Oh, How The
Mighty Have Fallen
by
Bill Cassada ©2004 The Lion's
Heart Ministries, Inc. [Editor's
Note: This article was originally published to our email subscriber list
on October 22, 2004]
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Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
by Bill Cassada
© 2004 The Lion's Heart Ministries
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I had an eerie sense of foreboding as I read the email from a friend
recently. In the email message was a reference to a special bulletin on
Rick Joyner's Morningstar Ministries Web Site, and as I logged on to the
site and began to read the announcement, my sense of foreboding quickly
materialized into a mixture of devastation, anger, grief, and pain. The
announcement was a special bulletin signed by Rick Joyner, Jack Deere,
and Mike Bickle, alluding to the fact that it had been discovered
earlier this year that Prophet Paul Cain had become an alcoholic, and
had recently been involved in homosexual activity. After admitting to
these sinful practices, Paul was placed under discipline, and agreed to
a process of restoration. The bulletin went on to say that "Paul has
resisted this process and has continued in his sin." For that
reason, Joyner, Deere, and Bickle have correctly chosen to bring the
matter before the church publicly. [1]
I sat still, somewhat in shock, as I sipped my morning coffee and
attempted to process what I was reading. I admit that I was
experiencing some paradoxical emotions as I pondered the far-reaching
implications of this very dramatic and tragic revelation. A distorted
sense of vindication on the one hand, as the message of personal purity,
holiness, repentance, and accountability before a Holy God has been at
the core of everything we have preached and taught over the history of
our ministry. But this fleeting soulish satisfaction was far outweighed
by the pervading sense of sadness I felt that, once again, the enemy of
God had somehow managed to bring down yet another very respected leader
in Christian circles.
Immorality has troubled many godly ministries over the years. The
Apostle Paul prophetically warned the Church that this problem would be
intensified in the end times. (2 Tim. 3:1-8) While the issue of
alcoholism is in itself enough of a problem, the rising tide of
homosexuality and other forms of sexual perversity are much larger
concerns across all of Christianity. The track record for the church in
the area of sexual immorality is not a pleasant one to walk down. Lest
we forget how quickly sin can so easily beset any of us, consider these
selected church headlines from recent years:
-
In March 1987, it was revealed
that PTL minister Jim Bakker had a sordid love affair with Jessica
Hahn, a former church secretary. Jim had given her $265,000 of the
ministry's money to keep her silent.[2]
Homosexuality was also rampant in his PTL studios. A leading
evangelist in PTL was once caught giving oral sex to a man in a room
in the Bakker's mansion.[3] Jim Bakker too may have
been involved in this rampant homosexuality.[4]
-
Assemblies of God Pastor Jimmy
Swaggart, who was at that time America's leading television
evangelist, resigned from his ministry after it was revealed he had
been consorting with a prostitute. In front of a congregation of
7,000 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he sobbed and confessed to "moral
failure." [5]
-
Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil
rights activist leader and two-time presidential candidate, who gave
President Clinton pastoral counsel during the Monica Lewinsky
scandal, shocked supporters when he admitted to fathering a child in
an extramarital affair.[6] The Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson admitted on Thursday, January 18, 2001, that he had an
extramarital affair that resulted in the birth of an illegitimate
daughter that was then 20 months old. Jackson's spokesman said
Jackson had had an affair with a woman who worked in the Washington
office of Jackson's civil rights group, the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition.
[7]
-
Singer and worship leader Kevin
Prosch, widely recognized as one of the leading figures in
contemporary worship, shocked many when he stepped down from
ministry in April 1999 after admitting to having "committed adultery
and used my gifting to manipulate the women involved...for my own
selfish gain and personal pleasure." [8]
-
Melbourne, Florida's Tabernacle
Pastor, Michael Thompson admitted "long-term, sexual sin due to
sexual addiction," as well as "massive deception, manipulation and
hiding," for which he said he was "truly sorry, broken-hearted and
deeply repentant." Thompson had admitted to two short-term affairs
several years ago, and one that lasted six years. One of the elders
said that Thompson told them that "he'd lied so much, he didn't know
what the truth is." [9]
Trouble In River City - "...that's
trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for
Pornography"
I bring these articles up not to dredge up painful memories, and
certainly not to cast any aspersions on any one single person. The
reason I write today is an attempt to broadcast in the most vociferous
terms possible, that we have "Trouble in River City -- and that's
trouble with a capital "T." The lyrics from the song "Ya Got Trouble"
go on to say..." Well, either you're closing your eyes...To a situation
you do now wish to acknowledge...Or you are not aware of the caliber of
disaster indicated..." [11] By trouble, I refer
specifically to the issue of rampant sexual immorality within the church
and the unwillingness of both leaders and membership to either discuss
or forthrightly deal with it, and in many cases, refusal to admit there
is even a problem. Like the proverbial "rhinoceros in the living room,"
psychoanalysts characterization of problems we all have but choose to
ignore, so also the church has its "elephant in the sanctuary," a
representation of the issue of sexual sin among church leaders in
particular, and across the broad spectrum of church in general.
