Dean wrote a good comment about the strangeness of the churches responce to Sexual Failure in it's leaders
"The incredible irony of the church is that if a guy walked into a church like New Life in Colorado Springs, saying that he'd been a drug user and had engaged in gay sex in the past, but was ashamed of it and believed it was wrong and wanted help to walk away from it (all things I understand are true of Ted) then they'd help him and eventually, if he had the right skills, etc, would probbaly release him into ministry..."
Interestingly Brian Tamaki (NZ Mega Church Pastor) tried to act more inline with trying to restore Ian Bilby (Mega Church Pastor caught in adultary). You can read some opinons of that here
http://www.moriel.org/notice/bilby.htm . I am so far out of the swing of things in regards to Organised Church, that I don't know what the conclusion was to the attempted integration back into ministry of Bilby? I heard about 5th hand, that it did not go so well, but I really have no idea.
Reintegration of restored Pastors in reality is a lot harder in practice then in Biblical restoration theory.
