"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" Mark 8:36-37
So this week a another prominent evangelical leader has fallen. When you think about what lead to this consider the 14,000 member multi-million dollar church, the weekly phone calls to president Bush...Thats a full life, probably busy, probably extreme pressure, probably more than anything extreme isolation from the very community he was trying to lead/serve. When you are that guy, and you are tempted who would you tell? How do you care for your soul when you have so many external expectations and obligations?
Its too easy to hate Ted and any others who have fallen. Its to easy to blame them for our own suffering, anger at God, the church etc. Ted has a wife and five children. They were probably already hurting because their daddy was so busy...but now?
More than anything its a reminder that nothing in the world is more important than the condition of our soul. So take time this week and consider your soul. Is it being fed?
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This situation is so difficult to take because of Haggart’s own zeal as a “culture warrior.” He fought so hard to protect the very moral values that he violated. I can care less if Haggart is gay, as long as his wife and family understand, but the utter hypocrisy of his actions is unbearable.
Once again, as in the Mark Foley scandal, a leader has been caught doing the very thing he condemned so loudly. What I take from this is that we shouldn’t hold up our leaders on such a high pedestal, or maybe we shouldn’t have leaders at all. Perhaps the small voice of the Spirit is leadership enough for us all.
I’m tired of being embarrassed by these people…
between this and Sadaam being sentenced to hanging, I was really depressed last week. What is this world coming to?
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