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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Pastor "Takes One for the Team"
Perhaps you've already heard about this... it happened a couple of weeks ago in Tulsa. Evidently Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty sang one too many verses of "Just As I Am", because during the invitation, one man came forward, walked up to the pastor, and punched him in the face! (you can actually see the blood in the picture above!)
Pastor Daugherty said, ""I had been preaching on praise and Thanksgiving in every situation," he says. "And this guy walked forward. I thought he was coming to receive the Lord, but he had another plan." He now sports a black eye and a couple stitches.
According to Tulsa's NewsChannel 8, Daugherty said, ""The first time I was hit, what went through my mind was, did he just hit me? I mean it was bam, bam."
With blood pouring down his face, Daugherty kept on preaching and forgiving.
"We don't forgive because we feel like it," he says. "We forgive because it's the right thing to do."
Daugherty wasn't going to press charges. But, 50-year-old Steven Rogers was hauled off to jail after allegedly hitting two more people, including a security guard.
"Did you ever think I'm gonna smack this guy?"
"I never once thought of even hitting back."
"So you going to get back on the saddle Sunday?"
"Yeah, that's right."
--Way to 'take one for the team,' pastor. I wonder how each of us would have responded (with cameras rolling). If that pastor would've punched back, it would've been on every evening newscast in the nation! :)
Todd
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I must say that it takes a big man to do something like this. Of course you know we have a bigger man inside of us and that man is Jesus. But often times the flesh will push him aside and take over.
I do not ever say well if that had been me I would have done this or that. Because you do not ever know what you will do until faced with that situation.
It's not an easy thing to do. Not unless you were like me before Christ, and was in fights all the time. But then you became disciplined because of a judge telling you, I will put you under the jail the next time mister.
I hope I have made some sense... My hat is off to him.
Posted by: Evangelist Jeff | Nov 29, 2005 10:15:39 AM
That was a very Christ-like response. I'm proud of Pastor Daugherty.
Posted by: Kevin | Nov 29, 2005 11:00:10 AM
Yes, I agree that it was big of him to forgive. I hope I can have the same gracious response if it ever happens to me!
However, this guy did this before, about 15 years ago to Richard Roberts. He needs help or incarceration, or both.
In assaulting these men, he didn't merely sin against them - broke the laws of the state. I think the state needs to step in and keep him from doing this to someone else!
This isn't unforgiveness, in my mind, it's called "protecting" people.
But I'm willing to be proven wrong (this time! :))
Brian
Posted by: Brian La Crox | Nov 29, 2005 1:03:17 PM
I agree with Brian. We do indeed "reap what we sow."
And "reaping" doesn't negate forgiveness.
Sometimes we must "reap"--thoroughly reap--just to know how much we have sown.
Put this man in protective custody..
For a long time.
Posted by: Phil Hoover-Chicago | Nov 29, 2005 1:09:26 PM
Not to make a joke but it does sound like he did turn and give him the other cheek. I have had people spit in my face and threaten to hit me and my wife, however it never happened. I hope revival broke out in that church. Let us all take a lesson by this, not everyone is coming to recieve the Lord
Posted by: Allen | Nov 29, 2005 10:24:56 PM
If uou do public ministry you will get an oppertunity to see how you would handle this.
I have not been hit yet, but a team mate was mooned, and got a storng pat on the back from the mooner. Prior to the mooning.
I read of another public preacher that was stabbed, set on fire, knocked over while preaching this very year in Australia. The police watched along with some Christians.
Two of the Christians walked up afterwards and said "your preaching was not obviously not annointed" After they had finished two teenagers in the group that attacked him ran abck and turned to Christ.
This happened over the span of his sermon, he never stopped except to stand back up, and did not feel any pain until afterwards.
Posted by: Franklin Reeves | Nov 29, 2005 10:53:54 PM
you can check it out at www.victorytulsa.org
make sure you watch the entire service!
Posted by: Jerry | Nov 29, 2005 11:26:42 PM
God's directives are ideal. However, we do not live in an ideal society, in our time.
Richard Rogers enabled Steven Rogers to "hit" again by no apprehending him and then calling the authorities.
This man is disfunctional in a very dangerous way and long ago should have been taken into custody after hitting his first victim.
Think about it, God has fixed spiritual as well as natural laws. When these laws are broken, for whatever reason, we have to deal with automatic consequences.
A society, without law and order, becomes an anarchy. As a civilized society, we must cooperate with the law.
Steven Rogers needs help, true, but he must not be enabled to do further damage to himself as well as another.
So many of our pastors are abused, in many ways. I pray God will use this to bring our attention to this fact. God bless ALL our true God-sent Pastors. I pray for their physical safety, may they see the fruit of their labor in His Kingdom Work.
Posted by: Mrs. Sudie Goodman | Nov 30, 2005 11:12:33 AM
Sudie,
I'll be the first to thank you for those prayers!
Brian
Posted by: Brian La Croix | Nov 30, 2005 7:19:18 PM
Pastor! How AWESOME! We don't do things because WE want to, we do them because it's the right thing to do. Continue to Be Blessed! Felicia
Posted by: Felicia Cunningham | Dec 6, 2005 2:47:40 PM
We had an unusually powerful series of revival services several years ago. A woman came forward during the invitation, smiling as she took my hand, and proceded to tell my how full of it we were and exited the building. I felt like I had been punched in the gut. I couldn't follow her out, so I sent a woman out to talk to her. She was a troubled soul we had helped on several occasions. She committed suicide a couple of years later. I'm not sure I am over that one yet.
Posted by: David Bowman | Dec 12, 2005 9:19:30 AM
