foxfamily238
10-25-2004, 12:52 PM
God bless all of you for your strength in recovering and STILL trusting God after your trust has been broken by "leaders of God". It is truly hard to trust in God and the people of God after a meltdown of trust, confidence, and leadership gone awry. Only the scars left over can bring reality to where even the mind would like to disengage from the past, real hurts.
We are writing a Book, and your personal testimonies and stories can help. It is not a "fictional" sensation book, but a much needed, informative book. If you can believe that many people are duped into believing that no one in ministry ever abuses people, much like there are those that believe that Concentration camps never existed. I'm both full blooded Jewish, as well as Full Spiritual blooded Christian. Been abused beyond a lot of people. So understand where I'm coming from.
This book will be dealing with the very essence of those who have been hurt and abused by the church, leadership, the "pastor", the "man of God". Those who have been dominated, controlled, intimidated, pressured, guilt ridden, boxed in, deceived, and so forth.
Do not misconceive or percieve this as a "money maker". Someone ignorantly posted that personal attack. I pray some would relieve or as one of these "threads" said, "vent". Lighten a load. this must be brought to light for many churches to face and deal with.
In lue of such small amounts of time we really have to accomplish this book, we are asking those of you who would like to contribute to perhaps in this case, limit your stray text to more of the factual and scriptural content. For ex., this would be more easily usable: "My pastor then humiliated me in front of the entire church...." as apposed to this: "My pastor, who I can't stand, humiliated and of all the nerve of someone to do this to me, what was going on in his mind ..." Hope this makes sense to you!
We are mainly dealing with the spiritual and emotional abuse, rather than physical abuse in this book. Remember, recovery and healing doesn't necessarily mean "completely forgetting" the past, for God has a positive outcome and plan in every scar. Your wounds become your ministry, your scars into your stars. You can now be hyper-sensative to those around you hurting, and in pain. What the enemy meant for evil, God means for good. Some can't understand that, but those of you spiritually able to hear that, please allow God to use you to minister to them, as you needed someone to minister healing to you!
God bless you in Jesus name!
- Fox Family - foxfamily238@hotmail.com
We are writing a Book, and your personal testimonies and stories can help. It is not a "fictional" sensation book, but a much needed, informative book. If you can believe that many people are duped into believing that no one in ministry ever abuses people, much like there are those that believe that Concentration camps never existed. I'm both full blooded Jewish, as well as Full Spiritual blooded Christian. Been abused beyond a lot of people. So understand where I'm coming from.
This book will be dealing with the very essence of those who have been hurt and abused by the church, leadership, the "pastor", the "man of God". Those who have been dominated, controlled, intimidated, pressured, guilt ridden, boxed in, deceived, and so forth.
Do not misconceive or percieve this as a "money maker". Someone ignorantly posted that personal attack. I pray some would relieve or as one of these "threads" said, "vent". Lighten a load. this must be brought to light for many churches to face and deal with.
In lue of such small amounts of time we really have to accomplish this book, we are asking those of you who would like to contribute to perhaps in this case, limit your stray text to more of the factual and scriptural content. For ex., this would be more easily usable: "My pastor then humiliated me in front of the entire church...." as apposed to this: "My pastor, who I can't stand, humiliated and of all the nerve of someone to do this to me, what was going on in his mind ..." Hope this makes sense to you!
We are mainly dealing with the spiritual and emotional abuse, rather than physical abuse in this book. Remember, recovery and healing doesn't necessarily mean "completely forgetting" the past, for God has a positive outcome and plan in every scar. Your wounds become your ministry, your scars into your stars. You can now be hyper-sensative to those around you hurting, and in pain. What the enemy meant for evil, God means for good. Some can't understand that, but those of you spiritually able to hear that, please allow God to use you to minister to them, as you needed someone to minister healing to you!
God bless you in Jesus name!
- Fox Family - foxfamily238@hotmail.com