On November 28 I wrote about all the ramifications when a minister falls because of moral failure. It has happen again. This time it was a minister in a town right next to my town. It is a very sad situation. He will never be able to be licensed again in the Church of God. Much worse he has lost his marriage, his church of loving people and all the years of confidence that others had come to have in him.
It was like a funeral when the letter of resignation with the reason was read to the congregation. They loved him so much that they were willing to try and work something out. However, under the bylaws of the church that was impossible.
The next day was a terrible day when two seperate trailers were backed up to the parsonage one to be loaded for him and the other loaded for his wife and daughter. The heart break with a wide range of emotions was very visible to everyone. The wife and daughter had NOTHING left but their cloths to pack in the trailer. No home to go to. No relatives to accept them; just nothing. I also felt so broken as my wife and another of the ladies from our church went to clean the parsonage for them because the wife was not physically or emotionally able to do it. We tried to show them all the love we could but the brokeness was so hard for them. I did receive an offering in my church for the wife, ($1596.90), to help her until she could some how put her life back into some kind of order.
HOW CAN SOMEONE BE SO SELFISH I keep asking myself? That for their on lust and physical pleasure for a few moments in a life time could be so overpowering and cause the break up of a home, a church and many families. Pray for this family! It hurts to see a fellow minister fall and bring about such distruction.
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Awful situation... so much attention is always placed on the pastor when something like this happens - but it's his family who really suffers. And something like that is so hard to ever get over.
Grace,
Kevin
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