As sick as I was to learn of Paul Cain's troubles, I suppose the most
disturbing part of Morningstar's special bulletin was the statement
"...we apologize to the body of Christ for our lack of discernment in
promoting Paul's ministry while he had these significant strongholds in
his life. We failed to see them until this year." Open admissions
such as this do much to affirm leadership credibility, maintain
integrity, and to establish a tough but necessary position regarding
sin. Unfortunately the problem of non-discernment has reached epidemic
proportions across much of the church. When we first began traveling in
ministry, we were thrust into a global travel scenario that not only
took us into many international churches, but a host of churches in the
U.S. as well. What we discovered in nearly every church we went into,
was that we invariably had to spend time in the prayer and deliverance
room with one or more members of the church staff. What we discovered
was both revealing and ugly. God pulled back the curtain of denial, and
showed us up front and personally that sexual immorality in many
different forms was rampant throughout the church world. While we at
first thought God was just trying to teach us about some of the basic
issues of deliverance ministry, we soon learned that we were being
provided a much broader perspective on the condition of the global
church. And what we experienced evoked a mixture of sorrow and
revulsion. We met many pastors, elders, and church members who were
addicted to pornography or compulsive masturbation, and often discovered
issues of pre-marital sex among pastors and staff. At first we thought
it was just a few isolated instances, but we were to quickly learn that
it was only the tip of a much larger iceberg.
Over the last seven years of our ministry, we have given forth in
integrity exactly what God showed us. We have taken the message of
purity, holiness, and sanctification everywhere we've taught or
preached. But after years on the ministry trail, I am sorry to report
to you that while there has been a surface acceptance of this kind of
teaching as being foundationally sound and biblical, the piercing truth
of personal accountability to God in matters of sexual issues has
largely been rejected. What we have found is that when we get too close
to the issues, the church begins to distance itself from any teaching on
sexual issues that comes too close to home. I recall one particular
church several years ago, where the pastor had asked me to teach at a
men's meeting about sexual immorality. I did what I was asked, and the
teaching was a between-the-eyes confrontation of the typical sexual
issues that men face. At ministry time, there was a terrific response
as many came forward to deal with sexual fantasies, compulsive
masturbation, and various pornographic addictions. Later, the pastor
said to me, "wow, that message was really strong!" How strong he
thought it really was became abundantly clear when we never heard from
them again about future ministry. Plans for participation with them in
an international ministry trip evaporated, we were never invited back,
and to this day have not heard from them. Unfortunately, this response
is a very typical one. The message is clear -- "Oh yeah, come on in and
give us a great conference weekend, but if you get too close to the
issues of our hearts, you'll never hear from us again." We slowly
realized that many churches only want a high-energy weekend filled with
teaching sessions, but not the life-changing power and presence of the
Holy Spirit.
Adultery -- In Your Face
In another church, there was a very obvious relationship between two
members of the worship team. So much so, that after some time we
concluded they were husband and wife. To our surprise, we discovered
that one of the two was still married to someone else but their spouse
had been written off by the church, because she didn't like Charismatics.
