
Does My Sexual Past Disqualify Me from Pastoring?
Ask Pastor John
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The Importance of Fornication in Ministry
Paul's example in his past life and present ministry with Christ's blessing is really quite astonishing because of the actual use he himself makes of that example. Paul was complicit in Stephen's murder in Acts 7. Then as he became a ringleader in the efforts to stamp out Christianity with imprisonments and murders, it got even worse and more intentional. He asks on the basis of 1 Corinthians 6, 16 whether in fact fornication is a unique kind of sin that may exclude from ministry when in fact murder may not.
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