Ministerial Ethics

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Greetings in Jesus Name, 

On 11/8/97 I (Floyd E. Avery) in a moment of confusion wrote:

> I am a male and I like mail pastors, but if God .......

You do know what a MAIL pastor is, don't you? It is like a TV Pastor
for those who don't watch TV. Ok I do know the difference between male
and mail but remember I told you that I am not good with words.

Some of the people who have read my post have assumed that I am easily
hurt. That is not really true. I have learned to "take it on the
chin."  I do hurt badly when I see pastors and saints abuse people. I
see a person possibly loosing their chance to be saved.

I was working late one night when a young nurse came in and ask me if
I would walk with her out to her car. I told her I would, to just give
me a minute to shut the CT down. I could tell she was very nervous and
we began to talk. She told me that she knows that fear is a sin. I ask
her why she thinks that and she said her pastor says it is. She told
me that she was raped and that she feels so dirty. She told me that
she is afraid that she is going to have a nervous breakdown. She went
to talk to her pastor (not mine). He told her that it is wrong to go
to doctors. The pastor called her up in front of the Church and told
them that she had been raped and ask them to pray for her to be
delivered from the sin of fear. I cried and told her to get away from
that man. A sinner did a terrible sin against her and she was made to
feel like a sinner by a sorry excuse of a pastor. 

If you have a good pastor, Pray for him every day, and hold his hands
up. If you have one that is no good, throw him out or if you can't,
leave. Remember, that you are sinning when you watch a pastor abuse
people and you continue to support him.

Christian Love 
Floyd E. Avery
Feavery@prysm.net