On the other hand, preaching about how adulterous behavior is a straight ticket to hell and all adulterers need to be hanged while being MEGAadulterer in the background tends to hurt your cause.
Makes for good testimony if the person gets back on the straight and narrow though.
The part about going straight to hell, all sin is the same but repenting of what you have done (adultery, steal a pack of gum, whatever) is the ticket out of the dark place and back into a place where you can be of some benefit to others. It is hard to be a person who can make a difference and be a person who steals packs of gum at every opportunity. A person who is repenting but is falling short, that person is still in good enough shape to do whatever (work charity for instance) one can't expect to always be repenting and falling short for the same thing though. Luckily once one major sin is taken care of there is usually another big sin to work on next.
I was leaning more on the 'preachers' that talk about how people that aren't perfect are going to hell, and make all sorts of 'fire and brimstone' sermons... and then they get caught spending the collection plate money on a gay prostitutes.
Also similar are those 'televangelists' that end up spending all the money they collect on a mansion, expensive cars, and hookers.
