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Any society where women are not safe -- where there voices are not heard and their lives are not valued -- is a society completely out of alignment with God's will (Carmen Joy Imes in Becoming God's Family).
"Instead of offering broken people grace and rest, religious systems have handed out standards of religious performance as their solution. Tired, wounded people have been offered religious formulas, not God's unconditional love and acceptance. Consequently, many times they're more tired and depressed than when they first sought the help." - Jeff VanVonderen, Tired of Trying To Measure Up
For years, I missed the warning signs of abuse.
What I discovered later was painful and it completely changed how I see the church.
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I was talking to one of my kids recently about Corrie Ten Boom. The conversation turned to her sister Betsy. She hid the Jews and loved them, protecting their lives with her life. And she also loved the Nazis as humans. She prayed for all of them, and looked for every opportunity to show them Jesus, and remind them of their own humanity.
Some say it's not practical to love that radically. She utterly rejected hating her enemies, even as they killed her. But my goodness, I want to be like Betsy. I want to hold that kind of love. She's the definition of winning, when another kingdom is your reality.
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We need to consider the amount of violence inflicted against places of worship (including Christian schools and churches) in the last few years to understand why protesting and intimidating worshippers during a service is such a bad idea.