Although there did not appear to be strict physical sin, the spiritual
adultery that Jesus referred to in Matthew Chapter 5 was clearly
occurring. We confronted the pastors about the situation, but little
was ever done. Oh, they were both made to step down for a few weeks,
but continued to exhibit arrogant and unrepentant attitudes. They
weren't sorry for their sin, they were just sorry they no longer had a
platform. In the midst of this scenario, one of the women in the
congregation informed the pastor's wife that she was going to begin to
date a married man. Upon encountering surprise at her plan, her
response (referring to the worship team couple) was, "well, if they're
doing it, so can I!" After a few weeks, this couple was allowed back on
the platform, resplendent in their bad attitudes. The pastors never
seemed to understand the severity of the situation, or the spiritual
implications involved, never showed any intestinal fortitude about
dealing with it, and worse, failed to enforce biblical standards of
discipline and continue confronting and educating this couple that what
they were doing was wrong. This church leadership's unwillingness to
acknowledge or confront this issue constituted an endorsement of it, and
unfortunately appears to represent the mainstream attitude within the
church regarding sexual immorality.
These accounts are revealing in that they serve to illustrate the fact
that no one likes to either discuss or confront sexual sin. As such it
has become a hugely ignored and ever-growing pachyderm in our
sanctuaries. Pastors for the most part are not only unwilling to
confront these issues, but are often ignorant of their existence, and
they themselves are frequently addicted to the very immoral practices
that go on in their midst among their constituency. Consider these
statistics, which serve to confirm what I have personally observed
within the church:
- Joe E. Trull, co-author of the
book Ministerial Ethics (1993), concluded that "from 30-35 percent
of ministers of all denominations admit to having sexual
relationships -- from inappropriate touching and kissing to sexual
intercourse -- outside of marriage." Mr. Trull estimates that "at
least half" of that contact occurs in pastoral counseling.
[12]
- A 1984 Fuller Seminary survey of
1200 ministers showed one in five theologically conservative pastors
admitting to some sexual contact outside of marriage with a church
member, while over two-fifths of "moderate" and half of "liberal"
pastors owned up to the same. [13]
- A Journal of Pastoral Care article
summarizing a 1993 survey of Southern Baptist pastors showed 6
percent acknowledging sexual contact outside of marriage with
someone in the congregation.[14]
- Roy Wodruff, executive director of
the 3,000 member Association of Pastoral Counselors, estimates that
about 15 percent of pastors "either have [violated] or are violating
sexual ethical boundaries. [15]
- In a 1983 doctoral thesis by
Richard Blackmon, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed admitted
to sexual intercourse with a parishioner; 38% admitted to other
sexualized contact with a parishioner. [16]
- 51% of Pastors say Internet
pornography is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current
struggle. 4 in 10 pastors have visited a porn website.
[17]
- A 2000 Christianity Today
survey revealed that 33% of clergy responding to having visited a
sexually explicit web site. Of those who had visited a porn site,
53% had visited such sites "a few times" in the past year, and 18%
visit sexually explicit sites between a couple of times a month and
more than once a week.[18]
- These findings are confirmed by a
2000 survey by Leadership journal. Of the 564 pastors
responding, it was found that 40% of pastors online have visited a
pornographic web site. More than one-third of pastors had done so
in the past year.[19]
- Focus On The Family statistics
reveal that one in seven calls to their pastoral care hot line in
the year 2000 dealt with Internet pornography. [20]
- In the years following the 2000
surveys, the figures appear to be increasing. In March 2002,
Pastors.com conducted a pastor's forum poll of 1351 pastors.
According to the poll, 54% of the pastors had viewed Internet
pornography within the last year, and 30% of these had visited
within the last 30 days. [21]
In my own personal ministry experience I
would estimate that pornography and other various secret sexual sins are
problems among at least 50-60% of pastors, and that estimate is probably
low. As might be expected, the conditions and atmosphere which produce
this systemic problem spawn a host of other issues as well:
- In separate denomination surveys,
48% of United Church of Christ female ministers and 77% of United
Methodist female ministers reported having been sexually harassed in
church. [22]
- Although the actual extent of the
problem is unknown, the significance of clergy sexual abuse is
acknowledged by the denominational leaders of all Christian
churches. [23]
Unfortunately, for those victims of
sexual harassment who did choose to come forward, the results were
devastating. In her 1992 address at the first national conference
sponsored by The Linkup (Victims of Sexual Abuse), president Jeanne
Miller stated that of the 3,000 persons who had contacted The
Linkup, virtually everyone had gone to their church first for
pastoral support and resolution. Rather than help, they were
further punished for breaking silence. Examples of abuse by church
hierarchy for reporting clergy sexual abuse have included: requiring
people to confess their victimization as sin, excommunication,
firing from church employment and threat of slander suits.
