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NASB | 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Timothy 3:2 Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, |
Subject: Elder must be 'the husband of one wife'? |
Bible Note: Hank again I ask that you take no offense, and I’m not impugning someone I don’t even know. The fact remains after years of marriage counseling I have never seen a problem marriage that both parties didn't have major issues that needed to be dealt with. Were those issues severe enough to take a man out of ministry, I don’t know but God does. I too have known men and women that have successfully carried on in the ministry after the disaster of divorce. But I’m forced to ask a question was it God’s perfect will or something else? Just because they succeed, and just because they did good things does not mean God preferred or even wanted it that way. Surveys today say an alarming percentage of clergy and missionaries are involved in internet pornography, are they still ministering? Yes. Are they successful? Some are some aren’t. I heard a testimony from a man that had a very fast growing church in the south and it was happening while he was up into ears in porn, seeing hookers, and thinking about suicide. He had the gun to his head before he broke. Praise God! God is still on the throne. The man came to senses, resigned his church, sought help and is well on the road to recovery. Please brother this was not attack against your friend or his ministry. I’m just raising a question of the logic that says I know someone that has done it, so therefore it must be okay. |