The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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Christ victor over Satan if He picked and chose the<br />
temptations He wanted to face, or if He took some<br />
deluxe "equipment" that kept Him above the battlelevel<br />
where we live? How brave is a soldier with a<br />
bullet-proof vest in comparison to one who has<br />
none? How could Christ be either our Substitute or<br />
Example if He had special exemptions?<br />
In Christianity Today Carol Anderson Streeter<br />
declares that adultery "is as hurtful as murder"<br />
(April 3,1995, p. 38). If that is true, so is<br />
fornication—it's only the prelude to the same<br />
murderous sin. In the same issue is a forceful<br />
article by R. Kent Hodges and John H. Armstrong<br />
pleading that although in church administration<br />
"the impulse to link forgiveness with restoration to<br />
ministry remains strong," church leaders who<br />
commit adultery should not be readmitted "to<br />
pastoral leadership." But this moral abomination<br />
that Christianity Today decries is now knocking for<br />
entrance to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.<br />
What could children and youth think when they<br />
know that their spiritual "leader" in the pulpit is<br />
guilty of moral turpitude?<br />
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