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A Demanding Forgiveness: Reflecting on Ted Haggard's Comments from the National Youth Worker's Convention

First Posted: 11/22/10 02:33 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:15 PM ET

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Forgiving Ted Haggard

markrallen.com:

Look, I must start this post by letting everyone know I am a hypocrite. I poke fun at people like Ted Haggard and other infamous Christian's often, in fact, probably too often. When I saw that Youth Specialties was having Ted and Gayle as keynote speakers this year, I thought it might be a controversial topic to say the least.

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Look, I must start this post by letting everyone know I am a hypocrite. I poke fun at people like Ted Haggard and other infamous Christian's often, in fact, probably too often. When I saw that Youth S...
Look, I must start this post by letting everyone know I am a hypocrite. I poke fun at people like Ted Haggard and other infamous Christian's often, in fact, probably too often. When I saw that Youth S...
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Onward through the fog!
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11:41 PM on 11/25/2010
Neither was I all that impressed by your article, Mark. This statement by you was an eyebrow raiser: "If he had gone on to warn pastors about the dangers of not dealing with festering secret sin, I would have been impressed." Well, there you have it, love the sinner but hate the sin, which of course translates as "Ted Haggard should be happy if he gets any forgiveness at all."
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