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Oklahoma Megachurch Founder Admits Infidelity, Resigns
Charisma News ^ | 5/2/2014 | Gina Meeks

Posted on 05/02/2014 6:08:20 PM PDT by Gamecock

The Rev. Mark Crow, founder of the multisite Victory Church in Oklahoma, resigned Tuesday “after confessing to marital unfaithfulness,” said Executive Pastor Dale Swanson in a statement.

“The Victory Church family and staff are praying for Mark, that the same grace we all experience and draw comfort from in our own spiritual journey, will be ever present in Mark’s transition to healing and wholeness,” Swanson continued.

Crow, a televangelist who is well-known because of his connection to Oral Roberts University, founded Victory Church with his wife, Jennifer, in 1994.

“Mark will be focusing his full attention on his personal relationship with God, and beginning the process of bringing healing to the fractured relationships in his life and family. Victory Church is fully committed to providing the counselors and ministers who will guide him through the process of reconciliation with God, and ensuring the best possible outcome for this next season in his life,” Swanson added.

The multisite church draws more than 8,000 people each weekend.


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KEYWORDS: megachurch; pastor; ybpdln
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To: sagar

Sometimes a less than perfect marriage is better than no marriage.


21 posted on 05/02/2014 7:27:22 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

22 posted on 05/02/2014 7:27:41 PM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: CWW

If the church would just let these guys get married......what? Oh- not Catholic? Uh, never mind!
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So you think adultery between adults of the opposite sex is analagous to priests RAPING LITTLE BOYS under their control AND BISHOPS, CARDINALS, AND POPES covering it up?????!!!!!!!!!


23 posted on 05/02/2014 7:42:22 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“Sometimes a less than perfect marriage is better than no marriage.”

Husband leaving the toilet seat open or wife over shooping is a less than perfect marriage.

Husband philandering or wife sleeping around is not a marriage at all. It is a fraud.


24 posted on 05/02/2014 7:43:57 PM PDT by sagar
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To: Gamecock

I give him credit for resigning. Now let’s see if he goes through repentance and a process of restoration...


25 posted on 05/02/2014 7:45:39 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: NELSON111



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27 posted on 05/02/2014 7:54:05 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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To: Gamecock

I have just never grasped how any affair can feel so good that a man would blow up his family, destroy his career, and distress thousands of people for it.


28 posted on 05/02/2014 8:07:54 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: Tax-chick
But seriously, see how this allows for wiping out a marriage and allowing “Biblical” remarriage? You were never married, if he cheated.

That's a very smart observation. Thanks for pointing that out.

29 posted on 05/02/2014 8:10:29 PM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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To: driftdiver
You arent even worth the time.

I'm just gonna go with what you said.

30 posted on 05/02/2014 8:19:05 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Gamecock
Seems like there's been a lot of this lately, was there some sort of pheromone attack on mega-Church guys or what?
31 posted on 05/02/2014 8:32:24 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: sagar

Not a little on the judgemental side are you?


32 posted on 05/02/2014 8:36:03 PM PDT by WILLIALAL
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To: rovenstinez

I assume that is in Tulsa, the church I found was in OKC. The Tulsa may be a branch of the OKC church but I don’t know.


33 posted on 05/02/2014 9:46:29 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Gamecock

bookmark


34 posted on 05/02/2014 9:56:26 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I am sure he had to resign and was caught.


35 posted on 05/03/2014 12:14:36 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Rashputin
‘Mega’ churches are frauds, they are just large entertainment centers.
36 posted on 05/03/2014 12:16:10 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: ottbmare
I have just never grasped how any affair can feel so good that a man would blow up his family, destroy his career, and distress thousands of people for it.

The devil has his ways of making evil acts attractive.

37 posted on 05/03/2014 12:17:04 AM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: fortheDeclaration
I won't argue with that a bit, it's just that for an awful lot of people it's the only exposure to anything even pretending to be Christian they get in our increasingly Godless society. Most such churches at the very least mention Christ being our Savior now and again although they preach "go along to get along" and not Christ and Him crucified as their real message. They're a money machine "Church of Nice" providing a theoretically Christian alternative to whatever society makes popular from Anorexic Babes to Queers for Christ but they're careful about their facade and maintain a Christian veneer that requires them to at least touch base with some traditional Christian beliefs.

So, for a very large number of people in this country the mega-church leaders are the benchmark of Christian behavior and morality for them. When they go bad, a lot of people start to lose what little faith in Christianity they have and go from very little exposure to anything like Christianity to no exposure to Christianity.

God really does work in mysterious ways, though. I've known several people who started their Christian journey in a mega-church and didn't think the way things were explained fit together very well. So, they began to study on their own and eventually saw the same thing, the mega-church is a money making entertainment enterprise and little else.

If there had never been the attraction to comfy theater seating, "Christian Rock" as it's called, and coffee served during the show, they say they'd have gone some other route. Eastern religion, no religion, different things.

At any rate, I totally agree. In fact, one of my favorite YouTube goodies makes that very point.

38 posted on 05/03/2014 1:41:17 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

What is that in Proverbs, “It is better to live in the corner of the attic alone than in a mansion with a nagging spouse”


39 posted on 05/03/2014 2:22:49 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: sagar

Only 3rd marriages have divorce rates that high.


40 posted on 05/03/2014 2:29:21 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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