Before you kiss the frog, let’s talk. Let’s talk about choices that make your future healthier. Walk with me through a biblically based decision tree and not rely on aroused feelings and sensations that can lead us astray.
Come along with me through discussion of characteristics of churches and pastors that tend to operate this way under the threat of misconduct exposure. Let’s look at common techniques of leadership during the cover-up process.
This is the true story of a church in America's Bible Belt, the First Christian Church in Florissant, Missouri--a church with a meager beginning and record of steady growth for forty-nine years until the weight of sexual abuse charges against a youth minister left it, and its congregation, broken. This is a case history and analysis of those events. This is for the victims.
Holy God, you are Jehovah Nissi, the banner over us. I ask you to open your heavenly court as I come, clothed in the righteousness of Christ, to petition for unity among believers. The enemy seeks to divide us, to separate us into sects, to impose his labels upon us and set us against one…
Dear God, we need you. You are our calm in this time of distress. You are our provider in this time of uncertainty. You are our refuge in this time of riotous destruction. You are our hope in the coming time of tribulation. You are our salvation in this time and forever. I praise your…
Holy God, you are Jehovah Nissi, the banner over us. I ask you to open your heavenly court as I come, clothed in the righteousness of Christ, to petition for unity among believers. The enemy seeks to divide us, to separate us into sects, to impose his labels upon us and set us against one…
God of Creation, your little Carolina wren came back to pick up stray morsels from my deck and sing his morning song. How sweet his melody. How welcome is his return every day. I come to your mercy seat to pray for those who don’t know Jesus. May they turn to him in the height…
Yeshua, Jesus, King of kings and Lord of lords, who is above all, in all and through all, you are sovereign. You hold past present and future. You know past, present and future. You rule over past, present and future. Come against the evil of our day, Lord. Unleash the angel armies for the sake…
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