Hope Carpenter, co-founder of Redemption World Outreach Center in Greenville, S.C., was enthusiastically welcomed back by congregants on Sunday months after her marital infidelities were exposed at the pulpit by her husband, Pastor Ron Carpenter. Carpenter, this time around, took other Christian leaders to task for supporting him when he declared he would be seeking a divorce.
With his wife and family sitting in the very first row of the sanctuary, Pastor Carpenter manned the pulpit not to preach a sermon, but to tell “a story” about how God changed his “hardened heart” and reminded him of his marriage vows and how his love for his wife should reflect Christ’s love for the Church.
Reading from several passages he said he felt led to by God one “miserable” night when he was looking for answers, Carpenter began his story by reading from Mark 10:1-11. The New Testament passage describes Jesus’ interaction with some Pharisees (“church folks,” as Carpenter called them) on the subject of divorce.
CLICK HERE to read story
source: Joy105.com
