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In reply to the discussion: "I just want to thank my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ, without whom this would not be possible." [View all]Bundbuster
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While McCartneys public image was that of a devoutly religious man and hard-working football coach, privately he was consumed by an addiction to alcohol, explosive temper and obsession with work.
The contradictions continued after the 1991 founding of Promise Keepers, the all-male ministry that instructs members to practice spiritual, moral, ethical and sexual purity and build strong marriages through love, protection and biblical values.
But when McCartney admitted in 1993 that he had had sex with another woman several decades earlier, she cracked. Lyndi McCartney closed herdrself in her room, refused to speak with anyone on the telephone, accepted no visitors and lost 80 pounds. I vomited every day for more than seven months, she says in the book. I could no longer cope or function. I went into self-imposed isolation and considered taking my own life. Thats when Bill noticed I was wasting away before his eyes.
He also came to realize how his behavior had played a part in his daughter Kristyns two out-of-wedlock births - both children fathered by football players on the team he coached.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/nov/20/his-first-promises-were-often-broken-book-reveals/
Yeah, I'd sure want my children to hold Bill McCartney as a good model of Christian morality.