After Ted Haggard confessed to a gay sex and drug scandal, he lost his Colorado Spring pulpit, his job as head of the National Association of Evangelicals and underwent a lengthy period of counseling and discipline.
For the most part, he hasn't been seen much since.
Other fallen charismatic/Pentecostal superstars, however, have rapidly reemerged into the spotlight with a new wife, a new church, new TV ministry or a new message from God that seems to dismiss the gravity of their sins.
Lee Grady has seen it all, and he's had enough.
Grady, a longtime editor of the widely read Charisma magazine, says the miraculous and transforming power of the Holy Spirit he and other charismatic/Pentecostal have experienced is under assault by the "epidemic of moral failure among our leaders."
"We can have the gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation without this circus sideshow going on," Grady said in an interview. "I'm waving my hands in the air because this is a huge problem, and we are going to experience even more serious problems in our churches if we don't know how to apply godly discipline to our wayward leaders."
Lee Grady's voice is much appreciated (and needed!). My hope is that there will be more and more like him and the shenanigans that have led to the *epidemic of moral failure* become a thing of the past.