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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
I love you too. 
And regarding the fornicating pastor, I did not date him because I did not want to be in agreement with his sin -- having sex with him when I know what the Bible says, etc. We also discussed Paul, Eclipse.
Eclipse, I've heard similar to what that article said.
I wonder how many pastors this Sunday will admit their struggles, not just porn, but anything they have struggled with.
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Awww......
Not just for you CT, but here is the scripture I was thinking about. It's from Romans 7. Gotta love Biblegateway.
As usual, I jacked it all up: (NIV version for ease of reading)
15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God's law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
I know some pastors who will discuss what they have been delivered from (have heard pastors speak on drugs, fornication, spousal abuse,etc) but most will not speak on current sins, which I guess I kinda understand, that probably needs to be handled in a more discreet setting.
I do recall hearing a pastor (Jeffery Johnson from Eastern Star in Indy) talk about him and his wife fussing on the way to church one morning (and he was wrong as 2 left shoes!) and I wanted to get up and dance the holy dance! I thought me and my husband had to be the only Christians in America who did that! His real-ness meant a lot to me. He also said "it ain't right, but it's real". 'Course, he wasn't at his home church, but I have heard he does the same thing there too.