Thank you for the information you have shared. I used to be very sure about what God did and did not allow after a fall until I went through the Beth Moore series on Breaking Free . Beth Moore shared about her life and being sexually abused as a child. Because of the damage done to her she kept falling into sin in later years when she was a Bible study leader in a church.God helped her get free from the damage(strongholds) that was causing her to fall into sin (and a wonderful Bible study was born from it).
In the scriptures about leaders in Titus, our difference in thinking is mainly the fact that divorce is the one thing you can never get over (therefore never lead again), the other character qualities are things a leader can change. I don’t think our Father is happy to see the pain and problems that have gone on with Todd ,but I believe He understands things we don’t and I trust He will work in Todd’s life to show him whether it is His will to continue.I still honor Todd for those things he has done well for the glory of his Savior.
Beth Moore is an amazing Bible teacher. We’ve done several of her studies. Anyone can be restored if they truly wish it and are willing to go through the deliverance and restoration process with a pastor or person of integrity who knows how to do these things. We have all needed redemption at one time or another, have we not?
God has already shown in His word whether or not it is His will for Todd Bentley to “continue”.
1.) Is he now the husband of more than one wife, and that through adultery on top of it? 2.) Was he given to “much wine,” i.e., too much alcohol, (did he have a drinking problem) per what John Arnott said? 3.) Taking all of these together, is he “blameless”?
If yes on these seperately (and all together as well):
Todd Bentley, according to what the the Apostle Paul wrote in the word of God, would not qualified to be a bishop.
Rick Joyner and Todd Bentley both need to read what Paul the Apostle wrote in the word concerning qualifications to be a bishop.
Todd can be restored spiritually and morally, but not to being a bishop, though, and any who would try to aid in this restoration process cannot be in the position where they need to be restored themselves first - if the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch.