Coy aligned his fledgling church with Calvary Chapel, a movement started in Southern California in the 1960s by Chuck Smith, a laid-back West Coaster who wore Hawaiian shirts while he preached a fire-and-brimstone, old-school religion. I dont think it was ever told. You will have new people to blame for the fact that your pastor couldnt keep his pants on. Pastor Chuck Smith in 2006; the Calvary Chapel phenomenon, which now includes more than 1,000 churches nationwide and hundreds more overseas, began with the 25-member church Smith founded on a Costa Mesa lot in 1965. The inner circle or big givers got to have dinner with DC and BC. Am I Chuck Smiths disciple? Or are they not equally guilty. You have never read any of Luthers writings (I am sure at best you have read only out of context internet quotes) so a discussion about Luther would be unprofitable. This thread is too important and affects too many people to allow the personal conflicts on it. Thats just the sad reality of sin I forgive you. I like the blog I posted because they are not calling it moral failings but adultery-which is what the Bible calls it. So if the message was right the hearing and application of that message will produce the right fruit! Facebook gives people the power to share. The detective told her that he couldn't destroy the files, but he closed the case that day. Even through my anger and hurt, I know that it is just a sin, and that they are no worse than me when I lie or steal. OK, so now that is past, the claim is the church should have been told first. A few years back after leaving the church I found some old cassette tapes and his messages were less funny and more serious. And Israel becoming a nation in 1948? 'Jesus Revolution' leaves out the tough stuff but gets the music right, Sacked chaplain to appeal after losing employment tribunal case. She didnt want Vince to have to make the difficult decision of whether to turn off her life support, either. Babs, As we were talking about a couple of weeks ago perhaps Coy owns the intellectual property. It's October 2017, and Bob Coy hunches over a laptop in a far corner of the Funky Biscuit, a dimly lit club in Mizner Park in Boca Raton. But that doesnt mean you are any less capable of doing the same bad things you did before you were officially savedand the mindset is that, Well hed never do that, hes been transformed by the power of Jesus!well, no, that isnt true. Back 160 yrs ago Martin Stephan led the Lutherans from Saxony to America. Do you worship Jesus as God incarnate, The Lord, The Creator, The Giver of Life? I felt that the constant comedy instead of Bible teaching, was the sign that there was always something wrong there. If you believe the preterist Calvinist view Ive got a bridge in San Francisco I can sell you! I dont understand the part about bringing pride into this in some of the comments. We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In 1996, the church paid $21 million for a 75-acre campus just east of Florida's Turnpike off Cyprus Creek Road, where Coy often dipped into politics to guide his massive flock. In fact, I personally believe in a good and loving God who will forgive all his enemies in the endof which we are all enemies of God as well as his children. The crime scene was scandalously unprotected. One of the women confided in her friend, and her friend confessed to another high profile pastor in the area that had a friendship with Coy. He didnt repent of his wrongdoings when he hurt children or their parents. And you can prove it. I think I beat you to your passage and posting the Hebrew is a nice try for a save but to no avail. Coy's flock, which had followed him for decades as the church became Florida's largest, was devastated. Pastor Bob Coy and his wife Diane led a Florida ministry that grew to include satellite locations in Boynton Beach, Boca Raton, West Boca, Plantation, Hollywood, and the Keys, according to SunSentinel. However, if the Pastor fails, I am called to be forgiving and cut him slack. Smith was among the first pastors to make a startling discovery: Many of the hippies and disaffected youth who'd come for the Summer of Love had realized psychedelic drugs and the Grateful Dead weren't filling the holes in their lives. I agree with Michael, that MacArthur is being grossly misrepresented here. Daughter, We live in Coral Springs and have attended some of the more conservative churches in the area Reformed Baptist, Anabaptist and a John Macarthur affiliated church. Unreal. Youre not speaking Gods words, youre talking out your sanctimonious backside and youre in sin. Ok Michael, let me get through the weekend. Oh did I spoil your little party, are your dirty little garments full of ulterior motives showing as you point your self righteous little finger at others and relish in their fall! Jesus denied he was setting up a kingdom on earth and somehow you insist he was mistaken and that he actually is you have the place, Jerusalem and you have the time period, 1,000 yrs. Please reveal your sources, or at least generically their affiliation to Calvary Chapelor leave the story alone and let the church handle it in house.thank you, AND GOD BLESS YOU!! Gary, if you have an issue you can email me . ty10124 1 yr. ago. Its interesting that it was Jesus who made it personal when in essence he said; you can condemn this woman if youve never sinned, I think specially the men need to search their hearts and ask, have I ever committed adultery, whether the actual act or lusting