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On this we agree. It is a pox on this church and community that this person should be allowed in a pulpit.

 

This "New Black Panther Party" should point fingers. Yes, an admitted sex offender will raise eye-brows and I wonder if I would attend church under such circumstances.

I can also see where an addiction such as this guy has is probably more profound as one helplessly addicted to drugs. What a terrible burden to carry around.

On the other hand, if we have a country wide listing of sex offenders why don't we have a similar listing of those convicted of other crimes?

 

But he grew the congregation from 5 to 120 in just weeks. God must be with him. Seriously, though, reject the little children so you can listen to a repetitive sexual offender impersonate a minister? I don't think so.

 

Surprise, surprise. A REPEAT sex offender not only allowed in church, but allowed in the pulpit.

I predict some responses from BB posters:
Some, like myself and the OP, will be disgusted.
Some will protest that it would never happen in their particular church.
Some believe his sins are under the blood so he's free to dupe more believers.
And some may even post links to bad "studies" that show sex offenders don't repeat their behavior.

And I wonder, in the meantime, how many more victims he has silently hiding in the shadows, too young or too scared to come forward because the jerk is still being allowed a place of honor and authority in the church.

Disgusting.

 

gb,
I cannot begin to imagine! Yes, our God is a god of second chances but this pervert appears to have had a number of second chances but there also comes a time for Romans 16:17,18 and several other like passages to be exicuted. We must get over the world and their perverted interpretation of Matt. 7:1-14 and learn to judge righteously.

This man should not only be banned from the pulpit but should also be relegated into the Men´s Class as a student and always be accompanied by trust worthy Christian men or else... kick him out of the church. He´s a pervert that needs help and he is not called of God to teach or to preach.

 

God can restore anyone.

But after such a long time of immorality, I would question even his salvation,

Even much more his ability to preach.

John

 

Did they hear the gospel when they got there?

 

Which brings us back to the question of a previous thread.

Why do we judge the ones that got caught harsher than the ones that committed the same crime, but never got caught?

What is worse? The sin itself, or getting caught?

John

 

He should not be in the pulpit. Not yet anyway. He should have to start from scratch proving his character over a period of many years before taking the pulpit. And the accommodation of not allowing children in the sanctuary is just weird and ungodly.

Having said all of that it seems this is also one more attempt to attaching something negative to the convention.

 

That a church would turn away children to accommodate a convicted sex offender taking to the pulpit speaks to the character of its members.

 

The man can preach (I heard him several times as a kid, including his later falsified sob story of childhood), but that doesn't mean anything. The best heretics can mesmerize the crowds and pull every emotion out of them. So what?

 

I'm all for those who fall into sin being restored to fellowship. Perhaps we deny an essential aspect of the Gospel when we hold others' sins against them without the recourse of correction through forgiveness.

However, I am completely convinced that any person in a position of spiritual leadership/authority who commits sexual sin against or with anyone has lost the ability to ever again assume a senior leadership position in any church.

This is not to say they cannot attend, participate in, become a member...but a pox on the house that allows them to preach from a position of authority and leadership without the due process of lengthy and humble separation that leads to restoration.

As a pastor at a church and having come from a family where a relative who was a pastor of a church committed such acts, there is no other position that is line with our call to protect our lambs from the wolves.

I am also mindful of the previous poster who noted that this individual can "preach" well, yet that some of the most loquacious preachers have been some of the most vile heretics.

 

Bring the kids back and let Pastor Harvey preach.