outed (name, age) along with her husband (name, age, reference that no charges would be filed). So in addition to his broader congregation, there's 4 specific members he has included in this public dirty laundry: the "other" woman, her husband, the pastor's wife, & the pastor's son.
The interesting part is to watch the 8-minute clip of the video where the pastor is "apologizing" to his congregation, which is largely supporting him.
The one good thing in the message to his congregation is he asks them NOT to defend him in public, because "you can't defend sin."
But he's not stepping down; he didn't indicate any break to work on his marriage. It sounds like he thinks he can just move on and continue publicly almost like nothing extracurricular has occurred.
Now it could be whatever insurance said church has, it'd be enough to cover such a suit. On the other hand, this church is independent & isn't part of a larger body. So who knows?
Must belong to the Jimmy Swaggert Church of Contrition................
Clearly, he was popular.
In this case, a very concentrated version of popular.
Thanks.
Odds are this isn’t the first time he’s done this, and the wife is aware of it.
Rank has its privileges, and not just in the military.
It’s the poison of the position. When you start do ing God’s work, satan increases the temptations.
The temptations usually are one or a combination of three:
Pride, Lust and/or Greed
Exactly. Having an oversight structure outside the church is an additional measure of assurance for integrity.
Tax purposes only
If he has any kind of leadership in his "church," he should be forced from the pulpit, but I suspect there are no group of elders who would perform that biblically proscribed solution for this fallen charlatan.
Pastor O.J. Simmons.
Gotta be a joke in there somewhere.
Freaking ROFLMAO!
I don’t even need to look...
caught the cheating wife and pastor in the couple’s daughter’s bedroom.
Why were they in the daughter’s bedroom?
Rodney Dangerfield: “The other day there was a guy jogging naked in my neighborhood. I asked him why, and he said ‘Because you came home early!’”
Say, This crap remind me of a Richard Pryor Movie!
LOLOL!
Post of the day.
The pastor has nice dental arches...good thing he ran off before the husband knocked his teeth out.
That reminds me of when Hillary claimed that Bubba was ministering Monica.
The Tallahassee Democrat reported that Simmons, who is married with a son, plans to stay with the church despite the incident.
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He will continue to fleece the flock.
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