They caught the scamming Pastors slipping again.
When will people learn to stop giving these Pastors your money? If they aren’t spending it on Gucci, they are trying to fly out IG Models.
The Village Church Lead Pastor announced Sunday during a church service that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from preaching and teaching after he revealed that he had an inappropriate online relationship with a woman.
During his few minutes on stage, Chandler said that the relationship was not s*xual or romantic, but that the church eldership was concerned about the frequency and familiarity of the messages between he and the woman on Instagram.
Chandler said he was in total agreement with the elders’ decision to have him step aside for a while, but that he is “the lead pastor of this church, and I plan on being the lead pastor at this church for the next 20 years.”
“Several months ago, a woman approached me outside in the foyer. She had some concerns for how I was messaging on Instagram with a friend of hers. I didn’t think I had done anything wrong. My wife knew about it, her husband knew about it. But there were a couple of things that were disorienting in the things she said to me. I immediately came to the elder leader board and told them this is what this person just told me, and then I went home and I told Lauren this was what was said to me.
“They looked into the relationship with me and this other woman, and they had some concerns. They were not that our messaging was romantic or sexual. It was that our conversations were unguarded and unwise. I don’t ever want there to be secrets between you and me.
“The concerns were about frequency and familiarity. We believe in brother-sister relationships. Yet there was a frequency that moved past that, and a familiarity that played itself out in coarse and foolish joking, something unbefitting in my position as a lead pastor and elder. I am held to a higher standard and I felt short of that higher standard.
“First of all, I’m really embarrassed. I feel stupid. I feel dumb. I feel like I’m embarrassing my wife and kids, putting a ton of pressure on the staff here. You might be hearing this, you might not even be a Christian, and you might be saying, ‘What the H?’ But the Word of God holds me to a certain standard. And I fell short. I’m apologizing to my family, to you, to everyone involved in this situation.
I am sure he was smashing at the Holiday Inn.
Flip the pages for him coming clean.