Post by Jason_Coates on Sept 16, 2006 9:07:02 GMT
In 1998 I can remember handing a campus pastor a book on the New Apostolic Reformation churches by C Peter Wager. In it was a chapter by Paul Daniel the President of His People Church. In my introduction I explained our church to be a good one. A church of integrity and noble ambitions. Little did I know that Paul Daniel was an unrepentant adulterer, manipulator and liar and that some of his henchmen were in on the lie.
This morning I stumbled on a website blog where a minister highlights some of the difficulties around adultery for the average Christian Joe. A few points jump out at me:
Despite a lot attention to the “seductress” in Proverbs, the problem in adultery is the married man, the condition of his marriage and the lies he tells himself.
One of the marks of male juvenility, and likely eventual downfall, is the tendency to put the emphasis on flirtatious women, scantily clad women, women with cleavage, women who smile at you, women you laugh at your jokes, women who pay attention to you and so forth. I’m not saying this kind of information is all useless, because it’s clearly a kind of common sense warning that anyone ought to heed. It’s just mislocating the problem.
The guy about to commit adultery is a person with a marriage he’s neglected and a wife he’s turning into an excuse to step out on. He is convincing himself he deserves something rather than admitting he is responsible for something. Did I just hurt your feelings? Good.
excerpted from
www.internetmonk.com/archive/man-in-the-shadow-of-adultery#more-686
You see that Paul Daniel was not a man of God. He was boy in a man's body. He was less of a grown up then many of us.
You may ask why does Philip Rosenthal and I go on and on about this? After all Paul Daniel is history as far as the mighty Every Nation Church is concerned.
You see Paul Daniel created a myth about his adultery and fed the lie to people around him including his wife. Paul Daniel was a consumate myth builder of epic proportions. Without God and His Word in our lives everything is just a pale anti-story. I am starting to understand that much of His People and Every Nation Church is a myth.
You just have to read the EN Africa Apostle's response on Factnet to see that the myth continues.
This morning I stumbled on a website blog where a minister highlights some of the difficulties around adultery for the average Christian Joe. A few points jump out at me:
Despite a lot attention to the “seductress” in Proverbs, the problem in adultery is the married man, the condition of his marriage and the lies he tells himself.
One of the marks of male juvenility, and likely eventual downfall, is the tendency to put the emphasis on flirtatious women, scantily clad women, women with cleavage, women who smile at you, women you laugh at your jokes, women who pay attention to you and so forth. I’m not saying this kind of information is all useless, because it’s clearly a kind of common sense warning that anyone ought to heed. It’s just mislocating the problem.
The guy about to commit adultery is a person with a marriage he’s neglected and a wife he’s turning into an excuse to step out on. He is convincing himself he deserves something rather than admitting he is responsible for something. Did I just hurt your feelings? Good.
excerpted from
www.internetmonk.com/archive/man-in-the-shadow-of-adultery#more-686
You see that Paul Daniel was not a man of God. He was boy in a man's body. He was less of a grown up then many of us.
You may ask why does Philip Rosenthal and I go on and on about this? After all Paul Daniel is history as far as the mighty Every Nation Church is concerned.
You see Paul Daniel created a myth about his adultery and fed the lie to people around him including his wife. Paul Daniel was a consumate myth builder of epic proportions. Without God and His Word in our lives everything is just a pale anti-story. I am starting to understand that much of His People and Every Nation Church is a myth.
You just have to read the EN Africa Apostle's response on Factnet to see that the myth continues.