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Originally Posted by Jay
I have heard of some very conservative ministers who found another preacher or a preacher's wife to be in adultery, who quietly went to the man, reproved him, and enabled him to be restored, and might use him as a nameless example. They also kept an eye on him to catch him before he fell again, and could say that the man went on to do a good work. It is only if the sin must be confronted openly that the minister actually forfeits his position. This might actually have been the case with David. Nathan could have confronted him before all the children of Israel, but the confrontation was done in private where David could repent. Had Nathan taken him before the people, then there David would have gone beyond the place of repentance.
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This is what happened to my former pastor. The district superintendent and presbyter confronted him, but apparently the outcome was not as David's outcome. Apparently the problem was too deep and complicated for reconciliation/restoration.
Which still makes me wonder what that process is? I mean most churches have written procedures for everything else, why not for a restoration process?
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