Prestonwood Baptist minister arrested in sex sting (not Senior Pastor) (Ecuminic)

Dallas News ^ | May 16, 2008 | TANYA EISERER

[PAR35]

26,000 member church, 40 pastors on staff. 53 year old preacher, I understand him to be in the counseling ministry.

[svcw]

It is unfortunate that there people who call themselves men of God who are degenerate sinners - the show up in every group.

[Little Pig]

It would be real interesting to hear what Dr. Graham will say about this in the service on Sunday. No way he can ignore it, between the Catholic scandal focusing attention on ministers and this story being in the DMN.

[org.whodat]

A Plano megachurch minister was taken into custody Thursday after authorities say he drove to Bryan, Texas, to have sex with a person he thought to be a 13-year-old.

There is an easy cure for people like this. A good tree and a six dollar rope.

[Domandred]

Took five posts. Awesome.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

If they just let megachurch ministers marry then none of this would ever happen.

[Religion Moderator]

This is an "ecumenic" thread.

That means the poster must not argue against any other beliefs. He can only argue for what he believes – or ask questions.

[Politicalmom]

I’m sorry, but having news threads follow such rules is silly.

Is anyone going to argue FOR sex abuse?

What kind of questions can possibly be asked?

The sex abuse charge has nothing to do with religion.

[Religion Moderator]

This thread is posted in the Religion Forum.

If you do not wish to see RF posts, do NOT use the "everything" option on the browse. Instead, browse by "News/Activism." When you log back in, the browse will reset to "everything" - so be sure to set it back to "News/Activism."

As far as I know, no Freepers on the Religion Forum have ever argued for sexual abuse.

[Tex Pete]

Ministers are humans like the rest of us, and are prone to the same temptations.

Not defending the guy in any way, just stating that humans are humans. I’m certainly disappointed in the guy.

[PAR35]

I’d give him a fair trial first.

[org.whodat]

Careful, I didn’t see that it was a so called religious thread???? I never post to them are read them.

[aposiopetic]

Several months ago I was on a flight with two or three dozen people from this church who were returning from a mission trip to the Amazonian region. I am sorry to hear of today’s reported incident, because I can’t say enough good about the people I met on the plane: they appeared quite sincere, had evidently worked like crazy, and were full of joy and edifying conversation — you could see they genuinely enjoyed being together and bore annoyances and discomforts with grace. Let’s pray they get through this well and that any malefactor repents pronto.

[Religion Moderator]

See post 10.

[PAR35]

It would be real interesting to hear what Dr. Graham will say about this in the service on Sunday.Looks like Jerry Vines is scheduled to preach this weekend.

[org.whodat]

#14

[svcw]

Yes, I know that was the point I was trying to make, didn’t work well.

[Tex Pete]

Gotcha.