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Leaders, Religious: Duties of
Recently Leadership Magazine commissioned a poll of a thousand pastors. The pastors indicated that 12 percent of them
had committed adultery while in the ministry -- one out of eight pastors! -- and 23 percent had done something they considered
sexually inappropriate. Christianity Today surveyed a thousand of its subscribers who were not pastors and found the figure
to be nearly double, with 23 percent saying they had had extramarital intercourse and 45 percent indicating they had done
something they themselves deemed sexually inappropriate. One in four Christian men are unfaithful, and nearly one half have
behaved unbecomingly! Shocking statistics! Especially when we remember that Christianity Today readers tend to be college-educated
church leaders, elders, deacons, Sunday school superintendents, and teachers.
R. Kent Hughes
Disciplines of a Godly Man
(1991)
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