Eldad, this is all true, but I don't think Chris or you or I is posed on any particularly nasty precipice.

You could equally say 'the only difference between any pastor and Ted Haggard/Jim Bakke/Jimmy Swaggart is that the pastor has not yet succumbed to the temptation.'

Anyone may fall. Yet we ought to be able to acknowledge that, as of a given moment, it hasn't happened to us (yet?). With the right tone, this can just be factual.