Wife Informs Pastor of Preacher Husband's Television? - Page 4

LadyRev · #31 10-30-2007, 02:33 PM

My husband doesn't have a TV.....

He has 3 of them!

Anyone that would like to confront him about it, feel free. I'll just watch the confrontation from the sidelines.

Elizabeth · #32 10-30-2007, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

Sounds like she was wanting some change in her life.

This is what I think, if she was a happy camper, she wouldn't have said anything.

#33 10-30-2007, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MrsMcD

If I were the wife and the pastor asked me a question, I would send him to my husband for the answer.

DING DING DING!!!!!: YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!!!
YOU WIN THE PRIZE WITH THIS ANSWER!!!
IN MY OPINION THERE IS NO OTHER ACCEPTABLE ANSWER.
I do not answer for my husband and he doesn't answer for me.

#34 10-30-2007, 04:14 PM

There was another system years ago where family was encouraged to turn their own family members in for violating silly rules put in place by fools.

Neck · #35 10-30-2007, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by shamgar1

A pastor has a prohibition against tv in his church.

Knowing this, a lay minister's wife turned him in to that pastor for having a television.

Did she have a moral obligation to do so?

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He should take her "People Magazine" down the pastor and drop the Paris Hilton Memoirs on his desk.

#36 10-30-2007, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by shamgar1

I don't know all of the circumstances, but the wife informed the pastor, and then he confronted her husband. The husband was given an ultimatum, so he left.

If she actually informed and did not just answer the Pastor's question then there is no doubt in my mind she had displaced loyalty issues. While I completely believe in honoring your pastor, her first obligation was to the vows she made before God to her husband. I just don't believe it was hers to tell. If she disagreed, she should have prayed that God would speak to her husband if He was displeased with his behavior. God could do the job without causing problems in their relationship. For what it's worth....

#37 10-30-2007, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeanie

This is what I think, if she was a happy camper, she wouldn't have said anything.

You 2 are prolly right about this but....seems underhanded to me. She, no doubt received kudos for turning him in and all sorts of condolences for his leaving. I dare to say there are larger issues in play. Almost always is.

CC1 · #38 10-30-2007, 06:14 PM

Adolf Hitler would be proud. This was the concept he had with the "Hitler Youth Movement".

Also when the Soviet Union was Communist they solicited children and other family members to report on any unapproved activities of their relatives.

I read several good suggestions on here of how the situation could have been handled;

1. First if the wife was asked the question by the pastor she should have referred him to talk directly with her husband.

2. If the wife just volunteered the info then I think she was flat out wrong unless the husband had lied to the pastor about the situation. She should have worked this out with her husband.