Of course there are pictures!
Posted on 03/16/2014 10:03:14 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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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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(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
It’s all in the timing.
Maybe he got the “Two-Minute Warning”......
“And if I’m wrong, may God Strike me down dead.”
And I thought I was a procrastinator.
Of course there are pictures!
Yes. It is true — “For even while we were enemies of Christ, he died to save us.” (Romans)
And... John 3:17 “That through Him the world would be saved and not condemned.”
Paraphrasing both, but you have the right idea. God love ALL of us. But He does not like sin.
Is that before or after?
He sinned against his wife not them. Why do this to her? Really the best thing was for him to announce that he was stepping down and let someone else take over the church while he worked on his marriage. He need not tell anyone why. Trust me I was a protestant, once. Nothing can make a church uneasy than to know the preacher man had an affair. Even worse than to deal with the preacher's wife after all that. Talk about walking on eggshells. That is drama I seriously don't need and makes me so glad I no longer have to deal with it.
Verga please explain how metmom is wrong on all counts. Or is this another of your IFs? Tell us how you are so right.
See post 48, anything else I say will not change your heart or hers.
Hmmm, that sounds like mind reading and making it personal to me.......
I am already over it. Matter of fact I was over it before you whined.
It was weak for him to go before the congregation with his personal failing. He should have just resigned if he was that upset over it.
If I was sitting in a pew I would have told him to shut up and then walked out. I don’t want to hear this kind of stuff, especially from a preacher.
What does he think that everyone should be shocked because he is a human?
The caveat is that I don’t know enough of what happened or his intentions so you can take my comment as general.
But I do disagree with you on what is weak and what is strong in this situation. With due respect to your position, my view is the weak move was to go before the congregation with it.
Like with Teddy Kennedy? Now there's a deathbed confession for you. He may have confessed to God and a priest (which is very very good) but did TK have the intestinal fortitude to apologize or ask forgiveness to the family of Mary Jo Kopechne? That would be akin to this bishop confessing to his congregation, friends and family. The bishop did so publicly as we have a record of it. Did TK publicly confess? I don't know if he did.
And if he didn’t confess publicly, I could see him catching flack for trying to hide his sin. A lot of public figures are criticized for not admitting they’re human also, for putting themselves up on a pedestal.
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
Did House actually mean oxygen or the inability to breathe it:)
He wronged God by sinning. We assume he went to the cross in repentance. To "get right" with God.
He wronged his wife, family and congregation and we see he confessed his sin. He "got right" with fellow man.
Amen!
We are responsible for the earthly consequences we create. God is longsuffering, merciful and kind. He will forgive us our tresspasses if we confess our sins. The earthly consequences of those sins live with us as you mentioned. A strained marriage or relationship with children or friends; a child from out of wedlock or adultery...take your pick.
Very wise words Mr. Verga.
Most deaths are due to no more breathing....
LOL
Maybe....Of course!
I can see your point. Perhaps he could have confessed to the elders to spare his wife's shame (as a gentlemen would do for a lady). However, as a bishop his sin was against the whole congregation IMO.
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