Would you leave the church?
Would you support him?
2006-06-12 04:17:22 · 12 answers · asked by Spencer 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a very difficult question to answer. The preacher is called to obey the Ten Commandments, but so are each of us as Christians. I believe that if he is of a larger denomination, each denomination sets standards that pastors must meet and have committees to ensure those quality standards. In that case, powers much larger than I am would make some of those decisions for me.
As for personally, I think that it depends on how well I know my pastor and how much I look at them as a peer. Is he the pastor that you can relate to as a human or is it sitting on a different level than the rest of the congregation.
I have a female pastor at my church. We are good friends with their entire family. I work closely with her husband in several ministries in the church. I know that neither of them would ever do this kind of thing, so if something happened, I would KNOW that it was simply an act of human error. It would not be pre-meditated or planned and it would tear her heart apart. She would be in her own human hell and would judge herself so harshly that what I thought would not matter.
I would think that the pastor should voluntarily step down and go to counseling and then decide where to go from there. That way the one who casts the first stone is the guilty one.
2006-06-12 04:31:22 · answer #1 · answered by texasgirl5454312 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ooohh, hard one. I have been told (rightly so) that I hold a grudge. I place a higher standard on men of the cloth. I love my preacher (not in a romantic way, of course) and would HATE it if he admitted to an extra-marital affair. I think I would be devastated and he would lose some of my respect. Would I leave the church? Probably.
2006-06-12 04:23:26 · answer #2 · answered by butrcupps 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lot hurry to throw the stones, some are! So, how come while Jesus mentioned : "could people who've by no ability sinned throw the 1st stone" (at Magdalena) , the textual content textile states: all of them went away, commencing WITH THE ELDERS. Faithfulness is lots, a lot, a lot greater beneficial than basically no longer having a marital affair (or 2 or greater). Faithfulness is to proceed to be dependable regardless of the united statesand downs of existence, it is to undergo with one's companion's shortcomings, conduct, idiosyncrasies and greater. without NAGGING! I unquestionably have been gazing virtuous companions without greater-marital affairs insulting one yet another, or actually detrimental one yet another. "there is not any sufficient like to pass around" so went the track. greater-marital affairs take place while the companions in a marriage are actually not guided, are actually not matched properly, are actually not meant for another. It means that the marriage itself don't have taken place. It means that society did no longer truly motivate human beings around the youngsters to talk overtly approximately marriage, approximately posterity, approximately lineage, approximately something that particularly deals with existence in a greater image than purely a marriage and lust. It ability that oldsters each and every so often are basically too happy to work out their offspring OFF, away, instead of particularly following their progression and telling them approximately existence. It ability that they too had no concept of a existence that could desire to objective at being a grasp piece, an artwork artwork. So companions improve far off from their spouse/husband instead of them the two starting to be at the same time. yet there is desire: after a marital affair, many times, companions reunite and are available to a decision back that they are meant for another, on a greater unsleeping way. Or they arrive to a decision that the farce is over and that they pass their way. some very bright person advised me recently: "if one isn't happy with 1's companion, how can one be happy with any physique else?" genuine, each and every so often marital affairs take place because of the fact one companion isn't mushy with oneself. interior the Bible, greater-marital affairs are seen a sin. So is it to covet yet somebody else whether no affair ever happens! i'm going to be ambitious and say that many times a sparkling form of potential is mandatory and healthful to be insufflated in a relation which in any different case isn't doing properly. yet this shows vulnerable prognostic of any actual restoration. Marriage is a actual project.
2016-12-08 08:31:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An extra-marital affair is unequivocally wrong, but no human being is perfect.
2006-06-12 04:20:21 · answer #4 · answered by professionaleccentric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I respect him for admitting it, but as a church they should probably ask him to step down for a period of time so that he can get his issues in order, he needs time to his self, wife and children (if there are any) and probably can't deal with a congregation in that state. He doesn't need to step down forever, but for a period of time.
Pray, pray, pray!
2006-06-12 04:22:14 · answer #5 · answered by trulyblssd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he should be the one to leave the church. Yes, we are all human. Yes, you should be there for him personally. But this brings reproach upon God's church, and he should realize this and tender his resignation.
2006-06-12 04:24:09 · answer #6 · answered by ACDixon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is between the preacher and god. None of my business
2006-06-12 04:21:28 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Support him.
2006-06-12 04:21:58 · answer #8 · answered by Matty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd say sh!t happens.
i'm not his wife so it's really none of my or your business.
as long as he's a good preacher i think that's all that counts.
2006-06-12 04:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by Aleks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take away his Rosary beads.
2006-06-14 12:24:41 · answer #10 · answered by deep.blue62 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