This weekend my wife and I were out with a good friend from our church who is home for the summer. She passed along some information that really set me back for a bit (though not as much as I would have expected - maybe I'm becoming desensisitized?).
Our church is pretty small, and while I have discovered (the hard way) that there are gossip lines in our church, stuff is generally held pretty close to the chest.
Turns out that our former youth pastor, married with 2 young kids, who was very much loved and admired by our youth (the program grew explosiviley under him), is in an affair. He left our church earlier this year, with very little explanation, but recently his wife started coming back without him.
While I don't know (and don't want to know) the details, or even if it's 100% accurate (observable facts certainly fit the story), it was very sad to hear that. To see someone who appeared to love God and his wife and kids so much fall into something like this just boggles my mind. I mean, this is the same man who taught the church one Sunday out of 1 Corinthians 13, focusing on the aspects of love. In fact, I still remember his "advice" - replace the word love with your name in that chapter, and you'll see how you are supposed to act.
Even having lived through an affair in my own marriage, I still find it hard to grasp how people (who should, IMO, know better) can fall into this, even though it happens all the time.
Very saddening. I hope his wife has good Christian women that are rallying around her.
To steal from Lemonman...I just don't get it. I didn't get it when it happened to me, and I don't get it when it happens to others.
