Ted Haggard: The Aftermath
It looks like the issue of evangelical pin-up boy Ted Haggard's spectacular fall-from-grace is going to attract a lot of soul-searching among Christian ministers. The leader of the National Association of Evangelicals' dabblings with meth and rent-boys is pretty big news and the schadenfreude exhibited by his opponents and detractors is unsurprising. We all like people getting some of their own medicine.
Mark Driscoll has some thoughts on how leaders can protect themselves from adultery. It's interesting that one of his concerns is about pastors' wives 'letting themselves go'. He doesn't lay the blame squarely at the wives' door (which would be horrendously unfair) but it is something you see a lot in Christian marriages. In fact Andrew Beaujon makes a similar observation about married Christian men in ministry - and Driscoll himself is looking distinctly pudgy these days. Could it possibly work both ways?
Out of Ur has some thoughts, which I will read through when I stop being distracted by the banner ad featuring glowing endorsement of a DVD by none other than...Ted Haggard.
Categories: Gospel
Tags: ted-haggard; mark-driscoll; soul-searching
posted by Dave @ 10:25 AM
2 Comments:
Perhaps the answer is that everyone is human as much as these leaders make out they have some kind of super christian conection to God they dont they have the same one that you and I have ...
I think the lession is preachers and church leaders guess what your human and your going to make a mistake sooner or later so perhaps judge less and throw less stones.
for once i will have to agree 100% sarah....
let me take you out for a bacon sandwich...
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