[24]
Certainly no one is ignorant of recent revelations by the news media
that numerous Catholic priests and Christian ministers have been
charged with sexual misconduct and pedophilia. The Roman Catholic
Church was hit by a series of allegations, many substantiated,
concerning sexual abuse of children under the legal age of consent
by priests, nuns and people employed by the Church. Well-publicized
charges that the Church in some instances deliberately covered up
such crimes have fueled criticism of the institution and its
leadership. While not every allegation stood up to scrutiny, an
extremely large percentage did, resulting in apologies and
restitution by the Church and the criminal prosecution of some of
those who engaged in the acts." [25]
The Rev. Charles Fiore, a Catholic priest for 42 years, says "The
problem is not clerical pedophilia, but homosexuality." More than
90 percent of the cases Fiore observed, "involve the clerical
molestation of teen-age young men." In reporting clerical abuse,"
Fiore says, "the grand taboo in U. S. Culture is to focus on
homosexuality." [26]
Others have confirmed Fiore's allegations. "With the skill and
determination of a modern-day Houdini, the mainstream media has been
struggling to escape what appears to be an inescapable conclusion
from the national scandal of sexual abuse among Catholic priests.
Sadly, those chains just won't come off, but with enough
misdirection, maybe we won't notice they are there. Maybe we'll
overlook the inescapable conclusion that the Boy Scouts of
America were right. They have been vindicated in their cautious
policies that make it difficult for gay men to serve as respected
leaders of young boys and young men. Based on what we now know about
the scandal with priests, the concern that some homosexual men might
seek access to young victims has been entirely borne out with tragic
experience." [27]
Christian Apologeticists Bob and Gretchen Passantino wrote: --
"When the Church allows compromised Christian leaders to explain
away sin, compromise truth, and sin with impunity, we exchange truth
for lies. We become no better than idolaters, people whose credulous
adoration of compromised leaders fulfill what Paul calls exchanging
"the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal
man . . . exchang[ing] the truth of God for a lie" (Rom. 1:22,
25)...Unfortunately, although most Christians sincerely want truth
and want to follow biblical ethics, we too often listen to such lies
from our leadership and instead of denouncing sin and demanding
accountability, we parrot excuses like those given here and allow
compromised leaders to continue in leadership" [28]
Beyond The Pulpit
Multiple surveys in recent years have indicated that between
one-third and two-thirds of Christian men have some level of involvement
with pornography. In August 2000 Christianity Today surveyed its
readership and 36% of laymen responding have visited such sites "a few
times" in the past year. [29]
In 1995, psychologist Patrick Means, with
Prodigal International ministries, surveyed 350 men from twelve
denominations. In his study, 64% struggle with sexual addiction or
sexual compulsion including, but not limited to use of pornography,
compulsive masturbation, or other secret sexual activity.
[30]
The Hart Report, by Fuller Theological
Seminary's Dr. Archibald Hart, reports on a 1994 confidential survey of
600 Christian men. One in six Christian married men use pornography to
stimulate themselves to masturbate. He further reported that 96% of
Christian males under the age of 20 masturbate regularly, and 61% of all
Christian men masturbate regularly. [31]
Dr. Cheryl Taylor, whose statistics are
quoted elsewhere in this article, says "the Church today exists in a
sexually saturated society. Within the space of one generation, America
has moved from Leave It To Beaver to Sex In The City, or, more recently,
Sex in Cyberspace. Unfortunately, this changing morality is sweeping
through the Church as well. The statistics are staggering. Internet
pornography is a definite reality of American society. And the problem
exists on both sides of the Church's doors...and pulpits. Internet
pornography consumption is a growing concern for ministers, whether for
themselves personally, or for those they love." [32]
The statistics concerning pornographic
material on the Internet are shocking. Dr. Robert Weiss of the Sexual
Recovery Institute in Los Angeles, California, estimated about 60
percent of all Web site visits are sexual in nature, and "sex" is the
most searched-for topic on the Internet.[33] In a
September 1999 study in the Journal of Cyberpsychology and Behavior,
psychologist Dana Putnam reported that there are about 300,000
sex-related Web sites on the Internet.[34] Yet,
perhaps even more frightening than the amount of pornographic websites,
is its accessibility to people of all ages.
