6 Responses to “Can You Lead a Double Life?”

1. Marcus French
   August 28th, 2008 @ 12:00 am

   Here’s a link to the story described here: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24242695-662,00.html

2. Glenn
   August 28th, 2008 @ 6:35 pm

   Man… that’s a sad story. Let’s pray that the Lord would restore him – or save him.

3. Ewan
   August 30th, 2008 @ 6:19 pm

   There’s an Australian pastor’s blog here with quite a bit of comment and news on the issue.

   I understand that Michael “G” had received ‘words of knowledge’ from the various big name Australian megachurch leaders to the effect that God was going to heal him of cancer. Well they were inclusively true given that he never had cancer in the first place, but you have to ask, where is the discernment of these leaders?

4. Marcus French
   August 31st, 2008 @ 1:32 pm

   The thing that I find very hard to understand is how it is possible to put up such a face of spirituality when you’re in such blatant sin? I’m not asking this in some sort of “gosh, I’m so pious, I could never be in sin” way. I’m asking this because whenever I go the way of sin, I want nothing to do with God, and generally don’t speak about him in a positive way to others (if I speak of him at all). What could possibly motivate someone to live a double life like this? Can anybody help me out here?

   The only thing I can think of is that he made his living through spiritual ministry, and so simply “not talking about God” was not an option for him. Having never been in full-time ministry myself, can someone enlighten me on this aspect of the situation that I may not understand?

5. Ryan Dube
   September 1st, 2008 @ 8:27 am

   Marcus,

   This is my take on your question: What could possibly motivate someone to live a double life like this?

   Simply put, vanity. When someone is in a position of great authority, they don’t stop and right the wrongs before proceeding; they press on. They convince themselves that they are needed, (by their congregation) to lead the way because they are not big enough to step down for a while and deal with their issues for fear that they might not be able to hold that position of great authority again.

6. Marcus French
   September 1st, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

   Ryan,

   If what you’re saying is correct, does this say anything about how religious institutions are set up?

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