Thread: Pastor Fred Price Jr. Steps Down Over 'Personal Misjudgments'

Originally Posted by victoryword

A good man who will do great things for the Lord as he works on whatever issues have hindered him. I look forward to the future when this day becomes a testimony of God's grace and how he will even be able to take these issues to build up thousands of others who are struggling in the battles of life.

Question: why does it have to be to "thousands of others"? Right now I'm listening to someone on YT give commentary on Fred Jr's situation, and a lot of what this person is saying makes sense (even if this person has a root of bitterness against "church", which IMO he has) BUT...basically this person is saying that the whole "restoration" process as practiced by a lot of charismatic/pente churches is a sham...Someone on this forum (might have been Archbishop Twinkles, I'm not sure ) said in essence, these folk (pastors, ministry leaders) that have had 'personal misjudgements' (SIN) in their lives don't need to return to a pulpit after being "restored" (who exactly determines that anyway?) but go flip burgers somewhere and focus on serving God in their own sphere of influence.

Over the years we've seen a lot of public "fall from graces"...we've roasted these persons on the forum ad nauseum... I for one really don't care if these people get back on the same level they were before "their fall from grace", but as long as they are truly repentant and not trying to regain whatever "glory" or pedestal people place them on, then I pray they do well.

here's the video I was watching (there is a Part one but it was basically the clip Krystian posted)

I don't think that that was either TT's or my concern. My concern is that a damaged reputation may hinder the minister from continuing to minister effectively even if there is full restoration. We both were concerned that the repentance itself may be a sham, making the restoration a sham. For instance the "find young woman, divorce old wife, go through restoration while courting young woman, finish restoration and marry young woman and go back on the pulpit" thing that seems to happen here and there. Which is basically a matter of waiting out the restoration process and it seems to never result in repenting as in admitting being tempted into divorce by the appearance of the new flame then having the original marriage restored.

Originally Posted by FaithfulOne

Question: why does it have to be to "thousands of others"? Right now I'm listening to someone on YT give commentary on Fred Jr's situation, and a lot of what this person is saying makes sense (even if this person has a root of bitterness against "church", which IMO he has) BUT...basically this person is saying that the whole "restoration" process as practiced by a lot of charismatic/pente churches is a sham...Someone on this forum (might have been Archbishop Twinkles, I'm not sure ) said in essence, these folk (pastors, ministry leaders) that have had 'personal misjudgements' (SIN) in their lives don't need to return to a pulpit after being "restored" (who exactly determines that anyway?) but go flip burgers somewhere and focus on serving God in their own sphere of influence.

Over the years we've seen a lot of public "fall from graces"...we've roasted these persons on the forum ad nauseum... I for one really don't care if these people get back on the same level they were before "their fall from grace", but as long as they are truly repentant and not trying to regain whatever "glory" or pedestal people place them on, then I pray they do well.

here's the video I was watching (there is a Part one but it was basically the clip Krystian posted)

Originally Posted by victoryword

Never said you were wrong. You could be 100% right but since there is no concrete evidence then there is no basis for judging FPJ's motives for resigning a mega church. Some senior pastors have resigned from mega-churches due to DEPRESSION and not so much immorality. One man resigned a mega-church because the leaders that worked along with him stifled him from other projects meant to reach the lost and hurting. Feeling that he could not reach more he became dissatisfied and resigned.

Not everyone is caught up in the "glory" of being a mega-church pastor nor does everyone resigned based on immorality. But even if the case happens to be immoral, we should love and pray for him whether he pastors a megachurch or a small church. The body of Christ must stop shooting its wounded, regardless of their prominence, and begin to pray for one another. As Jimmy Swaggart once said, the Christian army is the only army that shoots its own wounded.

Healing the wound may require true repentance :

Heb 12:12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.
13 “Make level paths for your feet,” so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed