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1 | How does the church respond to abuse? | Jer 5:31 | Hatshepsut | 86509 | ||
I have a question or rather a comment concerning domestic violence that I would like to hear others perspective on. My husband was an evangelical minister in the church. Our entire family, including our six children, were heavily involved in ministry. Two years ago, I left my husband and moved to another state almost 500 miles away because he became more and more violent. He was psychologically, emotionally, mentally and even sometimes physically abusive to me and the children. He was also sexually abusive to me. When I went to my pastor about the issue, I was made to feel as if it were my fault. Sadly, most women in communities of faith are made to feel this way, thus they stay in abusive marriages. I thank God for his power of deliverance through His word. It was only through the Holy Spirit's revelation of the word that I learned that my Father in heaven did not condone my husband's behavior or the church's turning a deaf ear to my cries and the cries of my children. I have forgiven my husband, my pastor, and all those who kept silent. My question is this: The Bible speaks very clearly about domestic violence, yet communities of faith still treat women as if they are cursed. When will the body of Christ wake up and realize that the curse Eve (woman) was cursed with in Genesis, was removed at the cross? Why do we continue to teach women to be "submissive" under any and every circumstance and yet not teach men that submission, as Ephesians speaks about it, is a two-way street. Biblical submission is not just commanded of women, but of men also. Sumbission is also not synonymous with subservience and dominance. One submits out of love and respect. It is not submission if it is forced. There are many women sitting in churches today condemned to die with plastered on smiles and spirits that have been destroyed. What is the church going to say, what is the body of Christ going to do about the issues of domestic violence that are running rampid and largely unchecked in communities of "faith". |
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2 | How does the church respond to abuse? | Jer 5:31 | dwilde | 86538 | ||
My prayers to you and your kids. I wood like to think that we all know that when a crime is being committed that we go start to the cops and or seek council from in side and out side the Church. No matter your eternal status you must obey the laws of the land, and do the time. if it is a gray area ask wood this happen if God is right hear, because he is. |
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