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"I want to be clear: I stepped down due to moral sin."
How is this clear? This is the opposite of clear since no one knows what "moral sin" is. There is no such thing as "moral sin." "Moral sin" is literally an oxymoron since sin isn't moral.
Here is one possibility for what this means: modern churches
will sometimes refer to sexual sin as "immorality," and modern Bible
versions replace the word "fornication" with "immorality"
or "sexual immorality." Maybe "moral sin" means "sexual
sin"? Why not just say that then?
"I have not committed adultery with another person."
The last 3 words here are totally unnecessary and awkward. Why not just say,
"I have not committed adultery"? Did you commit adultery by yourself?
If this were simply porn, wouldn't it be much simpler to just say "porn"?
Did you commit adultery with multiple women? "Persons" plural instead of "another person" meaning one other particular person?
I am not claiming to know the answers to these questions,
and I am not accusing him of anything in particular. I am just pointing out the
weirdness of his vague, meaningless statements.
"This was a voluntary resignation that I initiated."
There are 2 facts that prove that he was busted this week, and
that he did not know this was going to happen this week. He was caught off
guard.
1. His last sermon was called "The End of Jeroboam: When Trouble Exposes
Your Idols." If his resignation were premeditated, this would not have
been his last sermon. Who ends his 15 year ministry with a sermon called
"The End of Jeroboam"? Jeroboam was the bad guy in the story who split
the kingdom and taught false religion. The timing was an act of God, not
planned by Jimenez.
2. He was scheduled to preach at a church in Fresno this Sunday (1/18/26). This was abruptly canceled at the last minute. Pozarnsky uploaded a video saying that they were "actively" working on scheduling a new date for Pastor Jimenez to preach in a few weeks’ time instead (which clearly was not true). If he had planned on resigning, he would have canceled this meeting sooner or never scheduled it in the first place. It was canceled last minute with BS about rescheduling "a few weeks" from now due to Jimenez being caught off guard.
"My wife and children plan to remain at Verity."
So, his wife and children will attend church, but he won't? Will he simply stay home? Will they attend two different churches? How does that work? Are they splitting up? "She can leave" claims another victim?
"The church trustees are following the guidelines of our church bylaws to find a new pastor."
My hope and prayer for Verity is that they get the best possible pastor who can right the ship and lead them to future greatness. Stedfast went through a horrible scandal and went on to become far greater than ever and do incredible works for God. Verity can do the same thing.
You stay great the way you became great. Verity needs to get back to their roots. They need to get back to being a hard preaching, NIFB church. That's what made them great. Over the last year and a half, they have been going a bad direction and have been in decline. If they continue down that road, they will continue on that same course of ruin. They need to do something different to fix the problem. Hopefully the right element at Verity will prevail, and we will see them restored to their former greatness.
