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 we hear the wind and sense its power to push us as it blows; so those born of the Holy Spirit sense His presence as our spirit testifies and feel His urging and power that glorifies God. (from John 3:5-8) (ESV Bible notes: ‘Wind’ and ‘Spirit’ translate the same…

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Today is a beautiful day, because of the washing and renewal of the Holy Spirit. (from Titus 3:1-8) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because the Holy Spirit hovers and descends like a dove. (from Genesis 1:2, Mark 1:1, Matthew 3:16, Luke 3:21-22 and John 1:32-34) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because Isaiah tells of the Holy Spirit’s work through Christ hundreds of years prior to Jesus’ birth. (from Isaiah 11:1-2) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because Zerubbabel rebuilt the house of God not in his own might or power, but by that of the Spirit of the LORD of hosts. (from Zechariah 4:6) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because the Holy Spirit departed from Saul when God rejected him as king over Israel and rushed upon David when God chose for himself the young man as the next king of Israel. (from 1 Samuel 16:13-14) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because the Holy Spirit worked through the judges in the Old Testament to bring God’s people out of worshiping idols and back to living for God. (from Judges 3,6,11, 15) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Denial

Today is a beautiful day, because God sent the Holy Spirit to empower Moses and then the elders of Israel to share the burden of leadership. (from Numbers 11: 16-17) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬

Today is a beautiful day, because the Holy Spirit always existed in community with God the Father and God the Son so that He participated in creation as the Spirit of God hovered “over the face of waters.” (Gen 1:2) ‪#‎joyinverse‬ ‪#‎blessedthisdayandeveryday‬