There are a lot of pastors that give the good ones a really bad name.
Some stories from churchgoers can get pretty wild.
Insert former Cub Ben Zobrist who took a leave of absence from the team in 2019 after his wife Julianna was dealing with depression and anxiety and was advised to give her some space by their pastor Bryon Yawn.
He is currently suing his former pastor and the reason why is pretty crazy per USA Today.
“About a year after he took a leave of absence from the Chicago Cubs, Ben Zobrist discovered his wife was having an affair with their minister, according to court documents.
The minister was also accused of defrauding Zobrist’s charity foundation, for which he worked.
The 40-year-old Zobrist made those allegations in a lawsuit filed on his behalf in May in a Tennessee circuit court. Last week, the Journal Star obtained a copy of the lawsuit.
Now retired after a 13-year major-league baseball career, Zobrist is seeking $6 million in damages from Byron Yawn, the CEO of Forrest Crain & Co., a Nashville-area business-consulting firm.
Yawn also is a former pastor and elder at Community Bible Church in Nashville. In that position, Yawn met Zobrist and his wife, the former Julianna Gilmore, about 16 years ago. The Zobrists, who were married in 2005, have three children.”
Yawn’s wife is the one who first found out about the affair and then told Ben and he’s looking for $6 million in damages.
Really crazy story.
It is, even more, crazier when you see how the Pastor manipulated the situation.
Not to mention how much money Zobrist lost because of it.
Yawn had begun talking daily with Julianna through burner phones in 2018, and a sexual relationship between the two began a year later. Ben Zobrist took a four-month leave from the Cubs in 2019 to address his marital problems after Robin Yawn, pastor Yawn’s wife, informed Zobrist about what she believed to be only an emotional relationship between their spouses in May 2019. During that span of time, he lost $8 million in income, according to the lawsuit.
Yawn provided the couple with marriage counseling in 2019 and counseled the 2016 World Series MVP on dealing with his anxiety and depression.
It was not until June 2020 when Zobrist learned that his wife had a sexual relationship with their minister, according to the lawsuit.
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