Truth hurts: the congregation of the New Life Church responds to a letter read out to them from Pastor Ted Haggard, in which he confessed that he was guilty of sexual immorality.
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This link A New Page in the New Life Story
is a 1 hour talk on the 5th November given at New Life Church.
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An outstanding example of Scripture being followed to sort out a problem.
. What you listen here should be a template for all churches
Simply outstanding.
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Ted's Confession and Gayle's response.
I have not hesitation in saying it would be a pity for you to miss listening the talk below. Well if you miss out, that's life.

A New Page in the New Life Story - Ross Parsley, Larry Stockstill
Sunday Nov 5, 2006 - 9:00 am

New Life Church is not a man or a building; we are a family, and our family is standing strong together through the difficult times we faced this week. In this service, Pastor Larry Stockstill of Bethany World Prayer Center and head of New Life's Board of Overseers announces the Board's decision to dismiss Pastor Ted Haggard as Senior Pastor of New Life Church, and shares letters from Ted and Gayle to the church family. Interim Senior Pastor Ross Parsley then brings a message of hope, encouraging us from the Word of God that the truth upon which New Life was built remains constant. We are sad, but we are hopeful and we are grateful. Our last chapter has not been written; in fact a new book is now beginning. The New Life Church family's best days are ahead.
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Sacked sex-scandal pastor confesses: I am a liar

Mark Coultan, New York
November 7, 2006

Truth hurts: the congregation of the New Life Church responds to a letter read out to them from Pastor Ted Haggard, in which he confessed that he was guilty of sexual immorality.
Photo: AP

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FIRST it was: "I never meet this man." Then it was: "I bought drugs off him but I never used them, and I never had sex with him." But by Sunday, it was time for confession.

Ted Haggard, former head of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals — the man with President George Bush's ear — finally told all: he was a hypocrite and a liar. The overseers of the New Life Church in Colorado, which he founded, sacked him for "sexually immoral conduct".

It was the most spectacular downfall of an evangelical leader since the Reverend Jim Bakker was embroiled in a sex and accounting scandal in 1987.

In a letter read out to the Sunday congregation at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Pastor Haggard said: "I am guilty of sexual immorality, and I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar."

He said he wanted to clarify "my heart's condition" after telling reporters a series of stories since male prostitute Mike Jones alleged that the pastor had been paying him for sex every month for the past three years. Mr Jones also alleged that Pastor Haggard used methamphetamine to heighten the sexual experience.

The prostitute said he went public to expose the churchman's hypocrisy because of his support for measures to ban same-sex marriages.

In Pastor Haggard's letter to his parishioners, he said: "There is a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I've been warring against it all of my adult life. For extended periods of time, I would enjoy victory and rejoice in freedom. Then, from time to time, the dirt that I thought was gone would resurface, and I would find myself thinking thoughts and experiencing desires that were contrary to everything I believe and teach."

He said he had sought help, but it had not been effective.

"The public person I was wasn't a lie, it was just incomplete. When I stopped communicating about my problems, the darkness increased and finally dominated me."

Not all the accusations levelled against him were true, he said, "but enough of them are true that I have been appropriately and lovingly removed from ministry".

He asked the congregation to forgive his accuser, saying: "He is revealing the deception and sensuality that was in my life. Those sins, and others, need to be dealt with harshly. So, forgive him and, actually, thank God for him."

He said that he loved his wife.

"What I did should never reflect in a negative way on her relationship with me. The problem was not with her, my (five) children, or any of you. It was created 100 per cent by me."

His wife Gayle also wrote a letter to the women of the congregation, saying: "I know your hearts are broken; mine is as well." She said she still loved her husband.

Pastor Ted Haggard is the president of the 30 million-member NationalAssociation of Evangelicals (NAE), the largest evangelical group in America.He is also founder and senior pastor of the 14,000-member New Life Church inColorado Springs, Colorado. He formed and serves as the president of boththe Association of Life-Giving Churches, a network of local churches, andworldprayerteam.org, the only real-time global prayer network.

Pastor Ted has been interviewed by Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw,Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, and more. Time included Pastor Tedin their list ofthe 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America. Harper's says, "Nopastorin America holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalismthan does Pastor Ted."

He graduated from Oral Roberts University in 1978 and has received two honoraryDoctor of Divinity degrees. He served as the American Vice-President for WorldMissions for Jesus, a German missions organization, and served as an AssociatePastor at Bethany World Prayer Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which helpedhim plant New Life Church in 1985. Haggard and his wife, Gayle, have five children.

NEW LIFE CHURCH

The New Life School of Worship is based out of New Life Church in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado. New Life Church was founded by Pastor Ted Haggard and his wife Gayle in 1985 in the basement of their home. The church has grown to a membership of over 14,000 people with a broad diversity of cultural backgrounds. The ideas of city strategies, maintaining a global perspective, growth through relationships, and freedom in worship form the core of the New Life culture.

As a church family, New Life believes strongly in growing throughrelationships. Because of that, we facilitate hundreds of small groupseach week, helping people connect and grow together in God. A commonsaying around the New Life family is that "relationships are ministry".

New Life reflects Pastor Ted's desire to impact the nations throughlocal churches, missions, and strategic prayer. The World PrayerCenter, located of the New Life campus, coordinates a global prayernetwork and trains prayer-based churches and leaders from across thenation in these concepts. The Prayer Center also functions as a24-hour/seven-day-a-week house of prayer, where people from all overthe city can gather to worship, pray, and seek the face of God.

Worship at New Life Church is at the core of our relationship withGod and each other. We believe in the corporate gathering of believerswhere God's presence impacts and changes our lives. As we offer to Godthe simple moments and activities of each day, we make our very livesan offering of worship, allowing His presence to pervade us. These areholy moments, in which we encounter God and He reveals to us His heartfor the world. As He fills us, it becomes our desire for the nations tosee His glory so that all people will come to know our Savior.

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