Posted on 05/02/2014 6:08:20 PM PDT by Gamecock
The Rev. Mark Crow, founder of the multisite Victory Church in Oklahoma, resigned Tuesday “after confessing to marital unfaithfulness,” said Executive Pastor Dale Swanson in a statement.
“The Victory Church family and staff are praying for Mark, that the same grace we all experience and draw comfort from in our own spiritual journey, will be ever present in Mark’s transition to healing and wholeness,” Swanson continued.
Crow, a televangelist who is well-known because of his connection to Oral Roberts University, founded Victory Church with his wife, Jennifer, in 1994.
“Mark will be focusing his full attention on his personal relationship with God, and beginning the process of bringing healing to the fractured relationships in his life and family. Victory Church is fully committed to providing the counselors and ministers who will guide him through the process of reconciliation with God, and ensuring the best possible outcome for this next season in his life,” Swanson added.
The multisite church draws more than 8,000 people each weekend.
Sometimes a less than perfect marriage is better than no marriage.
If the church would just let these guys get married......what? Oh- not Catholic? Uh, never mind!
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So you think adultery between adults of the opposite sex is analagous to priests RAPING LITTLE BOYS under their control AND BISHOPS, CARDINALS, AND POPES covering it up?????!!!!!!!!!
“Sometimes a less than perfect marriage is better than no marriage.”
Husband leaving the toilet seat open or wife over shooping is a less than perfect marriage.
Husband philandering or wife sleeping around is not a marriage at all. It is a fraud.
I give him credit for resigning. Now let’s see if he goes through repentance and a process of restoration...
I have just never grasped how any affair can feel so good that a man would blow up his family, destroy his career, and distress thousands of people for it.
That's a very smart observation. Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm just gonna go with what you said.
Not a little on the judgemental side are you?
I assume that is in Tulsa, the church I found was in OKC. The Tulsa may be a branch of the OKC church but I don’t know.
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I am sure he had to resign and was caught.
The devil has his ways of making evil acts attractive.
So, for a very large number of people in this country the mega-church leaders are the benchmark of Christian behavior and morality for them. When they go bad, a lot of people start to lose what little faith in Christianity they have and go from very little exposure to anything like Christianity to no exposure to Christianity.
God really does work in mysterious ways, though. I've known several people who started their Christian journey in a mega-church and didn't think the way things were explained fit together very well. So, they began to study on their own and eventually saw the same thing, the mega-church is a money making entertainment enterprise and little else.
If there had never been the attraction to comfy theater seating, "Christian Rock" as it's called, and coffee served during the show, they say they'd have gone some other route. Eastern religion, no religion, different things.
At any rate, I totally agree. In fact, one of my favorite YouTube goodies makes that very point.
What is that in Proverbs, “It is better to live in the corner of the attic alone than in a mansion with a nagging spouse”
Only 3rd marriages have divorce rates that high.
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