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.
Today is a beautiful day, because Isaiah gives God’s message to His people of their glorious future, “And all nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” (from Isaiah 60:3) #joyinverse #blessedthidayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because the LORD, Jehovah-Sabbaoth, sits on His throne over all the hosts of heaven and of earth.. #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because God, the one “who gives sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar–the LORD…
Today is a beautiful day, because God warns us of His coming wrath just like He warned Israel for them to have time to turn back to Him through Jeremiah saying, “I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and…
Today is a beautiful day, because as God’s family, our light has come, and the glory of the LORD is upon us. (from Isaiah 60:1) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because we are one day closer to when the God is our everlasting light and our days of mourning end. (from Isaiah 60:19) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because if you pour yourself out for the hungry and work to feed and care for the homeless to break the bondage of evil, your light will rise out of the darkness, break forth like the dawn; gloom will depart and healing will come quickly; your righteousness will go before…