Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Why do ministers feel they have to cover up issues within the church?

There are issues ministers bring upon themselves and when confronted with these issues, they deny. Why do ministers feel they have to cover up issues within the church?

Examples:
1.Viewing Pornography on Computers
2.Ministers misusing money from hard working members
3. Gossiping and slandering others from the pulpit
4. Hiding and or hiring other ministers sins from other church's - ministries within their denominations
5. Dismissing members from a church without merit, biblical or by law followings
6. Keeping "secrets" from a church membership that should be made public
7. Using God's tithes / offerings ( being a bad steward) for "non ministerial or personal gains"

There are many other issues to list so.........Let the debates begin.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Sr. Pastor at Madison Street Baptist Church Chad Everson brother Jarrod Everson was caught at his dad's former church in Douglasville Ga. viewing Pornography by the secretary and computer IT guy on his Dad's (Mike Everson) computer!( Jarrod logged into the network on his Dad's PC while he was away from his office ) Now Jarrod said he was “God Called” and moved to his brothers church, and his brother failed to inform the church when he was hired that his brother " the new Education / Children's minister" had been involved in Porn at another ( his Dad’s) church. The guy from the church that confirmed/verified Jarrod's viewings then called the Chairman of the Deacons (Mark) and ask if he or anyone knew anything about Jarrod’s PORN issue. Turns out the SR Pastor Chad Everson had not exposed this to anyone at the church ( no Deacons, Personnel Committees, no Members, family? etc.,) and so the covered up story began to explode in June 2007. In short the issue was denied by leadership, deacons, staff etc., so there was a detailed description of how it happened exposing the situation as it happened at both church's. But there have been and still are discussions/issues at this church by leadership, staff, and deacons of this church and so the beat goes on...

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Anonymous said...

This has been an ongoing problem at Madison Street. You would think the pastor would want to get everything out in the open to clear things up. Chad has not done this, and made things more suspicious by not answering questions. My family left the church because of this. When a pastor won't let anybody look at a church's financial records, you have to wonder what is going on. It's funny, things seem to start falling apart just after the new addition to the church was made. You have to wonder if this was God trying to tell Chad that the addition was the wrong direction for the church?

Anonymous said...

Money, it is all about money for this bunch anyway. I am talking about the whole "group" including their so called "evangelist". They scratch each others back by having "revival's and or conferences", pull each others into "paying gigs" and pull the wool over congregations everywhere.$10,000 offerings for 3 days work - ridiculous. And then they tell you "if you do not give, you are lost". These guys take the attitude of rock stars.

Anonymous said...

Just like his daddy Mike Everson did to Pray's Mill, Like Father Like sons.