Comments on: The Return of Ted Haggard /blog/index.php/2010/06/15/the-return-of-ted-haggard/ News and happenings from around Gospel.com Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Don /blog/index.php/2010/06/15/the-return-of-ted-haggard/comment-page-1/#comment-51334 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:29:15 +0000 /blog/?p=4984#comment-51334 through Ted’s words and interviews…
Discern it and perceive it through the lens of God’ Word…HE IS DECEIVED…unless God opens his eyes to see.

]]> By: R.V. Windfield /blog/index.php/2010/06/15/the-return-of-ted-haggard/comment-page-1/#comment-47512 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:17:33 +0000 /blog/?p=4984#comment-47512 The question should be a bit broader. For one, what is the upshot to his return? His position is he can help those in similar situations since he has experienced them first hand. But his own testimony can be a major hindrance to the credibility of the solution.

Einstein said it is impossible to solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

Fallen ministers that have bounced back are rare at best. Especially in this case. Since these are ministers of God it seems forgiving and restoring are a given. However being “a leader” is not a guarantee or a developing vacuum for the Body of Christ.

What Haggard did for the most part is not as worrisome as to why he did what he did. In order for you to go the direction he went you would have to be fairly ignorant of the Kingdom and how it functions.

In my opinion it is a display of what happens when people get saved from something and not into anything. We are saved from Hell but we are never saved into the Kingdom. You can not remove darkness or diminish its effect. Darkness can only be displaced. The more light you have the less darkness surrounds you.

The lack of light is the real question here. The other question is does repentance, or forgiveness or restoration generate the light needed to displace darkness or only enable the person to start again in letting that light dominate their life. Renewing the spirit God can do. Renewing the mind a man must do.

As a man thinks so is he. If you see and here a man long enough you will be able to understand what he thinks. I believe in general Mr. Haggard is not ready for prime time. The need to start having a church again just does not seem contrite enough. It is more why than how.

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