According to the National Coalition for
the Protection of Children and Families (NCPCF), computer
users—including children—can download "soft-core nudity, hard-core sex
acts, bestiality, bondage and domination, sadomasochism (including
actual torture and mutilation of women for sexual pleasure),
scatological acts (defecating and urinating on men or women for sexual
pleasure), and child pornography. Types of textual pornography include
detailed stories on the rape, mutilation and torture of women, sexual
abuse of children and graphic incest."[35]
In 1998, The San Jose Marital and
Sexuality Center and MSNBC.com conducted a sexual addiction survey of
Internet users. The researchers found that of the 9,265 users surveyed,
almost 80 percent used their home computers for sexual purposes. In
addition, one percent of respondents could be classified as cybersex
compulsives (used the Internet for sexual purposes for 11 or more hours
per week).[36] The following are more results from the
survey.
- 7 of 10 participants in survey
keep online sexual activities a secret
- 1 in 5 men and 1 in 8 women use
computers at work to access sexual material
- 6 times as many men engage in
online sexual pursuits as women
In addition, the study suggested that as
many as 17 percent of respondents that were not at risk before the
Internet may now be vulnerable to sex addiction that interferes with
their daily lives.[37] Sexual addiction is a growing
problem in our society. Explicit X-rated porn that once was available
only in sleazy side street shops is as easy to get on a PC as ordering
pizza.[38]
Sexual Immorality Has Risen to the Highest Office
Although the United States Constitution establishes three branches of
government, the Executive branch, characterized by the Presidency and
the White House, has long been an extremely visible representation and
focal point of our government. As such, the White House is seen by most
Americans as "the highest office in the land." In 1998, as a result of
issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House
intern, then President William Jefferson Clinton was the second U.S.
president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried
in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him.
He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have
unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president.
Clinton's disgraceful legacy of sexual misconduct, lying under oath, and
using the office of the presidency for his own personal gain was borne
out in his statements to the grand jury, that he had not slept with
Monica Lewinsky and therefore had not committed adultery. What he did
with Monica Lewinsky -- including fellatio, fondling, and phone sex --
was not, by Clinton's narrow definition, sexual activity. "The president
hotly denied both charges, famously declaring: "I did not have sexual
relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky." [39]
Kathy Bernier of In The Light Ministries, offers this observation in a
prelude to an online message; "This message...will be on a subject which
is touched on very briefly but rarely ever dealt with in depth in the
church today. The Bible speaks of it quite frequently and consistently,
and although it is rampant both within and without the Body of Christ,
it seems as though those who are in the leadership positions would
rather bury it than bring it out to the light. The subject is sexual
immorality, a multi-faceted problem which plagues our homes and our
churches from the children on up. It is a cancer that is destroying the
very fabric of our society, having crept into every avenue of life
including the highest office in the land, that of President of the
United States." [40]
Paul Cain is considered to be one of the greatest of the modern day
prophets by many Charismatic Christian leaders and has led a life marked
by a touch of the supernatural from his birth. Having personally
witnessed his prophetic gifts in operation, I can certainly vouch for
the amazing clarity with which he hears the voice of God. He is also no
stranger to controversy and both his office and giftings have been
largely rejected by some elements of conservative Christianity.
Charismatic Christianity, on the other hand, has long recognized Paul's
place in the Prophetic Office, and as such he occupies a strategic
position in the five-fold legacy of leadership gifts that Jesus gave to
the Church. I do not intend to suggest that any kind of leadership
parallel exists between the Office of the United States Presidency and
the Office of the Prophet in which Paul Cain stands. What I am saying,
however, is this -- Bill Clinton's involvement in sexual immorality in
the highest office of the land was simply a culmination of an end state
condition resulting from years of moral decision-making by the citizenry
of this country. His act of impurity in the oval office was simply the
bubbling over of an attitude of society not only obsessed with sex per
se, but along with it a sort of laissez-faire attitude attached that
says 'hey, who's going to know...and if I'm discovered...I'll just lie
about it."
