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.
Heavenly Father, you are Yahweh Rohi. You are the Good Shepherd. Lead us in your way. Keep us on the right path. Don’t let us turn to the right nor to the left and get off-track. Speak your wisdom and guidance into our daily routines and dreams of the future. There is no one like…
Oh, God our Father, give us the wisdom to turn to you and pray during those times we feel surrounded and don’t know what to do. Lift our hearts, minds and souls to you. I pray in the name and authority of Jesus, according to your good and perfect will. Amen. “O our God, will…
Father God, you are the one I choose. I take my lot with you. You supply all my needs and take me to pleasant places. You give me a beautiful inheritance in your courts. I bless you for your counsel, even the nights you wake me to pray. The early morning prayers you arouse me…
Almighty Sabaoth, God over the hosts of heaven and of earth, there is none like you, none more righteous or powerful. You hold the hearts of kings in your hand like streams of water. You turn them wherever you will. I pray Scripture over the leaders of my country. I pray for their wisdom and…
Yahweh Sabaoth, you are LORD of hosts, over the armies of heaven and earth. There is none like you. You hold the hearts of kings like streams in your hand, and turn them wherever you will. Give us courage to walk in your ways like Jehoshaphat, Father. His was fearless as he brought down the…
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