Supernatural Anointing by Julia Loren

Author:Julia Loren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

What Is Restoration?

Many roads lead to destruction, but the way back is unpaved and unmapped. Independent churches usually have no plan in place or protocol acknowledged to handle the fallout of a minister’s fall from grace. Shocked and embarrassed, the board members often react in judgment rather than love. One church may seek to kick the minister out, dismissing him quietly. Another church may try to punish and humiliate the “offender” on his way out the door. The minister ends up feeling abandoned, hurt, and betrayed by the barrage of abusive, caustic words hurled like stones from the lips of his brothers and sisters.

Those who offer the fallen leader some formal restoration process line him up with counselors for a predetermined length of time, according to the issue. Someone who has had an affair with a church secretary may fall into one category of formal restoration process; a practicing homosexual with multiple partners may fall into another category; and a pedophile still another.

One of the most dominant sexual sins rampant among leaders and followers of Christ seems to be pornography. The use of pornography is seen as a “victimless crime” that is not often taken seriously and usually receives little or no attention by the church board even if it does come to light. Those who take it seriously understand the implications of its use and realize just how much the use of porn impacts not only the minister, but also his family and the atmosphere of the church.

The Web site safefamilies.org offers a long list of chilling statistics about the use of pornography. Just the following statistics I gleaned gives us a clue as to why the Church is so weak.

A 1996 Promise Keepers survey at one of their stadium events revealed that over 50% of the men in attendance were involved with pornography within one week of attending the event.

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