11月
2006
枯槁： 快乐性、Meth和伪善(份额？)
为特德请祈祷枯槁，新的生活教会在科罗拉多。 噢，耶稣将原谅枯槁快乐性按摩、meth用途和伪善。 但那里福音派基督徒和宽宏新闻怎么样？
呀，我知道许多伙计是在枯槁， Evangelicals的震动(NEA)的全国协会领导和人经常是和布什白宫保持联系，将参与事象快乐性，药物，并且知道什么其他。
放射性微尘从枯槁快乐性入场
采访几基督徒在枯槁选拔，并且快乐性问题，我们得出了愤怒、痛苦、背叛和憎恶的感觉。 一25岁基督徒唯一女孩哀叹她不知道她是否可能再信任另一位“基督徒领导”。 多么哀伤的是那？ 我们祈祷其他唯一基督徒不会受快乐性罪孽的消极地影响，或者他们的领导犯的任何其他罪。
特德枯槁道歉为快乐性罪孽
新闻获得乐趣锤击牧师特德的快乐性入场，特别是根据他的公开反对到同性恋和同性恋婚姻。 然而，多数媒体发泄途径方便地忽略了道歉枯槁信件的心脏对他的教会为他的分成快乐性。 所以，我们认为这里显示它是好：
对我新的生活教会家庭：我很抱歉。 我为失望、背叛和创伤是抱歉。 我为可怕的例子i是抱歉为您设置了。我有一淹没，所有消耗悲伤在我的心脏为您和I和我家体验了在过去几天期间的痛苦。 我为导致了羞辱和窘态对你们大家的情况是很抱歉。我问这笔记今晨读对您，因此我可能澄清我的心脏状况对您。 前四天是，很困难为我，我家和你们大家和我与我说在与记者的采访期间会捉住来自或去我的家的我的某些事进一步混淆了情况。 但我单独上午负责任对我的矛盾语句造成的混乱。 The fact is, I am guilty of sexual immorality, and I take responsibility for the entire problem.
I am a deceiver and a liar. There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life.
For extended periods of time, I would enjoy victory and rejoice in freedom. Then, from time to time, the dirt that I thought was gone would resurface, and I would find myself thinking thoughts and experiencing desires that were contrary to everything I believe and teach.
Through the years, I’ve sought assistance in a variety of ways, with none of them proving to be effective in me. Then, because of pride, I began deceiving those I love the most because I didn’t want to hurt or disappoint them.
The public person I was wasn’t a lie; it was just incomplete. When I stopped communicating about my problems, the darkness increased and finally dominated me. As a result, I did things that were contrary to everything I believe.
The accusations that have been leveled against me are not all true, but enough of them are true that I have been appropriately and lovingly removed from ministry. Our church’s overseers have required me to submit to the oversight of Dr. James Dobson, Pastor Jack Hayford, and Pastor Tommy Barnett. Those men will perform a thorough analysis of my mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical life. They will guide me through a program with the goal of healing and restoration for my life, my marriage, and my family.
I created this entire situation. The things that I did opened the door for additional allegations . But I am responsible; I alone need to be disciplined and corrected. An example must be set.
It is important that you know how much I love and appreciate my wife, Gayle. What I did should never reflect in a negative way on her relationship with me. She has been and continues to be incredible. The problem is not with her, my children or any of you. It was created 100 percent by me.
I have been permanently removed from the office of Senior Pastor of New Life Church. Until a new senior pastor is chosen, our Associate Senior Pastor Ross Parsley will assume all of the the responsibilities of the office. On the day he accepted this new role, he and his wife, Aimee, had a new baby boy. A new life in the midst of this circumstance - I consider the confluence of events to be prophetic. Please commit to join with Pastor Ross and the others in church leadership to make their service to you easy and without burden. They are fine leaders. You are blessed.
I appreciate your loving and forgiving nature, and I humbly ask you to do a few things.
1.) Please stay faithful to God through service and giving.
2.) Please forgive me. I am so embarrassed and ashamed. I caused this and I have no excuse. I am a sinner. I have fallen. I desperately need to be forgiven and healed.
3.) Please forgive my accuser. He is revealing the deception and sensuality that was in my life. Those sins, and others, need to be dealt with harshly. So, forgive him and, actually, thank God for him. I am trusting that his action will make me, my wife and family, and ultimately all of you, stronger. He didn’t violate you; I did.
4.) Please stay faithful to each other. Perform your functions well. Encourage each other and rejoice in God’s faithfulness. Our church body is a beautiful body, and like every family, our strength is tested and proven in the midst of adversity. Because of the negative publicity I’ve created with my foolishness, we can now demonstrate to the world how our sick and wounded can be healed, and how even disappointed and betrayed church bodies can prosper and rejoice.
Gayle and I need to be gone for a while. We will never return to a leadership role at New Life Church. In our hearts, we will always be members of this body. We love you as our family. I know this situation will put you to the test. I’m sorry I’ve created the test, but please rise to this challenge and demonstate the incredible grace that is available to all of us.
Ted Haggard
Pastor Haggard’s gay sex confession was heartwrenching and raw. And it was all somehow very refreshing to finally hear the truth stripped of all excuses, and laid bare for all to see. Okay, Haggard was caught like a rat, and lied at first. But he eventually did come clean in a humble way about his gay sex encounters and struggles. He didn’t have to do this.
Look, was Haggard being a hypocrite for making public stands against the homosexual lifestyle, while at the same time engaging in gay sex? Yes. Did he commit a grievious sin as a minister of of Jesus Christ? Yes again.
How Pastor Haggard Affects Us
After I read Pastor Ted’s apology, the Lord convicted me in several areas:
- Many of us, including myself, have judged Pastor Haggard over his gay sex affair. But do we have have need to confess secret sins as well? Now that was a scary thought!
- Am I truly willing to forgive Pastor Haggard, and better yet, Christian close to us who have done us wrong?
Bible Verses of Day
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:1-5
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