In his book Finishing Strong, author Steve Farrar tells of a study conducted by Dr. Howard Hendricks of 246 men in full-time ministry:

"Professor Hendricks was able to find nearly 250 men who without a doubt were committed to Jesus Christ. Yet the thing they had in common was that within twenty-four months of each other they got involved in sexual immorality. In other words, here are nearly 250 men who got suckered into the ambush of another woman.

After interviewing each man, Dr. Hendricks discovered four correlations between all 246 men:

1. None were involved in any kind of personal group.

2. Each had ceased to invest in a daily personal time of prayer, Scripture reading, and worship.

3. Over 80 percent of them became sexually involved with another woman as the result of counseling the woman.

4. Without exception, each of the 246 had been convinced that moral failure 'will never happen to me.'"