The recent blockbuster trial of entrepreneur and business icon Martha
Stewart culminated in her being found guilty on four counts of
obstructing justice and lying to investigators about a well-timed stock
sale. In a statement posted on her Web site, Stewart said, "Dear
Friends: I am obviously distressed by the jury's verdict but I take
comfort in knowing that I have done nothing wrong.... "[41]
The jury seemed to think the evidence was conclusive enough to convict
her, yet she continued to maintain her innocence. We've tolerated this
attitude in the Presidency. And we've tolerated it in the corporate
world. But now we have a major ministry figure in the church who "has
resisted the process of restoration," and chosen to continue in a
lifestyle of sin. Has our tolerance of improper moral attitudes in
society finally overtaken the church as well?
In like manner, the declining sexual mores of the North American church
have spiraled downward virtually unchecked for many years by a
leadership largely unwilling to admit its reality or to confront it head
on. The addictions, the obsessions, the secret sins, have all finally
worked their way through the pews, across the platform, through the
worship teams and staff, has thoroughly permeated the pastors and
leaders, and have now reared their ugly heads in one of the highest and
most respected offices within the Church, that of the Prophet of God.
This is a warning sign that we, as Christians, can no longer ignore.
This is not an issue that will go away by Christian counseling. This is
a spiritual problem and a big one. Spiritual problems call for
supernatural solutions. In all my years of praying with people I have
never encountered any unwillingness or inability on the part of the Holy
Spirit to totally and completely set a person free from any kind of
sexual bondage -- as long as that person was willing to repent truly
from the heart, and to demonstrate a genuine attitude of repentance
before God. This problem will not go away by wishful thinking; it
certainly will not go away by instituting another program, and it
certainly will not go away by continuing to keep our collective heads
buried in the sand. No, this problem will only go away when our
approach to the problem is toward the achievement of total annihilation
of the forces of darkness as well as complete and total victory and
freedom for the person or persons involved, and in the power of the Holy
Spirit, completely demolishing any spiritual strongholds which may hold
them captive.
George Otis, Jr. warned of
the wrong thinking that Christians are somehow "immune" to these
attacks. In his book Twilight Labyrinth, he wrote, "...many
Christians today hold the view that the enemy is best ignored. I can
still remember the indignity of one Pentecostal man who approached me
after I had concluded a teaching on spiritual warfare. Calling my
accounts of demonic assaults on Christian workers "lurid," he asserted
that Satan can only be empowered by such attention. The best approach
to dealing with the enemy, he insisted, is to dismiss him."
[42]
Dismissing the enemy as merely a poetic symbol of evil and not a real
entity has gotten us to where we are. In his book, Quenching The
Spirit, William DeArteaga said, "Many Christians make an altar call
and/or a born-again commitment but do not follow up with persistent
seeking after holiness. They have only presented the intellect to the
Lord and not brought under conversion the deeper levels of the mind
(heart)." [43] Across the church we have presented a
cheap gospel that requires no godly sorrow or remorse, no repentance, no
sense of guilt for our sins, and of a certainty, no metamorphosis of
character. We have made Christianity a social club as easily joined as
the local Moose lodge. But the very dangerous by-product of this
"Wal-Mart Christianity" has been disdain for and abandonment of the
significance of the spiritual realm. DeArteaga sums it up for us -- "We
have somehow lost hold of the basic principles of life, the good will of
God revealed in the Bible. Men who have better sense than to violate
business or engineering principles, somehow think they can hop into bed
with any man or woman with impunity..."[44]
I have purposely included a host of references with this article in
order to provide convincing proof that we have a very serious problem in
the church. We have substituted man's doctrines' for God's Word --
temporal and ever-changing rules instead of God's immutable and
unchanging standard. When men elevate their rules above God's Word, or
replace God's standards of conduct with their own agendas and programs,
the result is a sliding scale of sin which constantly changes according
to which way the political breeze is blowing. How many more of our
leaders have to bite the dust before we figure out we've got to deal
with these issues head-on?
