When should a pastor be restored after sexual sin?

Michie said:

But Scripture never equates forgiveness with reinstatement to leadership.

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That's the key. Restoration of fellowship. Not restoration back into a trusted leadership position in the Church. They lost that trust.

chevyontheriver said:

That's the key. Restoration of fellowship. Not restoration back into a trusted leadership position in the Church. They lost that trust.

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^This

I came here to say basically the same thing.

To use another example, a member of your church who is part of the team that counts the offerings every week is arrested for shoplifting.

Can he be restored to fellowship?

Can he be restored to being trusted with the weekly offering again?

Two very different questions..

We are all made aware we must forgive, period,
For the one main reason, of not being a vessel
That harbors hate, or we are sinning, however,
Jesus speaks to when we are personally sinned against, only, since we dont have the
Power in us to forgive what is outside of those boundaries, yet we do await for any such sin
Or crime to still be handled such as this example, with this type of crime, its effects
Become burdens the congregation must
Now carry, and the expectations of sound
Judgement to take the proper action of such
A burden to not reflect upon those who are also effected if and when they are forced to
Find any of this information out that indirectly
Effects them, no different then any other trust
Thats been severed, Jesus doesnt expect such a sacred responsibility to be even possible
To be restored, this is the reality of how many times we personally must forgive when compared to where such actions must step in
With regard to the nature of the situation.

We know that outside of ourselves Jesus looks to others in the same way as individuals who
He places personal responsibility dependent of
What it entails within that scope of this example, not relevant to anyone outside the church, except the individual who are free to
Press charges in this act of someone from the church or who represents the church.

Anywhere oaths are taken God knows each
Of those powers, no different then the powers he gave us to forgive sins against us, personally, as He word states, “ whose sins you forgive are forgiven whose sins you retain
Are retained, which seems to tell us, we are
Only responsible within the parameters we
Have as individuals where we must forgive the sin, but there is nothing further that would suggest upon anyone whose powers to be effected to feel that Trust can be regained, thats why entities outside personal sins we cannot control, albeit commanded to forgive the sins against us as imperative, with God knowing hate begets hate and to forgive the
Sin against us as divine, with sins against one another as for the sake of our own Soul, thats
Why the scripture which speaks about “ whose sins you have forgave are forgiven and to not forgive are retained”, Not that we are able to
Forgive that sin as God, rather, that scripture
Rests on our obedience to forgive, whereas
The one who sins against God in the act, we
Havent any power to forgive that, as God said
The wages of sin are death, there is always
“ something” that dies when sin is committed, even when personally the sins against us we must forgive, the nature of that sin against us
Still destroys what trust had otherwise not been sinned against, yet once it is, that trust
Is dead.

So when our Lord says the wages of sin is death, something dies from the sin as what
Sin does by its very nature sayeth the Lord.

People minimize and or confuse what it truly means as the wages of sin is death as if it
Contradicts God in whether or not He can forgive it or not, but the real meaning of that
Scripture, says, something dies with each sin we commit.

We cannot ever gage whether God has forgiven us or not, why, because Hes Sovereign, we are not, and all we can do
Is await our own conscience as we stand
Before Him, whose job it is to convict us
Of our intentions where we can no
Longer run or hide, when we as individuals
Must give an account, we judge ourselves
In accord to our own guilt, God sends noone
To hell or to heaven, people choose that on
The basis of their own personal account.

God can and only has told us to warn us all,
To choose who we want to serve, since we
Cant serve two masters, or we hate one and
Love the other.

To love God is a mere reflection of our lives
In our words and our deeds, not what we
Think we meant, but what we are to take
Responsibility for what our words and actions
Showed it to have served.

Thats why in this example, the church
Takes complete control to dispel anyone
Who they are responsible for, to what
Is for the betterment of the people who
Trust them to handle, and that of the sin
Itself, to whoever was personally effected
In likewise to handle within themselves and
Their own conscience.

How long did God take to restore David's kingship after his sexual sin, not to mention his murder?

o_mlly said:

How long did God take to restore David's kingship after his sexual sin, not to mention his murder?

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We dont even know if David was ever
Restored in Gods eyes from either
Of those two sins.

Linda426 said:

We dont even know if David was ever
Restored in Gods eyes from either
Of those two sins.

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Through Nathan, God forgave David’s sins, stating “The Lord has taken away your sin” (2 Samuel 12:13-25).

o_mlly said:

Through Nathan, God forgave David’s sins, stating “The Lord has taken away your sin” (2 Samuel 12:13-25).

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And yet there were consequences for David and for the kingdom. David lost the son of his adultery. And Absalom challenged his rule. And eventually the kingdom fractured.