Asst. Pastor Has Affair At My Church

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SocialArtist

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I should have been shocked. I wasn't. The fact was Pastor J was a class Asst. Pastor. The fact is a Pastor having an affair is practically common. It's happened in churches I've attended before.

Pastor J cheated on his Wife in an affair with a woman within the church. A church I left over two years ago. On FB however I decided to check in on him... his FB profile no where to be found. Upon an internet search I located general websites featuring Pastors. So I went to the churches home page to discover his profile missing.

I msg'd an old friend asking where he went, did he quit, move, get fired? I got no response. So I msg'd another friend and was provided the news.

Pastor J was a good-guy Pastor. Pastor cool and Pastor fun. Got along with everyone, some more than others obviously.

The fact was my ex-GF worhshipped him (to the best of my knowledge never engaged in an affair with him). Following our breakup (which is what it is, still on good terms) the aura of the church would vastly change. Back in those days Pastor J was a new guy. I was rich into my time with that church. Those were the peak days of the place... when everyone went. Still Pastor J to me was a guy who came in Post-Drama. A Drama phase where things were just crazy at church. I brokeup and left for other things in life.

In my time away, everyone left, Pastors were forced to resign. Pastor J rose in the ranks. My initial impressions of him were as an unmarried playa. Someone who didn't seem like an honest Christian. Then I learned he had a wife. An unattractive wife with zero confidence. Thought a guy who was such a playa would have a more suitable wife to be honest.

Anyways, I'd return 2-5x per year. Pastor J now had authority over the young adults and oddly... never led it like previous Pastor's did. Never would preach of teach. This was the post-Era of this church to me... aka Saved by the Bell the New Class as I referred to it. I grew on Pastor J and he on me. We eventually got along great.

Unfortunately, like I said... the guy had an affair and was fired.
 
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DanuckInUSA

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Therein the forgiveness of Christ is found....epic fail
 
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MaggieMye

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WHat is your point in posting this?
 
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jimmydiggs

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I'm lost. So he was a playa and made it up the command chain? Was he always a playa? Maybe I'm wrong in my understandin of what happened, but it seems to me that he should have resigned.
 
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MaggieMye

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Well this is a discussion group and there's not much to discuss. All you've done is spread news of someone's sin. So what is your motive in posting this?
 
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SocialArtist

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I'm lost. So he was a playa and made it up the command chain? Was he always a playa? Maybe I'm wrong in my understandin of what happened, but it seems to me that he should have resigned.
In a rational church. In a perfect world. This is reality and this church has it's amazing list of flaws. Sure all churches have flaws... but this place has it's list... so someone like this getting power isn't impossible.. granted the Head Pastor's own wife left him a few years ago... and no one said a word.
 
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NodMyHeadLikeYeah

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Dont hate the playa hate the game, at least thats what Pastor J said
 
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Well this is a discussion group and there's not much to discuss. All you've done is spread news of someone's sin. So what is your motive in posting this?
You're very overpowering first of all. Second.. this issue is bothering me and I'm looking for people to identify with.. if that's ok
 
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DanuckInUSA

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My comment applies in the way that our body that should be practicing forgiveness instead choosing to condemn their leader in sin.
 
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SocialArtist

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My comment applies in the way that our body that should be practicing forgiveness instead choosing to condemn their leader in sin.
The guys a good friend of mine.
 
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Crazy4GODword

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Therein the forgiveness of Christ is found....epic fail
lol no you did not just a "Epic Fail" did u? wow maybe the millionth time i hear that or the first time here in cc i heard that......
 
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dmdave17

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The guys a good friend of mine.
Oh. That 'splains' it. I believe that if he was your friend before you found out about his affair, he is your friend now. If he is repentant, forgive him "as the Lord forgave you". If he is not repentant, try to lead him to an understanding of what he did wrong. In any case, it is not ours to judge. The Bible is clear that God reserves judgment for Himself.

In any case, do not turn your back on him. The Christian response, I believe, is to remain a friend through the trials he must be experiencing.
 
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MaggieMye

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Well, you didn't ask any questions and we all know what scripture says about what he did so....? What is it that you want or need?
 
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Slepsog4

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Hello... call it what it is.... it is not an affair....

It is ADULTERY

He had sex (fornication) with a woman other than his wife = adultery.
 
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SantoSubito

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Situations like this is why I think the Catholic practice of reassigning a priest to a new parish after a set number of years is good thing. It prevents people from becoming too attached and enamored with the person rather than to the message. In fact his rising the command chain probably wouldn't have happened if he was subject to a bishop in an episcopal form of church governance. I would like to note that I'm not bashing any particular form of church governance over another. Each has it's own strengths, and situations like this is one thing an episcopacy is good at preventing.
 
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MaggieMye

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...and if this guy is a 'friend' of yours.... is your continued friendship to this guy condoning what he did or are you confronting him, in love, with his sin?
 
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SocialArtist

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...and if this guy is a 'friend' of yours.... is your continued friendship to this guy condoning what he did or are you confronting him, in love, with his sin?
I'm not going to address him. He's since deleted his FB and his cell (church cell) has been most likely been deactivated like a more close Pastoral friend of mine was. Like my buddy told me he's vanished off the face of the planet.
 
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I'm not going to address him. He's since deleted his FB and his cell (church cell) has been most likely been deactivated like a more close Pastoral friend of mine was. Like my buddy told me he's vanished off the face of the planet.
That's unfortunate. Do you think that there is any sin a man could commit that the blood of Christ has not paid for and covered? What is unfortunate is that when something like this happens people find out about it and they just begin to repeat the matter. They do not realize that love covers a multitude of sins. There are believers on this site that will not agree with me on this because they do not know the scriptures nor the love of God that does not repeat the matter.