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Christians when a respected Christian leader or pastor falls into sin and disqualifies themselves from ministry.

Obviously, I think to start with, we should say it's an occasion for great sorrow, for lamentation even, crying out to God in prayer.

And I think there's some other things that I would want to add to that.

One is, you know, sometimes when something like this happens, especially if the individual who has fallen into sin differs from us

on some point. Maybe they have different theology, maybe they're part of a different Christian

tradition. Sometimes it becomes an opportunity for Christians to dunk on one another. And what I mean by

that is to point out, you know, well, this person, look at what they also believed.

Look at this theology that they held to sort of make sense why they fell into this sin.

I think that that's just unhelpful.

It's a way of capitalizing on another person's fall and attempting to justify maybe your own theology in the process.

And that's not to say that our theology doesn't affect and shape the way that we live.

But it's probably unwise to approach the situation in that way.

Additionally, I would say we don't want to speculate.

A lot of times I think there's too much speculation, especially initially, people who really

love and respect this individual who has fallen, sometimes we'll speculate and think,

well, it probably wasn't that bad, or people are just giving this individual a hard time.

And, you know, we tell ourselves, well, it's a lot better.

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