Posted on 03/21/2018 10:30:51 AM PDT by Gamecock
Exactly. A minister must be “above reproach.” Once again like clockwork all the sex-sick people on this forum crawl out of the woodwork to justify and defend moral perversion.
Twenty years ago? How long will this madness go on? Is no one safe from anything they’ve ever done?
**Andy Savage, teaching pastor at Highpoint Church and part of the church’s senior leadership team, **
Hmmmmm
>>A minister must be “above reproach.” Once again like clockwork all the sex-sick people on this forum crawl out of the woodwork to justify and defend moral perversion.
Don’t make stuff up. No one did that and you know it. If he drove her somewhere and asked for, but didn’t actually engage in, a sex act, then an apology and resignation from that job should suffice. Before getting back into the ministry, I would recommend serious counseling, and maybe he not get back into it at all. I’m not saying in this case the girl wasn’t a victim at all, but she wasn’t sexually (or really in any way) “abused.”
THAT is what the original article seemed to suggest.
However, if there was an inappropriate act of any kind, then yeah, he needs to stay out of the ministry. If they had pushed this at the time, then yeah, he deserved prosecution.
I don’t think anyone on this thread would disagree with the gist of what I’ve written here.
Oh, and by the way, I counsel and consult with ministers all the time and in no way would defend moral perversion.
Sounds like you read your Bible with an Exacto knife to cut out those pesky moral imperatives.
A quick guess - you subscribe to that antinomian New Covenant Theology error.
My point is that we shouldn't allow the media to hold Christians to a higher standard than anyone else. You, as a Christian, have every right to hold other Christians to a high standard.
Judge not lest ye be judged does not mean that you shouldn't judge others. It means you shouldn't judge others without being willing to submit to the same level of scrutiny. The liberal media types do not insist on any moral standards for anyone except Christians. The media only report the moral failings of Christians when it serves the purpose of making Christians look like hypocritical idiots. I'm not willing to play that game.
So that is the lens you are going to use to look through with what this pastor did?
Talk about turning mountains into molehills.
Just trying to put some perspective behind the words that a certain man said many years ago. Those words being something about he who is free from sin throwing the first stone.
I asked you to examine your soul and really get down to the roots of why you go out of your way to post such an article.
Congratulations on your qualifications. Unfortunately, if you fail to see all the “sex-sick” people on this forum who are quick to “wink wink” excuse and defend sexual immortality, then I suspect you have the same problem, namely, wanting to excuse your own behavior. BTW I also have “qualifications”, i.e. terminal degree (Ph.D)
>>Unfortunately, if you fail to see all the “sex-sick” people on this forum who are quick to “wink wink” excuse and defend sexual immortality, then I suspect you have the same problem, namely, wanting to excuse your own behavior.
Please provide a list of all such people.
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