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Bill Cassada
Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen
©2004 The Lion's Heart Ministries
http://www.thelionsheart.org
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Endnotes
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[1] Special Bulletin by Rick Joyner, Mike Bickle,
and Jack Deere, October 19, 2004, Number 36, Internet
http://www.morningstarministries.org/pages/special_bulletins/oct_2004/SB36_Oct_19.html
[2] Gardner, The New Age, p232; quoted in Sex
In The Evangelical World, Paul N. Tobin, Internet, 2000
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/sexevangelist.html
[3] Miles, Don't Call Me Brother; p248, quoted in
Sex In The Evangelical World, Paul N. Tobin, Internet, 2000
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/sexevangelist.html
[4] Paul N. Tobin, Sex In The Evangelical World,
Internet, 2000 [http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/sexevangelist.html
[5] Article, TV evangelist quits over sex scandal,
Internet February 21, 1988
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2565000/2565197.stm
[6] News Brief, Jesse Jackson Admits Extramarital
Affair, Charisma Now, January 18, 2001 edition, Internet, [http://www.charismanow.com/a.php?ArticleID=2793
[7] Article, Audit Jesse Jackson and his
Rainbow-PUSH "Charities", Jesse Jackson Should Come Clean,
Internet, 10/21/04
http://www.fraudfactor.com
[8] News Brief, Kevin Prosch Restored to Ministry,
Charisma News Service, April 18, 2002 edition, Internet, [http://www.charismanow.com/a.php?ArticleID=5845
[9] Lead Story, Celebrated Florida Revival Church
Rocked By Pastor Sex Scandal, Charisma Now, June 14, 2000 edition,
Internet [http://www.charismanow.com/a.php?ArticleID=2011
[10] News Brief, Roberts Liardon Steps Down From
Over "Moral Failure", Charisma News Service, December 21, 2001
edition
http://www.charismanow.com/a.php?ArticleID=2362
[11] lyrics from the song "Ya Got Trouble," from the
musical The Music Man which opened at the Majestic Theatre on
December 19, 1957 with Robert Preston, who reprised his role in the 1962
film version.
[12] Lynn Vincent, Article "Breaking Faith," The
Linkup - Survivors of Clergy Abuse, Internet
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[13] Ibid
[14] Ibid
[15] Ibid
[16] Richard A. Blackmon, unpublished Ph.D.
dissertation (1984). The Hazards of Ministry, Fuller Theological
Seminary, Pasadena, CA. quoted by Frances Park, article Cease Sexual
Abuse, originally published in the Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis
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[17] Christianity Today, Leadership survey, Dec 2001;
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[18] Christianity Today, March 5, 2001, pp 44-45
[19] Pastors and Internet Pornography, Leadership,
Winter, 2001, p89
[20] Focus On The Family's Web site Pure Intimacy,
December 2000, Internet
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[21] Pastor's Forum Poll, on the Saddleback Ministries
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[22] Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic
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[23] Elizabeth Stellas, "Training Trainers One Year
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[24] Jason Berry (1992) Lead Us Not Into Temptation:
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[25] Roman Catholic Church sex abuse Scandal, Internet,
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[26] Toby Westerman, 'Gay' Culture in Catholic
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pedophilia, Internet
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[27] Jeff Lindsay, Study of Catholic Priests and
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[28] Bob and Gretchen Passantino, Article, Truth and
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Internet
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[29] Cheryl Taylor, D. Min., D. Min. advisor,
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[30] Patrick Means, Men's Secret Wars, Grand
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[31] Archibald D. Hart, The Sexual Man, Waco,
TX, Word Publishing, 1994, p.95 and 119
[32] Cheryl Taylor, D. Min., D. Min. advisor,
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[33] Jim Dyar, "Cyberporn held responsible for
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A2.; quoted by Catherina Hurlburt and Marian Wallace, in Pornography
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[34] Ed Edelson, "Fleeting Thrills or Cybersex
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[35]"Children, Pornography and Cyberspace: The
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Online Pornography: More Than Just Dirty Pictures, Stanford
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[37] Cyber-porn taking a toll: Study finds
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[38] Kenneth Maxwell. A Sexual Odyssey: From
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[40] Kathy Bernier, Article, "Go and Sin No More,"
Into The Light Ministries, Internet,
http://www.intothelight.org/adultery.htm
[41] Special Report, Stewart convicted on all
charges, CNNMoney, March 5, 2004, Internet,
http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/05/news/companies/martha_verdict
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[43] William DeArteaga, Quenching The Spirit,
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[44] Ibid p. 197
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