When Our Leaders Fail

Doctrine and Devotion

Joe Thorn & Jimmy Fowler

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Many of our public leaders in the evangelical church have fallen morally and have either resigned or been removed from ministry. Most recently, Frank Page, former President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee resigned, confessing to having been in a "morally inappropriate relationship." Dr. Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary penned an encouraging "open letter" to Southern Baptist on how to move forward after this most recent admission of guilt. You can read that here. Jimmy and Joe have a little fun with the wording in that letter, and then get into the subject at hand. How do we respond to the moral failing of leaders we love or respect? The outline is below.

When Our Leaders Fail We Must:

1. Be strong in the Lord.
2. Hold them accountable.
3. Watch out for pride and bitterness.
4. Evaluate your own life.
5. Learn from their mistakes.
6. Do not justify your sins in light of their sins.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr and Devotion. A podcast exploring Christian faith and practice from a
0:18.2	reformed Baptist perspective. My name is Joe Thorne. I'm the lead pastor of
0:21.8	Edmer Fellowship in St Charles Illinois. And I'm the lead pastor of Redeemer Fellowship.
0:26.4	Happy Monday.
0:27.4	Well, yeah, yeah, happy Monday.
0:29.6	You know, beginning of the week.
0:31.6	No, well, Sunday is the beginning of the week. But beginning of the week. The week. No, well Sunday is the beginning of the work week.
0:35.0	Oh, okay.
0:36.0	Yes.
0:37.0	Except for me.
0:38.0	Because I might be get on Sunday too.
0:40.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the savitarians are all mad.
0:44.2	Yeah, no, it gets the pastors work on this on the Lord's Day.
0:47.0	How dare even, even the hardcore savitarians?
0:49.8	How dare you?
0:50.8	Jesus worked on the first day of the week.
0:52.1	Well, someone needs to censor that man.
0:54.0	Just saying.
0:56.0	So, we got over 300 registered for the conference.
1:00.0	That man, I'm pumped.
1:01.0	This is going to be good.
1:02.0	Yeah. It's going to be great. I'm excited for it and I better start working on my my preaching
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