"Christianity Today" posted a great article regarding sexual standards for Pastors and other roles that are divinely designed to be standard bearers for God's people.
Personally, I am more than fatigued with the "compromised compassiontes" who are willing to extend unprincipled mercy and all to eager to pervert biblical grace when leaders are caught or exposed for committing sexual sin.
You will note that I took the liberty to underline certain points. Refreshing indeeeed!
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"...among Christians, consistent enforcement constantly butts heads with grace. How do we apply grace to pastors, teachers, and others whose calling involves modeling the Christian life for those younger and still very much in formation?
Often when institutions exercise discipline, someone cries, "I thought Christianity was all about grace!"
Grace does not always, everywhere, and immediately mean wiping the slate clean. Communities need to take into account the impact that leaders' misbehavior has on others. To express the comprehensiveness of God's grace, institutional forgiveness of an offender must also focus pastoral support on the wounded and betrayed.
We apply grace differently to students and others whose lives are, by definition,
still in development. We rightly expect Christian faculty and clergy to model the Christian life."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/february/toughgracesexstandards.html?start=2
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