A Christian pastor in New Jersey is commanding his church leadership to get off Facebook because he says too many congregants are using the social tool to cheat on their spouses.
The Rev. Cedric Miller, at Living World Christian Fellowship in Neptune, N.J., has issued an ultimatum to roughly 50 married church officials: delete your Facebook accounts or resign.
Miller said that over the past six months, some 20 couples at his church have sought his counseling for infidelity problems because either the husband or wife had reconnected with an old flame on Facebook or were using the site as an online singles bar to pick up men and women.
“I’ve been in extended counseling with couples with marital problems because of Facebook for the last year and a half,” Miller said. “What happens is someone from yesterday surfaces, it leads to conversations, and there have been physical meetups. The temptation is just too great.”
The pastor, 48, plans to preach about the subject on Sunday, but concedes that, while the associate pastors, deacons, minister and other leaders must follow his orders, he can’t tell the congregation what to do.
Miller had asked married church members to share their passwords with one another, but that solution didn’t seem to be working.
“The average citizen is going to see my action as controlling, not that I care about that,” Miller told the Asbury Park Press. “I’m not concerned with being politically correct. I’m trying to save families and marriages.”
Miller, a married father of six, has a Facebook account, but said he will deactivate it this weekend.
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