Posted on 03/30/2024 11:48:51 AM PDT by Morgana
Two Australian Pentecostal megachurch pastors have temporarily lost their ministry credentials following allegations that the pair engaged in an adulterous relationship.
Corey Turner, the global senior pastor of Neuma Church, confessed to having an affair with Stacey Hilliar, a female pastor within the megachurch, which has branches in Thailand and the United States.
The Framework, a site that analyzes the inner workings of churches and various groups, shared on social media a copy of an email that Australian Christian Churches President Wayne Alcorn sent to other pastors within the network.
According to ACC’s website, the network represents over 1,100 Australia-based churches and more than 385,000 believers.
In the email, Alcorn announced that Turner and Hilliar had lost their ministry credentials for a minimum of two years following an investigation and a personal confession from both parties.
“The next season for them is all about embracing God’s grace as it is outworked in their lives and families,” Alcorn stated in the email. “We encourage you to pray for all concerned at this time.”
According to the ACC president, current and former executive members followed “due process” when investigating the matter and “prayerfully considered” their response to the allegations. Alcorn suggested that anyone who accuses the members of anything less is attempting to undermine the “credibility of good people serving the Lord.”
The Framework was critical of Alcorn's email, taking issue with the statement not being made public and for not permanently barring Turner and Hilliar from leadership.
"Alcorn is committing the same sins of his past regarding transparency in ACC leadership," the group stated. "And for two years? You do not know the scriptures. They are disqualified and need to get on with their lives."
Last month, Turner confirmed in a now-deleted Facebook post that he had resigned from Neuma Church due to a “morally inappropriate relationship.” The megachurch pastor stated that resigning was a way to take "personal responsibility" for his failures and "prioritize the restoration of our family."
"Out of sincere respect to those who have known me, trusted me and been connected in some way to my ministry as a Christian leader over the past 25 years, it's important that I publicly confess that the recent allegations toward me of my engagement in a morally inappropriate relationship is regrettably true," Turner wrote.
The senior pastor admitted that, toward the end of 2023, he did not guard his heart, seek counsel from spiritual fathers, or attempt to rest as he began to experience what he described as a “fatigue” on his soul.
"In a fog of deception that clouded my emotions and judgement I sinned and compromised my relationship with God, my marriage covenant, my character, and my calling to ministry,” Turner wrote. “I have sinned against God, my family and the church and I am deeply sorry and repentant for my part in this and ask God and you for forgiveness."
Neuma Church’s board secretary, Jacomi Du Preez, requested in a Feb. 4 statement that people pray for Turner and his wife, announcing that the two had resigned from the church due to unfortunate circumstances."
"It has become apparent that their health and wellbeing is such that they are no longer able to function in these roles," Du Preez said. "We ask the church to pray for them and their families as they explore the next season of their life and ministry, and we thank them for their service to Neuma."
Given the nature of the act, it’s possible someone is a neuma.
A percentage of Catholic priests diddle the altar boys: it’s the price you pay for requiring strict celibacy, when some people are not going to have the will to stick to it, and others are going to infiltrate in order to sabotage it.
By the same token, a percentage of contemporary-culture made-up-denominationalists can’t keep their underwear on: it’s the price you pay for emphasizing feeling over doctrine, and having leaders who are self-chosen rather than apostolically vetted.
The good news about both miscreant sets is that God promises to clean up the church first, and then the world. The more the church gets cleaned up this way, the closer we are to the world getting judged and cleansed.
And I thank God that no one will ever feel it necessary to media-blast my sins to the whole world, because I am not in a position as responsible as a Catholic priest or a megachurch pastor.
Saddam throw up in the back of your mouth squishy apology.
You wrote:”A percentage of Catholic priests diddle the altar boys: it’s the price you pay for requiring strict celibacy, when some people are not going to have the will to stick to it, and others are going to infiltrate in order to sabotage it.”
No. No.No.No.No. Not the price of celebacy, this is the price you pay for letting homosexuals into the seminaries, and elevating them to bishop. They suck the seminarians into their perversion and control them. They then embrace all forms of heresy. pope francis loves all this and elevates the perverts to bishop and cardinal. He had removed all the checks his predecessors put in to prevent it and provides cover for the homo pedos. These priests are not molesting little girls or adolescent girls, they all go for boys.
“In a fog of deception that clouded my emotions and judgement I sinned and compromised my relationship with God, my marriage covenant, my character, and my calling to ministry,” Turner wrote. “I have sinned against God, my family and the church and I am deeply sorry and repentant for my part in this and ask God and you for forgiveness.”
Gen 3:12 The man replied, “It was the woman You gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
We’ve heard it before..............................
so has God. He has said all the right things but in my mind has negated the right things with the qualification.
and we have all qualified our sin.
There is forgiveness but sin has consequences. sometimes others pay for your sin or you pay for others sin.
Why are there female pastors? That itself is wrong.
I cannot think of any “pastor” of any “mega church” having what ought to be a real pastoral relationship with the members. “Preach”, yes, and shake hands at the door as the worshiper leave, yes, but know everyone and administer pastoral care to everyone one - no, not possible. To me every mega church (and I’ve attended a couple) are just too “production” centered and too impersonal.
Both smile quite superficially....just my take...2 cents worth...IMHO....I could be wrong.
Regards,
Well yes, to put it bluntly.
The whole world has learned to show a toothy, say cheese smile like Americans. Completely unknown a generation ago. No one but Americans had this toothy grin in photos until the 1990s. Check out foreign photos from before that.
"They suck the seminarians into their perversion and control them."
Such a comment comes from complete ignorance. You don’t diddle boys because YOU have a hard time being celibate, YOU diddle boys because you are a pedo and a liar in your vocation. Or do all extra-marital affairs involve diddling boys my men who have not been having relations with their wives.
Read a book, get some facts. You do damage to priests by talking so stupidly, hence my intolerance toward you.
A fellow sinner.
So.... they are punishing a Minister who fell in love with (omg) a WOMAN he was close to in the church.
If it had been a male minister and another man, would the church have hosted the wedding and provided the catering for free ?
You speak like the accuser.
PIST SOMERGING ABOUT THE GOID WORK THE LORD IS DOING!
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