If I Commit Adultery Or Fornication
- My relationship with God would suffer from a break in fellowship.
- I would need to seek forgiveness from my Lord.
- I would suffer from the emotional consequences of guilt.
- I would spend countless hours replaying the failure.
- My spouse would suffer the scars of this abuse more deeply than I could begin to describe.
- My spouse would spend countless hours in counseling.
- My spouse’s recovery would be long and painful.
- His/her pain would grieve me deeply and compound my own suffering and shame.
- Our relationship would suffer a break in trust, fellowship, and intimacy.
- We would be together, yet feel great loneliness.
- The reputation of my family would suffer loss.
- My children would be deeply disappointed and bewildered.
- My grandchildren would not understand.
- My friends would be disappointed and would question my integrity.
- I would lose my job at church.
- My witness among neighbors would become worthless.
- My witness to my brother would be worthless.
- My testimony among my spouse’s family would be damaged.
- I might never be employed by a church again.
- I might never be in men’s/women’s ministry leadership.
- I would suffer God’s discipline.
- Satan would be thrilled at my failure.
- Satan would work overtime to be sure my shame never departs.
- My spouse might divorce me.
- My children might never speak to me.
- Our mutual friends would shy away from us and break fellowship.
- I would bring emotional pain to the man/woman.
- I would bring reproach upon the man/woman.
- If the man/woman is married, the spouse might attempt to bring harm.
- He might divorce her.
- An unwanted child could be produced.
- My part in conception might trigger an abortion, the killing of an innocent child.
- Disease might result.
- Some might conclude that all Christians are hypocrites.
- My business could fail because I wouldn’t be trusted.
- My leadership among those I have led in the past might also diminish in impact.
- My zeal for ministry would suffer and possibly result in others not continuing in ministry.
- My health would suffer.
- I might have to start life over again.
- This same sin might be visited upon my family for four generations.