letting people down part 2

previously i wrote about not wanting to let other people down. i think that is a part of us all. we want to please people and make them happy but for the most part we do not want them to be dissapointed in us. we want to live up to the potential that we have but at the same time we dont want to hurt another person.

it is inevitable though that we will let people down from time to time. and in reality we will be let down by people around us.

i have been let down a few times by different people but i want to dedicate this blog to those in the ministry that have let myself or others down in the past.

1. i had this youth pastor once who left our church to become a senior pastor. this didnt hurt but about a year later i found out his wife and him were going through a divorce. i lost track of him.

2. my first youth camp was one of my most memorable speakers of my life. about 4 years later he had an affair with a student. i believe this man is now a janitor.

3. my freshman year of college. the senior pastor of a church right beside the campus had an affair with one of the congregants. last i knew he was selling cars

4. my senior year of college. the associate pastor at the church i was attending had an affair with one of the congregants. also selling cars.

5. also senior year. denominational figure somewhat close to my father growing up was caught misusing funds.

6. also senior year. yet another denominational leader was caught in fbi sting operation meeting up with what he thought would be a 13 year old.

i only had a personal relationship with half of these people. and i want to stress that i am not positive that by these persons moral failures that they let me down personally. why? well i am not positive how many times the devil has tempted them in all of their own circumstances. i also dont how how hard the devil pursued them to get them to fall. i also do not know what i would do in their situation.

i am however disappointed in the idea that some of these people were unrepentive.

i am also disappointed by the concept that only one of these people received help from our denomination to eventually gp back into the ministry. maybe these people didnt ask or even want help but i want these people to know that they are appreciated no matter what they have done in the past.

by my observations i think it is more acceptable for someone who does not claim to be a christian. lives a life of sin, theft, drugs, etc and then commits his life to Christ and turns around and then feels a call to the ministry. we need to accept them so the can reach people that we are unable to reach. but why is it to accept someone who was a pastor or another denominational figure who has fallen back into the ministry. this is something that has been on my mind lately what do you think? grace, grace God's grace. grace that will pardon and cleanse our sins.