in my heart, have I ever viewed pornography, the scriptures say to the young man, flee youthful lusts The sexual desire is stronger in our youth, so if youre a man whos 65-70 years old, you probably wont have a problem or temptation in this area, your problem might be with pride, or something else, If youre a woman you probably cant relate to someone who has a problem with pornography, since men are visual creatures and women are feeling oriented, thus a womans problem might be more with gossip or romantic fantasies like they portray in these Harlequin novels, and no wonder these pastors are so idealized especially by women. You surely mustve know that stealing was wrong or dealing drugs was wrong or fornicating was wrong etc. By that account we are all guilty, except it would seem for MLD. I can just throw out stuff also. Miami New Times, which first reported on the child abuse accusations against Coy on Tuesday, said that the 61-year-old founder of the 25,000-member megachurch in Florida is denying the allegations. The fact of the matter is, this doctrine has probably been used by Coy over the years to strike at others. Here is fine, but not sure of the rest of the readers care for this and dont wish to clog up the blog:) Thanks. Founded in 1985 by Bob Coy and his wife Diane, it is affiliated with the Calvary Chapel movement. Read some of the reports from that nightits all over the place in reputable sources. We learned of this report after it was disclosed and reported to the appropriate authorities. My sources (multiple) are accurate. No one really being in charge overseeing what was going on. I love my husband and I dont want to be divorced, but when things have been unhappy between us, I have had to literally run away from sin because I was tempted to allow someone else to give me emotional support that should have come from my own husband, but wasnt at the time. No Im not CC? It was failing, no one knew it because they were told and shown drawings of a new church in the works. Though we may seem callous about what has transpired, that could not be further from the truth. Why? Bob isnt. What was the result of your victimization? Give me a break. Where am I wrong on this? No one will recognize him on the beaches of South France or strolling through Florence. G, Thank you for your intercession last nightI forgot to turn it off this thread before I went to bed. On April 3, 2014, Coy resigned as Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, after admitting to committing adultery and having an addiction to pornography. In 1997, Coddington was inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame.[11]. Thanks for enriching us. May todays revelations be just one more step in your growth as a person of faith. Tracked down at the bar on a recent weeknight, the well-dressed ex-pastor looks no different from the days when he preached to thousands of followers. I have spent years hearing people around me saying, Bob Coy is so funny!, Bob Coy knows how to do church! ad nauseum. This is the first resurrection. Because of the way The Holy Spirit used Pastor Bobs Ministry my Wife , kids and I are all saved ! Read his book about the Kingdom. Pastor Bob has said time & time again that you dont go to church for him you go to church for a connection to god. Really? Someday, all our sins will be revealed, you may be surprised who has hidden this type of sin, how prevalent it is, and how many are struggling to not be exposed for fear of being treated like we are treating Bob Coy. well I should hope they would. This sorrow proceeding merely from the fear of punishment, is called legal repentance, as being excited by the terrors of legal penalties, and it may exist without an amendment of life. Some complained anonymously that Smith was "dangerously lax in maintaining standards for sexual morality" among his preachers. Once again MLD is right. I know the poster meant well, but this seems to be the kind of pastor worship that causes these problems in the first place, and lets pastors feel invincible for years of sin. Plus, listen to Greg Laurie talk about the situation on Pastors Perspectiveclearly the moral failure wasnt that Coy was driving solo in the carpool lane. The statement went on to say that a team of assistant pastors already on staff will maintain their usual rotating schedule as teaching pastors for all services. NOTHING can take that away ! May The Lord continue to bless you in your growth as you discover your gifts and calling and use them for the furtherance of his kingdom, my prayers are with you and CCFL, that God would be in complete and total control as he ordains those he has called to lead in this difficult hour, for we know that God is on the throne and he never fails! thoughts? If I had to choose between a repentant Bob Coy or even a Moses model pastor teaching correct doctrine or someone who is morally correct under a board that makes the decisions for the church, and yet teaching false doctrine like that Jesus only died for the Christians and not for the whole world, that there is no free will involved in salvation, when the Bible continually tells us that there is, and when part of their foundation is replacement theology, that is, that the church has replaced Israel and that the tribulation has already happened, then give me the Moses model pastor, sometimes and in many cases we have to choose the lesser of the two evils, as Jesus said, The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. He didnt say stop hearing them.