Prominent Memphis Area Pastor Resigns

[Monterrey]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

Do you have a link? What is Lake Woe be gone?

lake Woe Be Gone is just an expression.

There is no link, this is coming from ministerial friends close to the situation.

I am not rejoicing, this is sad. Both for the man's family and for the Church.

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Monterrey

lake Woe Be Gone is just an expression.

There is no link, this is coming from ministerial friends close to the situation.

I am not rejoicing, this is sad. Both for the man's family and for the Church.

Very sad. I pray he gets his relationship right with God and his family.

[Praxeas]

Why this kind of stuff upsets people is these men were seemingly living double lives...or rather they were living a lie...and for years

[houston]

Originally Posted by LooneyLucy

I disagree. If you go to church and have a weakness you continually fall in, are you then a hypocrite??? or living a lie???? NO, you are still striving. If we step out of the fight, we lose. I am a true believer that people don't need to STOP going to church just because they have a weakness, but need to keep going because they never know when that right moment will come and they will get victory.

No. A bishop is supposed to be above reproach, not one who is struggling with sin.

[LooneyLucy]

Originally Posted by houston

No. A bishop is supposed to be above reproach, not one who is struggling with sin.

There isn't a PERFECT person on this planet. The ONE who was, was nailed to a tree.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by houston

No. A bishop is supposed to be above reproach, not one who is struggling with sin.

why would he be held to a higher standard than anyone else in the church. He is as human, flawed, and frail as anyone else. If he committed adultery on Saturday night and repented afterward when he stepped into the pulpit a few hours later on Sunday morning he had been forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Sam

why would he be held to a higher standard than anyone else in the church. He is as human, flawed, and frail as anyone else. If he committed adultery on Saturday night and repented afterward when he stepped into the pulpit a few hours later on Sunday morning he had been forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.

The key here is asking forgiveness.

[tv1a]

Wrong. The key is repenting.

Originally Posted by rgcraig

The key here is asking forgiveness.

[ttpaba]

@ SAM,,, This is why he should be held to a higher standard. Forgiven? Definitely! But on a pew under a wise elder to restore him back from whatever condition he is in, to have fallen into the snare of the devil. A bishop?, deacon?!!! Not until the repented soul is in the condition it should be in to lead a congregation again.
I Tim 3
1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

10 And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

[LooneyLucy]

Originally Posted by Sam

why would he be held to a higher standard than anyone else in the church. He is as human, flawed, and frail as anyone else. If he committed adultery on Saturday night and repented afterward when he stepped into the pulpit a few hours later on Sunday morning he had been forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness.

Wow Sam! what an awesome post!