What does repentance look like in the life of a pastor?

Rob Ventura explains in this video a pastor who repents is a humbled man who acknowledges his fault. He understands that pastors are not immune to sin.

He understands that we all still wrestle with remaining sin. A repentant pastor will repent to others both privately and at some times, publicly. The fear of God and repentance go hand in hand. If you fear God, you will be repenting regularly.  

Acts 20:28 (NKJV) – “Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.”

What does repentance look like in the life of a pastor? What would you see in that man? Well, you're going to see, I would hope, a humble man who could acknowledge his faults. Pastors do sin, of course they do. Again, like Paul, woe is me, you know, for I'm undone.

That's Isaiah. But Paul, oh wretched man that I am, in Romans 7. And you know, oh wretched man that I am, not I was. And we still wrestle with remaining sin. And a pastor who repents, he'll do it privately to people.

Maybe you're having a counseling session. I had this one time. And the couple there said, you know, that you came across to us like this. I didn't know it. And then I just stopped and said, would you forgive me for that?

That's not how I wanted to come across, but right then and there. And again, the fear of God and repentance go hand in hand, because if you're a Christian who fears God, you're repenting regularly before God. And therefore it makes it easy to say before your people look at as I said that you know maybe I said it with too much emphasis maybe beyond what the text said would you please forgive me and I've seen godly pastors men that I model and have mentored me over the years actually say to their congregations I need to repent regarding what I said in this sermon, regarding that thing, not that it was wrong in the sense of truth or not truth, but I pressed it too far, perhaps further than, or farther than the scripture would have taken it. I ask you to forgive me for that.