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.

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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.

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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.

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Joy in Verse Encouragement for 20160910

Today is a beautiful day, because Jesus called us the salt of the earth and encourages us to stay ‘salty’ for his glory; and he again punctuates his statements with “He who has ears, let him hear.” Are you hearing? Are you listening? (from Matthew 5:13 and Luke 14: 34-35) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Today is a beautiful day, because “The son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun…

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Today is a beautiful day, because the apostles recounted Jesus’ story of the sower, ending it with “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” Are you listening? Are you hearing? (from Matthew 13:9, Mark 4:9, Luke 8:8) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Today is a beautiful day, because “all the prophets and the Law prophesied until John” of the coming Messiah; and Jesus punctuated their claims with “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” (from Matthew 11:13-15) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

So Far

Today beautiful day, because the blood of Abel cries out from the ground for atonement, and the blood of Christ answers back, “Redeemed!” (from Hebrews 12:24) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Today is a beautiful day, because Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant so that we may receive God’s promised redemption and hope for the future. (from Hebrews 9:15) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Today is a beautiful day, because “there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:5 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday

Revolving Door

Today is a beautiful day, because Elihu presents the idea of a mediator, a ransom that restores man to righteousness, in Job, one of the oldest books of Scripture. (from Job 33:23) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday