Findings: My Journey To Joy                            

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.—Joy S. Taylor, Author

Today is a beautiful day, because even though it rains, God’s Son still shines. (Revelation 2:28 and 22:16, 2 Peter 19) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because my job is to love you, pray for you and tell you what Jesus means to me; the Holy Spirit’s job is to convict you and lead you to Jesus. (John 15:26) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because “we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you do well to pay attention as to lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s…

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Highway

Today is a beautiful day, because the Holy Spirit guided the pens of the men who wrote the 66 books of the Bible over more than 1000 years to tell the story of one perfect man. (2 Timothy 3:16) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because the Holy Spirit prompts repentance and prayer. (Romans 8:26) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because believing in Christ takes us from being born of flesh to being born of the Spirit. (John 3:6 and Ezekiel 36:25-27) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because unlike Old Testament times when the Holy Spirit worked through the characters God chose temporarily, God will not take His Holy Spirit from me. (Ephesians 1:13) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because God gives the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation and knowledge of Him so our eyes open to the hope to which He calls us. (from Ephesians 1:17-18) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because when we “heard the word of truth, the gospel of (our) salvation and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.” (Ephesians 1:13 ESV) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