Another one BITES the dust?

I would believe 1/3 or more. Power corrupts. And the corrupt are drawn to power.

 

Oooorrrrrr.....maybe it is not about power but simply about fallen human beings. We need to be praying for our pastors and church leaders.

 

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Point taken...

....but I have witnessed a great many pastors secretly involved in porn and sexual indiscretions and ministered to them. There are also groups around America that are designed to leaders of the church who need help with this sin! See this link - http://www.clergyrecovery.com/?p=40

And another - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/25/clergy-battle-porn-addiction_n_1110981.html

It is real, and denying it doesn't make it so! Here's a page of inks for you to start looking through - http://search.aol.com/aol/search?query=pastors+hooked+on+porn&s_it=client97_searchbox

If it is happening in other pulpits, it is happening under the Baptist cloth too!

 

I'm well aware of the problem, RD2. I've been working the last few months with the Missouri Baptist Convention and the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists to teach pastors about the dangers, establish programming that will help identify problem areas, and counsel pastors who submit. Both conventions advise their subscribing churches to allow sabbaticals for pastors who self-identify and seek help.

What I've found is that the statistics I've heard over the years, that 40% to as high as 70% of pastors have either a pornography, other sexual addiction, or adultery problem, are wrong. It isn't that high. Those statistics appear to come from secular questionnaires that are being misinterpreted by analysts who don't understand 1) the honesty, and 2) the guilt that pastors associate with certain thoughts, which is essentially as far as most of it goes.

That's not to say there aren't a lot of pastors in need of help, nor do in any way I intend to negate your great work in counseling and guiding your peers. I pray that continues to be a focal point for you, that you help as many as are willing. In fact, given my ministry has been heretofore to laymen, I wonder if, in PM, you might suggest any differences you've noted in approach to counseling the pastors. Thanks.