down, and Lucifer is placing subtle temptations on a path that leads to a terrible fall.

And that is why I was flip flopping back and forth in judgment, and that is why I write today. Sometime last night, as I was struggling to make sense of this terrible fall of a Christian Leader, I think I finally made it all balance in my mind and in my soul.

A man of God has been removed from his leadership position when his human frailties overcame his spiritual works. He will never be a leader of the faithful again. His works that glorify the LORD GOD will endure to the end. The works that were done to glorify him will not.

Every great man has great potential for righteous works, and great potential for sin. It is the nature of men in power that allows them to rise to great heights and fall to great depths. That is the frailty of human beings who lead others…the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Ted Haggard, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggert, Jesse Jackson are all good men blessed with charismatic personalities, deep faith and driving leadership skills that far exceed the amount apportioned to the faithful congregation of believers. Yet, at the time when their ministries, influence and leadership has reached the great heights that separate their works for the LORD GOD from the common works of man and their god, they come crashing down in the depraved, nasty, pornographic, fleshly world of lust.

Oh, the crashes are heard throughout the world, as the world audience repeats the news over and over that a great man of God has fallen once again. The weak in faith lose their shepherds; the strong in faith waver and feel shame.

The worldly common people take great joy in the fall of the leaders of Believers, because it allows them to assume a position of superiority over the fallen, a task once impossible when the leaders were strong. They dance a jig on their sins, and attempt to discredit the good works with their vulgar songs of hate.

And I am faced with a dilemma once again. A preacher has fallen and I should respond. Has the LORD GOD removed him from his position of power because of false teachings and false ways, or has Lucifer once again used lust to destroy a man of God?

Surely they knew the consequences of their weak submission to the lustful temptations. Over and over and over we witness the strong leaders fall for the same things, every time. Some of the strong leaders of the Faithful, like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham, committed early on to avoid these predictable temptations with common sense rules that governed their behaviors. Why don’t all Christian leaders take the same precautions?

It gets cluttered and confusing from my place of judgment. Every time I weigh it, the measure comes out differently. On one hand I’m angry when a man given so many blessings and so many opportunities to do great and enduring works that glorify Him, throws it all away for stupid moments of lustful abandonment. On the other hand, the difficulty in living in two different worlds, with one foot in spiritual and one foot in natural is sometimes almost impossible to navigate, when the burdens of leadership weighs down, and Lucifer is placing subtle temptations on a path that leads to a terrible fall.

And that is why I was flip flopping back and forth in judgment, and that is why I write today. Sometime last night, as I was struggling to make sense of this terrible fall of a Christian Leader, I think I finally made it all balance in my mind and in my soul.

A man of God has been removed from his leadership position when his human frailties overcame his spiritual works. He will never be a leader of the faithful again. His works that glorify the LORD GOD will endure to the end. The works that were done to glorify him will not.

<orks for the LORD GOD from the common works of man and their god, they come crashing down in the depraved, nasty, pornographic, fleshly world of lust.

Oh, the crashes are heard throughout the world, as the world audience repeats the news over and over that a great man of God has fallen once again. The weak in faith lose their shepherds; the strong in faith waver and feel shame.

The worldly common people take great joy in the fall of the leaders of Believers, because it allows them to assume a position of superiority over the fallen, a task once impossible when the leaders were strong. They dance a jig on their sins, and attempt to discredit the good works with their vulgar songs of hate.

And I am faced with a dilemma once again. A preacher has fallen and I should respond. Has the LORD GOD removed him from his position of power because of false teachings and false ways, or has Lucifer once again used lust to destroy a man of God?

Surely they knew the consequences of their weak submission to the lustful temptations. Over and over and over we witness the strong leaders fall for the same things, every time. Some of the strong leaders of the Faithful, like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham, committed early on to avoid these predictable temptations with common sense rules that governed their behaviors. Why don’t all Christian leaders take the same precautions?

