He's not a idiot. He did the right thing and it's far harder to stand in front of a whole congregation and admit your sin than to do it behind closed doors so no one else knows.
Private confession is the easy way out.
If his heart was that bad, something else would have got him anyway.
Besides, if God wanted him around, he would have lived.
Publically embarrassing and humiliating his wife is the right thing to do?
The article said he confessed to his wife. The next step is to tender his resignation for "personal reasons", not make her look like a fool in front the rest of the community.
It was weak for him to go before the congregation with his personal failing. He should have just resigned if he was that upset over it.
If I was sitting in a pew I would have told him to shut up and then walked out. I don’t want to hear this kind of stuff, especially from a preacher.
What does he think that everyone should be shocked because he is a human?
The caveat is that I don’t know enough of what happened or his intentions so you can take my comment as general.
But I do disagree with you on what is weak and what is strong in this situation. With due respect to your position, my view is the weak move was to go before the congregation with it.
People in leadership positions in the church have a much higher standard to uphold. No doubt, other congregants knew about this affair and he was doing the right thing by making a public confession AFTER he had already confessed to his wife and forsaken the other woman. Hopefully, he was not presuming he could just continue being the pastor. It was a PUBLIC sin and it needed PUBLIC confession in order to set an example before the assembly. Don’t know why God took his life - could have been any number of reasons. We can look at Ananias and Sapphira as told in Acts 5, who said they sold a parcel of land and gave all the money to the group when they were lying. God slew them, it was said, “You have not lied just to human beings but to God.” (v. 4).