Comments on: The Four Steps to Moral Failure for a Spiritual Leader http://www.charlesstone.com/the-four-steps-to-moral-failure-for-a-spiritual-leader/ Pastoral Leadership, Pastor Leadership, Church Leadership Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Krycho http://www.charlesstone.com/the-four-steps-to-moral-failure-for-a-spiritual-leader/#comment-253 Chris Krycho Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:43:58 +0000 http://www.charlesstone.com/blog/?p=906#comment-253 Interestingly, 9Marks just referenced a similar list in their link to Gary Lamb's post <a href='http://www.9marks.org/blog/why-pastors-have-affairs' rel="nofollow">here</a>; his list was: — Most pastors struggle with some sort of insecurity. — Most pastors have no accountability. — Most pastors live their lives serving everyone except their wife. — The church has made pastors into rock stars rather than regular men called by God. The lists seem very complementary to me; your particulars here seem to spell out the path that gets taken when any one of the four issues that Lamb points out become too strong (especially in conjunction with each other). Interestingly, 9Marks just referenced a similar list in their link to Gary Lamb’s post here; his list was:
— Most pastors struggle with some sort of insecurity.
— Most pastors have no accountability.
— Most pastors live their lives serving everyone except their wife.
— The church has made pastors into rock stars rather than regular men called by God.

The lists seem very complementary to me; your particulars here seem to spell out the path that gets taken when any one of the four issues that Lamb points out become too strong (especially in conjunction with each other).

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