Colorado Megachurch Pastor Jonathan Wiggins Resigns Over 'Moral Failure,' Elders Say

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Colorado Megachurch Pastor Jonathan Wiggins Resigns Over ‘Moral Failure,’ Elders Say

https://julieroys.com/colorado-pastor-jonathan-wiggins-resigns-moral-failure/

Jonathan Wiggins, the controversial lead pastor of a Colorado megachurch, abruptly resigned last week over “moral failure and personal shortcomings,” according to a report in the Loveland Reporter-Herald.

“Following recent accusations, we, the trustees, have accepted Pastor Jonathan’s resignation effective immediately,” the newspaper quoted Britton Cottrell, a board member at Rez Church in Loveland, as saying during Sunday worship.

“We, along with our advisers, first learned of these accusations on Friday. We met all day yesterday, and we have moved swiftly to address the issue. We are committed to handling this matter with grace, with integrity, and in accordance with biblical values.”
Without going into details, Cottrell said “the accusations we are referring to, that we have accepted the resignation over, are not of an illegal nature. It is a moral nature that we agree is a disqualification.”

Wiggins previously was involved in a lawsuit over text messages he exchanged with Sethry Connor, an associate pastor at the church. The suit stated that Christine Connor, at the time married to Sethry Connor, “used the texts . . . to convince other people that Wiggins was carrying on an adulterous homosexual relationship with Sethry Connor.”
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[UpInArms]

1. Not a

Drag queen

[Initech]

2. Another one bites the dust! Another one bites the dust!

[Wednesdays]

3. Does that "moral failure" involve minors?

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. I am thinking it is a reference to the 'homosexual' suit from before.

As in, it was not as false as they said it was.

Western religions usually don't like gay people.

[Iggo]

18. A dead girl or a live boy, traditionally.

[Walleye]

4. Sounds like a failure of the flesh. The moral failure was setting himself up, preaching to everybody in the first place

[Midnight Writer]

5. I bet he said something mean about Charlie Kirk.

[dalton99a]

6. Typical lying, grifting, cheating Evangelical pastor

[Ocelot II]

7. But at least he's not trans or a drag queen.

[CurtEastPoint]

10. ah! Film at 11!

[RockRaven]

8. "We are so committed to integrity that we will be hiding the facts from the masses"

"Just trust us"

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Sethry (wtf?) and his bff Mr. Uh-wiggins (thanks to Mr. Tudball) and ....

A moral failure is being a hateful hypocrite. Loving another person is NOT a moral failure.

[SamuelTheThird]

12. gee, so shocking

[kerouac2]

13. Unbelievable

Just kidding.

[617Blue]

14. Another day - another GOPerv.

[walkingman]

15. Par for the course.....

"The primary determiner of whether the white person in front of you is a white supremacist is whether they go to church. If you were recruiting for a white supremacist cause on a Sunday morning, you’d likely have more success hanging out in the parking lot of an average white Christian church—evangelical Protestant, mainline Protestant, or Catholic—than approaching whites sitting out services at the local coffee shop." - Robert P. Jones, the head of the Public Religion Research Institute

[Iggo]

17. Lol..."biblical values."