Pastor dies after confessing infidelity to congregation

UPI ^ | March. 14, 2014 | Evan Bleier

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After telling the congregation at the Miracle Faith World Outreach Church that he had been unfaithful to his wife, Bishop Bobby Davis died.

"After the service on Sunday the bishop's family asked us to remain in the church and the bishop confessed to us something that happened long ago," church elder Judy Stovall told the Connecticut Post. "He wanted to come clean with all of us. He wanted to ask our forgiveness."

Before he died, church members were screaming at Davis to show him their support.

"We were shouting, 'We forgive you, we love you,' but the stress of all of it -- he had a heart attack," Stovall said.

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Cut it just a little fine there, rev.

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"Missed him by *this* much!"

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[Darksheare]

*bonk sound effect*
????

The timing...is unusual.
Heart attack?
Or something more sinister at work?
(Rolling pin?)

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According to the story, the heart attack got him before his wife could.

[nickcarraway]

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven;

[fieldmarshaldj]

Heck of a confession. RIP.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Idiot. What would cause him to do a stupid thing like that? It is incidents like this that make the Catholic confessional booth seem like a far better idea.

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Hamming it up, are we?

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Hard to do an encore for that act, you betcha.

[GeronL]

Public confession is better IMO

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> Idiot. What would cause him to do a stupid thing like that?

Repentance?

[GeronL]

Show their support? They love sin that much?

[Ezekiel]

According to the story, the heart attack got him before his wife could.

And to think some people don't believe in Divine Providence.

[RichInOC]

Oh, I hope so.

But a fatal heart attack is a bit much for public penance, no?

[RichInOC]

When Mama ain’t happy...ain’t nobody happy.

[ansel12]

Rueters did a headline that had the Pastor dying because the congregation was yelling at him for infidelity after he confessed.

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[nickcarraway]

I have no idea what this man’s intentions are, hopefully they were good. But the person he mainly wronged was his wife. And his last act was to humiliate her in public. On some level, he was salving his own conscience at the expense of his wife.

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If you’re going to go for it, go for broke.

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Why let the facts get in the way of a good story?