It gets cluttered and confusing from my place of judgment. Every time I weigh it, the measure comes out differently. On one hand I’m angry when a man given so many blessings and so many opportunities to do great and enduring works that glorify Him, throws it all away for stupid moments of lustful abandonment. On the other hand, the difficulty in living in two different worlds, with one foot in spiritual and one foot in natural is sometimes almost impossible to navigate, when the burdens of leadership weighs down, and Lucifer is placing subtle temptations on a path that leads to a terrible fall.

And that is why I was flip flopping back and forth in judgment, and that is why I write today. Sometime last night, as I was struggling to make sense of this terrible fall of a Christian Leader, I think I finally made it all balance in my mind and in my soul.

A man of God has been removed from his leadership position when his human frailties overcame his spiritual works. He will never be a leader of the faithful again. His works that glorify the LORD GOD will endure to the end. The works that were done to glorify him will not.

attempt to discredit the good works with their vulgar songs of hate.

And I am faced with a dilemma once again. A preacher has fallen and I should respond. Has the LORD GOD removed him from his position of power because of false teachings and false ways, or has Lucifer once again used lust to destroy a man of God?

Surely they knew the consequences of their weak submission to the lustful temptations. Over and over and over we witness the strong leaders fall for the same things, every time. Some of the strong leaders of the Faithful, like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham, committed early on to avoid these predictable temptations with common sense rules that governed their behaviors. Why don’t all Christian leaders take the same precautions?

It gets cluttered and confusing from my place of judgment. Every time I weigh it, the measure comes out differently. On one hand I’m angry when a man given so many blessings and so many opportunities to do great and enduring works that glorify Him, throws it all away for stupid moments of lustful abandonment. On the other hand, the difficulty in living in two different worlds, with one foot in spiritual and one foot in natural is sometimes almost impossible to navigate, when the burdens of leadership weighs down, and Lucifer is placing subtle temptations on a path that leads to a terrible fall.

And that is why I was flip flopping back and forth in judgment, and that is why I write today. Sometime last night, as I was struggling to make sense of this terrible fall of a Christian Leader, I think I finally made it all balance in my mind and in my soul.

A man of God has been removed from his leadership position when his human frailties overcame his spiritual works. He will never be a leader of the faithful again. His works that glorify the LORD GOD will endure to the end. The works that were done to glorify him will not.

ations with common sense rules that governed their behaviors. Why don’t all Christian leaders take the same precautions?

It gets cluttered and confusing from my place of judgment. Every time I weigh it, the measure comes out differently. On one hand I’m angry when a man given so many blessings and so many opportunities to do great and enduring works that glorify Him, throws it all away for stupid moments of lustful abandonment. On the other hand, the difficulty in living in two different worlds, with one foot in spiritual and one foot in natural is sometimes almost impossible to navigate, when the burdens of leadership weighs down, and Lucifer is placing subtle temptations on a path that leads to a terrible fall.

And that is why I was flip flopping back and forth in judgment, and that is why I write today. Sometime last night, as I was struggling to make sense of this terrible fall of a Christian Leader, I think I finally made it all balance in my mind and in my soul.

A man of God has been removed from his leadership position when his human frailties overcame his spiritual works. He will never be a leader of the faithful again. His works that glorify the LORD GOD will endure to the end. The works that were done to glorify him will not.

down, and Lucifer is placing subtle temptations on a path that leads to a terrible fall.

And that is why I was flip flopping back and forth in judgment, and that is why I write today. Sometime last night, as I was struggling to make sense of this terrible fall of a Christian Leader, I think I finally made it all balance in my mind and in my soul.

A man of God has been removed from his leadership position when his human frailties overcame his spiritual works. He will never be a leader of the faithful again. His works that glorify the LORD GOD will endure to the end. The works that were done to glorify him will not.

BUT…

My Christian brother has fallen into the grasps of Satan, and I just can’t turn my back and pretend that his loss doesn’t matter. Our beliefs and our paths of faith have always been different, but our adoption through Christ has made us brothers.

It breaks my heart to see my Christian brother so low, so broken, so lost as the world laughs and the wicked dance. So when you say your prayers today, please include Rev. Haggard in them, and ask God for His wonderful mercy to shine on him, and allow him to stand once again, not as a leader of the faithful, but as strong, good and faithful man of God.