{"id":1490432,"date":"2022-05-24T17:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490432"},"modified":"2022-05-24T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T21:14:46","slug":"pastor-admits-adultery-asks-forgiveness-gets-standing-ovation-then-the-woman-tells-congregation-how-old-she-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pastor-admits-adultery-asks-forgiveness-gets-standing-ovation-then-the-woman-tells-congregation-how-old-she-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Admits Adultery, Asks Forgiveness, Gets Standing Ovation. Then The Woman Tells Congregation How Old She Was."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpastor-admits-adultery-asks-forgiveness-gets-standing-ovation-then-the-woman-tells-congregation-how-old-she-was%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A 65-year-old Indiana pastor admitted to his congregation that he had committed adultery in the past, begged for forgiveness, then was rewarded with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Then the woman with whom he had conducted the affair ascended the stage, saying \u00a0the pastor had slept with her when he was 38 and she was 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 27 years I lived in a prison. It was not 20 years. \u00a0I lived in a prison of lies and shame,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor John Lowe prompted the response by telling the congregation at the New Life Christian Church:<\/p>\n<p><em>I committed adultery. It was nearly 20 years ago. It continued far too long. It involved one person and there\u2019s been no other, nor any other situation of unbecoming conduct for the last 20 years. I will not use the Bible to defend, protect, deflect my past sin. I have no defense. I committed the adultery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t make a misjudgment; I sinned,\u201d he stated. \u201cI need to say that and you deserve to hear it. I have been asked why did I wait so long to deal with it. Why hide it all these years. The answer? There is no good answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lowe said he could have claimed he kept silent to protect the woman involved but admitted, \u201cThe silence was to protect myself as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After he finished by asking forgiveness, then announcing he was stepping down from his position and exiting the stage, the congregation gave Lowe a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Then Bobi Gephart, now 43, and her husband Nate strode up to the stage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10849281\/Indiana-woman-forces-married-pastor-admit-affair-16-church.html\">according<\/a> to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you love us, let us talk,\u201d Nate said into the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 27 years I lived in a prison. It was not 20 years. \u00a0I lived in a prison of lies and shame,\u201d Bobi Gephart recalled. \u201cLying to protect the Lowe family. For years I thought I was a horrible person, having suicidal thoughts and not realizing what had been truly done to me; that I was a victim, and I would still be in a prison, if my brother \u2014\u00a0and many of you know him\u2014 had not just approached me just two weeks ago with what he had seen as a teenager that bothered him all these years: his pastor in bed with his younger sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA T-shirt and underwear on,\u201d she remembered. \u201cPeople knew but were too afraid to come forward. And they have now. The lies and the manipulation have to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a prisoner and you kept me in your prison,\u201d she said to Lowe. \u201cI\u2019m a prisoner no longer. I was just 16 when you took my virginity on your office floor. Do you remember that? I know you do and I have plenty of other stories that I could bring to your remembrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou did things to my teenage body that had never and should have never been done. If you can\u2019t admit the truth, you have to answer to God. You are not the victim here,\u201d she declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried to tell someone but all that was done was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 65-year-old Indiana pastor admitted to his congregation that he had committed adultery in the past, begged for forgiveness, then was rewarded with a standing ovation. Then the woman with whom he had conducted the affair ascended the stage, saying \u00a0the pastor had slept with her when he was 38 and she was 16. \u201cFor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1490464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}