• The One About Church Hurt - Let's Talk About It! Episode #31

  • Apr 16 2024
  • Duración: 48 m
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The One About Church Hurt - Let's Talk About It! Episode #31

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  • #ChurchHurt #Church #Hurt Well, hey there, hello to you today. Thanks so much for joining me here on The Prayer Podcast. I’ve been praying and listening for the Lord’s leading, wanting to make sure I am hearing from Him and obeying Him regarding all aspects of my life, which includes podcasting. And it’s been a minute since I recorded an episode for this show. Praying Psalm 91 Course Choosing to really ask God for His exact will means I had to set aside time to really pray and really listen. And pray I did. Listen I did. There’s an area of my life that God has done a tremendous work in since fall of 2019, and it was a good work, a needed work, but a hard season to walk through. Recently I began working on something that I thought was just going to be for me, like a journaling exercise…many of us have Bible study journals and prayer journals, so I thought my journaling was going to be something like that. Uh, no. A solid nope. It has been something else. So far, it has turned into about 9k words, and I am not even close to being finished with this project (for lack of a better word). Two things that have jumped out at me lately are: Number 1, I am way better off, more healed and whole in this particular area of my life, than I thought I was. Number 2, I am seeing that many, many Christians have been dealing with this same issue and the Lord has very clearly led me to talk about it. Now before I get really bold, which I am incredibly prone to do, I want to share that I’ve vetted this topic with others, of course with my husband, and also in a group I’ve been part of that is led by Joanna Weaver (you know her as the author of the book Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, which has sold over a million copies), and in that group we discussed this topic that I’ve been writing about and so I’m not just out here shooting from the hip. It’s taken a bit to get here, today, to record a podcast episode on the somewhat sensitive, often misunderstood, seen as too hot to handle topic of church hurt. And since I am often bold when I speak, I want to mention that I have prayed and asked the Lord to make me more meek and caring and less bold for this subject. Because it’s a tender and sensitive topic, and the experiences so many of us have been through warrant thoughtful words and compassion and empathy and the love and truth of Jesus over all. Lord, may my words be only what You want them to be, set a guard over my lips to stop unhelpful speech. Bless Your people, and may Your heart for them in this area of life overflow and bless them in ways that bring healing, and hope and Your highest favor. In Jesus name - Amen. Church hurt. First things first: it’s real, so if you don’t think it’s a real thing, I want to let you know it’s okay to stop listening to this podcast because my aim isn’t to argue, or to upset anybody, and my aim is not, as the Lord knows, to damage or malign the church, His church. I’m not here to badmouth or to bash. I’m here because God put me here, frankly, and because His church is made up of His people, and we don’t do right by the people He loves so dearly when we set aside the hurts that many of us have experienced within His church. I love the church, because how can I love Him and not love His church? Out of that love, I served. Long time service to the body of Christ. In many different ways. And in total transparency, some of that was to the detriment of my health, when I kept on keeping on in ministry longer than I was physically equipped to (a heart failure diagnosis, to be specific, and I served for three years following that diagnosis, even though it came with a high price). And to the detriment of my time raising my children when they were young, also in total transparency. To them, all five of them, I owe an apology and I am so very sorry that I did not see clearly that what was being asked and even required of me, in order for the five of you to have a place in children’s ministry I had to serve enough to let all five of you have a spot, as crazy as that sounds it was true way back in the 90s, and I am so sorry that I, with my health struggles and my little tots to care for, gave up too much and did not see, know or understand that what God had given me to use to love you well at times was poured out on all the ways that the church demanded it… I didn’t totally get this wrong, but too often I was more tired than you deserved and often we were go go going when you needed to be home home homing. For that, my sorry is never going to be enough, in my mind. It grieves me, and I believe it also grieves the Lord. To the mamas out there listening today who feel like they have to serve so much in order to even be able to attend Sunday morning services, who are serving and serving so their older kiddos can attend a mid-week group or to those who don’t go to Bible study or small group because they have been told ...
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