News, Ky. Church Ordains Registered Sex Offender. (Sodom, scripture, worship)
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A church in Louisville, Ky., ordained a registered sex offender Sunday despite protests from the some in the surrounding community.
Prior to joining The City of Refuge Worship Center, where he was ordained this past Sunday morning, Mark Hourigan had been charged with sodomy, sexual abuse and intimidation of an 11-year-old boy back in 1998.
People in here will say well God changed him and forgave him so we should to but it has nothing to do with forgiveness for all I know he could be a changed man giving God all the glory but that's not the point. We must follow scripture dealing with pastors and the apostle Paul was very clear about decons, elders, overseerers
(1 Timothy 3:1-2) 1It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Last edited by Fundamentalist; 09-16-2009 at 07:07 AM..
A church in Louisville, Ky., ordained a registered sex offender Sunday despite protests from the some in the surrounding community.
Prior to joining The City of Refuge Worship Center, where he was ordained this past Sunday morning, Mark Hourigan had been charged with sodomy, sexual abuse and intimidation of an 11-year-old boy back in 1998.
There is nothing wrong with an institutional church, it's the ones that don't follow scripture. Would you say?
I spent 40 years in religion and found that if you go into one and conform to the will of leadership, you will be fine. You will be spiritually dead, but you will fair well in these places.
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