{"id":30789,"date":"2021-02-15T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30789"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T14:17:28","slug":"7-people-we-can-pray-for-when-a-christian-leader-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30789","title":{"rendered":"7 People We Can Pray for When a Christian Leader Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Praying-image.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I write on February 15, 2021, the Christian world is heartbroken again by the news of\u00a0yet another internationally-known Christian leader\u2019s fall into sin. There are so many reactions we could have to news like this. I\u2019ve been pondering the reaction of <strong>prayer<\/strong>. Here are seven people or people-groups we could pray for when a Christian leader falls into sin.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>#1: Pray with the Trinity and for the Trinity\u2019s Glory<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In Jesus\u2019 high priestly prayer in John 17, He prayed that the Father might be glorified\u2014as His children are united in love and sanctified by the Spirit. Of course, a Christian leader\u2019s moral failing is the opposite of Christian unity and maturity. So, first, we should pray that despite the sin of God\u2019s people, God would still be glorified.<\/p>\n<p>We should also pray with the Spirit\u2014who groans with us over the fallenness of our world\u2014Romans 8:19-27. And we should pray with the Son\u2014who ever lives to intercede for His people (Hebrews 7:25).<\/p>\n<p>When a Christian leader falls, perhaps we could do less Twitter tweeting and we could do more Trinity-like praying\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <strong>#2: Pray for the People Sinned Against by the Fallen Christian Leader<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In Matthew 18:6-7, Jesus expresses holy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are seven people or people-groups we could pray for when a Christian leader falls into sin.<br \/>\nThe post 7 People We Can Pray for When a Christian Leader Falls appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3532,116,3533],"class_list":["post-30789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-fallen-christian-leaders","tag-prayer","tag-ravi-zacharias","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Praying-image-768x474-2-1.png?fit=768%2C474&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30797,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30789\/revisions\/30797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}