You should hold your pastors accountable to fulfill the Biblical vision of pastoral ministry. But you can't hold leadership accountable to do their duty if you do not know the Biblical teaching of what that duty is. But that kind of deep, joyful responsiveness is simply not possible except where the people learn what the Biblical vision of the pastoral calling is. Of course I have left out what might be the most obvious reason why a text dealing with pastoral failure is relevant today, namely, that there is so much of it, especially sexual failure. I was reading this week an essay by Erroll Hulse, a Baptist pastor in Liverpool, England in which he said, It is a morbid and depressing fact that when it comes to adultery, there are too many casualties among pastors.
Ministers are just as vulnerable as others.
No area, no country, no denomination is immune. This is a distasteful subject, but we cannot shirk it. The matter demands faithful treatment. Let him who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. Samuel Logan, pp.