Matt Chandler and inappropriate online behavior.

Bob Jones V said:
Celebrity pastor who announces his own discipline. What a joke.
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Sounds to me like a pastor openly making a confession of sin after being confronted with it.

"If he listens to you, you have gained your brother" (Matt. 18:15). What do you expect should happen at this stage? Another pastor denounces Chandler publicly while security frog-marches him to the main door?
 
Bob Jones V said:
Celebrity pastor who announces his own discipline. What a joke.
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I think his elders made this decision. I'm a member of the SBC, as is Chandler. He may have hinted at what his discipline might be, but, he's not the one who could enforce it. Why all the antagonism, Bob? Get a life and grow up.
 
Bob Jones V said:
I do not think that a man who has had an inappropriate relationship with another woman should be telling anyone anything. He should be humble, contrite, and he confessed to it months before it became public. So this was not a confession. This was damage control and image control.
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Are you speaking of an intimate relationship, or something less involved? It's FAR FROM damage control or image control. Again, stop trying to make yourself the Holy Spirit or the only arbiter of the truth. You know very little of what's going on except what you read if you can read and comprehend at all. Did you read more than one source, or did you just jump on the bandwagon to bash another minister?? Grow up.
 
OK, so this whole Matt Chandler situation is news to me. I hadn’t even heard of the guy before reading the article. I guess I live under a rock. That being said, if his “relationship” with this woman wasn’t sexual or even romantic, I don’t understand why there’s an issue. Unlike Joe and maybe some of the other posters here, I’ve never been in the ministry or went to Bible college, so I’m sure I’m just not understanding. What am I missing here?
 
Huk said:
OK, so this whole Matt Chandler situation is news to me. I hadn’t even heard of the guy before reading the article. I guess I live under a rock. That being said, if his “relationship” with this woman wasn’t sexual or even romantic, I don’t understand why there’s an issue. Unlike Joe and maybe some of the other posters here, I’ve never been in the ministry or went to Bible college, so I’m sure I’m just not understanding. What am I missing here?
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You’re not missing anything as far as I know. I personally believe there’s much more to the story. Either way may the Lord give them all wisdom and contrite hearts.
 
Bob Jones V said:
They had Social Media rules for Elders. He violated those. Also, an emotional affair is more than just joking with someone. This had gone on for a long time. The church is huge and has mega influence.
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An “emotional affair”…that’s not the way I interpreted the story. Both spouses were aware of the communication and it wasn’t romantic in nature. I do think a pastor should be mature about his communications, and probably not be constantly sending stupid joke texts to his members, but that’s more of a maturity thing than anything else.
 
Bob Jones V said:
Average Joe needs a chill pill. I have read dozens of articles about this. I have watched the confession. I have read what many people close to the situation have said. This man doe snot need a standing ovation. He is married. He is a pastor. He was emotionally involved with a woman who is not his wife. He is disqualified from leading.
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And you need to stick your head back up your bottom where it was when you came here.
 
It didn't take very long for Matt Chandler to be restored and rehabilitated from whatever he may or may not have done wrong. Looks like he's coming back:

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Matt Chandler hints at return to pulpit ‘soon’ after taking leave over inappropriate messages

Two months after taking a leave of absence from his role as teaching pastor at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, due to inappropriate messaging with a woman who is not his wife, Matt ...
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"Two months after taking a leave of absence from his role as teaching pastor at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, due to inappropriate messaging with a woman who is not his wife, Matt Chandler hinted that he will likely return to the pulpit 'soon' and is 'eager to return.'. . . While they did not immediately respond to calls from The Christian Post Thursday, The Village Church elders confirmed in a recent statement to The Roys Report that they're 'encouraged' by Chandler's posture since his leave of absence and are planning for his return to preaching."
 
It wasn't long enough, I can tell you that now. There's no way he could have been "restored" in that amount of time.
 
Looks like Village Church is not going to be as harsh on Matt Chandler as they were on church member Karen Hinkley who dumped her husband for being a pedophile. The pedophile husband was not threatened with church discipline, but Karen Hinkley was, although the church later backed down and apologized:


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Man confesses to child porn; church disciplines his wife – Baptist News Global

By Bob Allen A Dallas megachurch has apologized to a wife subjected to church discipline for leaving her husband without permission after learning he is a pedophile. Elders of The Village Church, a multisite Southern Baptist congregation led by Acts...
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"A Dallas megachurch has apologized to a wife subjected to church discipline for leaving her husband without permission after learning he is a pedophile.

"Elders of The Village Church, a multisite Southern Baptist congregation led by Acts 29 president Matt Chandler, sent a letter to members posted online by blogger Matthew Paul Turner admitting to mishandling of a disciplinary process instituted against former member Karen Hinkley.

"Earlier, church leaders said Hinkley violated her membership covenant with Village Church by having her legal marriage to Jordan Root annulled without seeking reconciliation after he confessed to her that he is sexually stimulated by little children and had viewed child pornography throughout their courtship and marriage. Root was not disciplined because he repented and entered counseling, but his access to children was restricted."
 
A little too little too late. Mega churches suck!
 
Well, that didn't take very long. Matt Chandler is back in the pulpit. "The Village Church congregation gave a standing ovation to their pastor, Matt Chandler, who returned to the pulpit Sunday, more than three months after taking a leave of absence from his role as teaching pastor due to inappropriate social media messages with a woman who is not his wife. As he took the stage in his megachurch in Flower Mound, Texas, the members greeted him with cheers and whistles, and a congregant yelled out, “We love you, Matt!” The New York Times reported."


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Matt Chandler receives standing ovation upon return to the pulpit

The Village Church congregation gave a standing ovation to their pastor, Matt Chandler, who returned to the pulpit Sunday, more than three months after taking a leave of absence from his role as
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illinoisguy said:
Well, that didn't take very long. Matt Chandler is back in the pulpit. "The Village Church congregation gave a standing ovation to their pastor, Matt Chandler, who returned to the pulpit Sunday, more than three months after taking a leave of absence from his role as teaching pastor due to inappropriate social media messages with a woman who is not his wife. As he took the stage in his megachurch in Flower Mound, Texas, the members greeted him with cheers and whistles, and a congregant yelled out, “We love you, Matt!” The New York Times reported."


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Matt Chandler receives standing ovation upon return to the pulpit

The Village Church congregation gave a standing ovation to their pastor, Matt Chandler, who returned to the pulpit Sunday, more than three months after taking a leave of absence from his role as
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More man-worship. UGH! Some of us had enough of this kind of stuff when we were in the IFB, and even in some SBC churches. Chandler should have faced at least a one-year, highly supervised discipline before ever being allowed back in a pulpit.
 
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