Should a Pastor date one of the Church Youth?

David Cooke Jr... Looking at your profile you know of where you speak!... Just one little tree on fire... pretty soon a forest!... The Law has spoken!... Two thumbs up!... Brother Glen

 

Okay, then no. On one 21 or older has any business dating a minor. If he were 18, I'd say maybe, but 21? Absolutely not. If he cares for her, he'll wait until she's 18 to date her. THink about it. He's an adult in every way. He's dating someone who, three years prior, probably wasn't even menstruating.

Note: this has nothing to do about sex, or anything of those lines. It has to do with appropriate dating ages.

 

Oh, dear Lord in Heaven.

The fact that this even has to be discussed distresses me greatly.

 

If the Girls parents and the girl see nothing wrong with it. The Bible say nothing bad about it.

I say let them!

 

The man is 21 and the girl is less than 16???!! Man, oh, man!! Let's pretend I'm the girl's dad--and lets just pretend I'm headed for the gun cabinet--but, horror of all horrors--my wife gets to the gun cabinet before I do!!

Absolutely not!! Not on your life!! And not over my dead body!! And there's nothing in the Bible that says its wrong--but by golly, there's a law in the state of Mississippi thats called Statutory Rape and Contributing to the deliquincy of a minor--I'd have the Sheriff on that man before his heart beat two times in a row!! And the Sheriff had better hurry!!

 

And the church members--they don't see anything wrong with it?? Gosh, I was born at night--but it wasn't last night!!!

 

John3,
The Bible doesn't say not to jump off tall buildings or eat razor blades either, but that doens't make it a good idea!
Hello

 

Hi all, something interesting to consider. How old was Mary when she gave birth to Jesus? I KNOW she wasn't 21. . . or 18. . . In the Jewish culture, when was a boy considered a man? Isn't it 13?

I heard a sermon that spoke in passing about how we as a society have increasingly "infantalized" our youth, raising legal age higher and higher. I have also heard speakers on shows like Focus on the Family (I think) mention how the "postponing of adulthood and marriage" has helped to aggrivate the sexuial promiscuity problem.

What was it about our OWN history that equipped what we would consider children by today's standards to go out and manage their own home and cultivate a plot of land on the prarie?

I make no stand on the issue of the age thing of the pastor and the young lady in the youth group. I just wonder why we as a culture wait so long to equip our youth for taking on adult responsibility.

Brett

 

I'm still headed toward the gun cabinet--if the preacher knows whats good for him . . . ! Few things are worth going to jail over--and this subject is one of 'um. Two things--(1)you mess with my wife and I'll hunt you down (2) you mess with my juvenile children and I'll hunt you down!

That preacher mess with my daughter--I'd be on him like a Pitbull on a Housecat!!