Posted on 01/29/2007 11:17:06 AM PST by SubGeniusX
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - The former male prostitute whose accusations against New Life Church founder Ted Haggard led to Haggard's dismissal as pastor has paid a visit to the megachurch.
Mike Jones, who has a forthcoming book, told The Denver Post that several people shook his hand during the visit Sunday and told him, "God bless you."
"I had read a lot about the church, but there's nothing like seeing it for yourself," Jones told the paper. "It wasn't to rub anyone's face in it by any means. I was wanting to get some perspective, to see where they are coming from, what the magnet is."
Haggard resigned last year as president of the National Association of Evangelicals after Jones alleged Haggard paid him over a three-year period for sex and sometimes took methamphetamine during the encounters.
Haggard then was fired as pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church. He publicly admitted in November to unspecified "sexual immorality."
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I am glad he was treated so well, it would have been hypocritical if they had treated him any other way.
I sincerely hope the young man finds Jesus at that church.
I don't mind a megachurch so long as it doesn't require megacommunion.
Has Haggard shacked up with McGreevey yet?
They treated him well, like the Christians they are. I can't say the same about his behavior, though. And who knows what he's putting into his upcoming book to stir up sales.
Every non-believer is reading this article thinking, "I didn't know you could find 14,000 dupes in one place."
Having said that, the church did treat him properly.
Another deviant who will end up rich. While I being an honest hard worker struggles. How come perverts drug dealers and thugs have all the money.
Maybe I need to become a deviant.
I glad they showed him the love of Christ much more humbly and without a holier than thou attitude than you both seem to be taking ...
Way to be a proper witness for Christ fellas ....
I'm sure his attitude would be right in line with yours ...
Unitl this stuff hit last hall, I had never heard of Ted Haggard and I attend an evangelical, Southern Baptist church.
Ditto. I've attended a Southern Baptist church for the last 20 years, and I was clueless as to Ted Haggard was.
I'm sure his attitude would be right in line with yours ...
I am not exactly the most religious person in the world. I still do not understand why God allows Perverts,thugs, bling bling gansta rappers,etc(ie deviants) to become wealthy and hard working people (like myself struggle from time to time. I am not poor but I could not stop working if I wanted to. I worry about bills getting my kids through a private Christian school education.
Was his name Fred Garvin?
"It wasn't to rub anyone's face in it by any means."
Well, that's a relief.
Farther Along
Words and Music by J.R.Baxter and W.B.Stevens
© 1937 Stamps-Baxter Music
Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long,
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.
Refrain
Farther along we'll know all about it,
Farther along we'll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We'll understand it all by and by.
When death has come and taken our loved ones,
It leaves our home so lonely and drear,
Then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year.
Refrain
Faithful til death, said our loving Master
A few more days to labor and wait,
Toils of the road will then seem as nothing
As we sweep through the beautiful gate.
Refrain
When we see Jesus, coming in glory,
When He comes from His home in the sky,
Then we shall meet Him in that bright mansion,
We'll understand it all by and by.
Refrain
Farther along we'll know all about it,
Farther along we'll understand why;
Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,
We'll understand it all by and by.
I would have treated him exactly as that congregation did. Forgiving him doesn't mean his conduct was anything other than repugnant. You do understand he admitted he went on talk radio to expose the rev in an effort to influence our election, which had a gay marriage proposal on the ballot?
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