Applicant is
not married. The Committee feels a
pastor’s wife is a valuable asset in social activities and as a liaison with
the women of our congregation.
Applicant
has had no actual pastoral experience, having been only an itinerant revival speaker.
He is unable
to show any salary history, kept no records of the irregular offerings that he
received, and is unfamiliar with IRS forms.
He has no
residence of his own but, in his words, “crashes on friends’ couches” wherever
he happens to be.
The Ministerial
Alliance reports that he is not a member in good standing and is in fact the
subject of several complaints by local pastors, including:
(1) Excessive drinking
(2) Associating with disreputable
characters
(3) Arguing in public with local pastors
(4) Ridiculing a prominent church donor
(5) Attracting crowds on street corners
and impeding traffic
(6) Practicing medicine without a license
The Ladies Auxiliary of one church
reported he argued about their prices at a rummage sale, overturned a table,
and threw their cash box on the floor.
A known prostitute was seen greeting
him in public with a big kiss, which he made no effort to resist but seemed to positively
enjoy.
Absent for the annual Men’s Fellowship
Dinner, he was spotted entering a
topless bar instead and responded to criticism by laughing and singing part of a Hank Williams, Jr., song, “I’ve Got Friends
in Low Places.”
Members of
his own family have voiced concern about his mental health.
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