![]() ![]() I sincerely ask for your forgiveness and to be restored as your pastor. “I recognize and understand that what I said was imprudent and discourteous. “I want to say to the church that I’m truly sorry that I embarrassed you,” he said in the statement. In his new statement, Clark said he's been meeting with a professional counselor during his leave of absence. One of her favorite expressions is ‘food never tastes as good as skinny feels.” She is thin and she wants to look attractive herself and she wants me to look at her and nobody else. “She wasn’t always a bean pole, but she is now. I want a good-looking woman on my arm,” he said of his wife. He explained that his wife, who has had three children, gained weight during her pregnancies, but she responded to her weight gain by getting involved with the Weight Watchers program and he joined her to show his support. “Why is it that so many times, women, after they get married, let themselves go? Here’s how way too many women are - ‘I’ve got him now, the chase is over.’ Hey, that’s where you’re wrong. It’s really important to a man to do that,” he said, questioning why women appear to stop paying attention to their physical appearance after marriage. … I really don’t think women understand how important it is for a man to have a beautiful woman on his arm. “I really don’t believe women understand how visual men are. ![]() Your man needs an attractive wife,” he declared. But since I’m the preacher man, I’ll say it. “I want you to know a need that a man has that he won’t ever tell you about. “So whenever she’s not in the mood ,” he said.Įarlier in the sermon, the pastor told the audience that husbands need their wives to stay attractive to keep them interested in marriage. In his February sermon, Clark quoted 1 Corinthians 7:4 to encourage women to be sexually available for their husbands, which says: “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.” According to Word and Way, Clark has since been reaffirmed by church deacons, but it is unclear when he will return to the pulpit. 28 after receiving backlash in response to the sermon, first highlighted by artist Reagan Williams in a Facebook post. ![]() The pastor took a leave of absence starting Feb. “To the ladies within the church, ladies in the community, and those viewing our Livestream I want to say I am deeply sorry for any and all pain or distress that my words brought on you,” he added in the statement addressed to “Dear Church & Community.” “In the sermon, I made insensitive remarks about women and made statements deemed unbiblical,” said Clark in a statement posted on the website of First General Baptist Church of Malden, Missouri. Stewart-Allen Clark, a General Baptist minister in Missouri, has apologized after telling women in his congregation to keep slim, wear makeup and be sexually available for their husbands to keep their marriages healthy. Pastor of First General Baptist Church in Malden, Mo., Stewart-Allen Clark. ![]()
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