John 8:7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let any of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
No one is perfect and no one should portray that they are. It is totally unacceptable for a leader of any kind to use a conversation that was held in confidence as their next sermon or discussion. It is also considered inappropriate for a leader to tell unconfessed sins just because you haven't confessed your sin to them in front of the whole congregation. This can leave one feeling totally rejected with feelings of betrayal. These things need to be stopped beause it's gives one the wrong impression about what going to church really means. It causes people to stop going to church and they then have their doubts about who God really is.
In John 8 is the story of a woman in which people were about to stone to death beause of her infidelities and Jesus steps in and ask if anyone in the crowd was perfect because if so let them cast the first stone. No one was able to cast that stone because no one is perfect. In Matthew 7:3-4 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye." How can you say to your brother,'Let me take the speck out of your eye',when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? Leaders should not make their sermons into a song and dance for a whole congregation to hear about something that was told in confidence. Be aware of unguarded talk.
