Rachael Robeson

- I love stories, raising 4 Robesons👶🏻🧑🏼‍🦱👦🏼👱🏻‍♀️ & creating digitally

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

@johnnarae @AdamShort143 @bbtbpod Listened to Kenny today. So good.

[Dr. matthew pierce, PhD, MDiv, RN, LPC, CPA, Jedi @MatthewEPierce]

my sisters, please do not wear those roller blade sneakers that have the wheels hidden in the soles. whenever i see someone start to slide across the sidewalk, i think "oh no, there goes michael jackson," but it's usually not him

[John-Uh Harris ☀️ @johnnarae]

integrity and care can create a BEAUTIFUL community that reflects Jesus.

Jesus isn’t flashy and grandiose.

He’s humble, intentional, and personal.

[Dan White Jr. @danwhitejr]

I'm convinced the future of the church is small, simple, slow, and super local.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

We are far less likely to use power than for power to use us.

This is why Jesus came to reveal a different kind of power: himself. Our proximity to him—not to a position—is our greatest influence.

[Susan Danielle @realprophetguy]

Here’s some books to start with:

When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse https://t.co/7LVsimxD4O

When the Church Harms God's People: Becoming Faith Communities That Resist Abuse, Pursue Truth, and Care for the Wounded https://t.co/g1TFJVSo7A

Something's Not Right: Decoding the Hidden Tactics of Abuse--and Freeing Yourself from Its Power https://t.co/QpFUvak6ff

[Susan Danielle @realprophetguy]

If you’re part of the system that created this crisis, it’s time to sit down and listen.
If you had the answers, we wouldn’t be where we are.

Here is reality:
The church has been groomed for DECADES as a community by predatory leaders and their enablers. All of us need therapy. Your leaders need therapy.

Every person who worked under these men was selected in some way for how they fed the system, either through naïveté, or bypassing and enabling, or because they were predatory themselves. Those who weren’t were pushed out.

The level of untangling that needs to happen will take YEARS.

You can’t have a few devotionals and sort this. You can’t worship harder and sort this.

Learn about coercive control. Learn about narcissistic behavior, and spiritual abuse, and trauma. Read Chuck DeGroat, and Diane Langberg, and Wade Mullins.

Don’t bypass with religious answers—sit in the discomfort. Do the deep work of untangling and healing and grieving what the church has become—realize that the shockwaves of damage you are witnessing are the tip of a vast iceberg that sits below the surface and has done untold damage to so, so many.

It’s hard. It’s so much. But if you sit with the grief and discomfort, you will honor the victims. They have been sitting with it for years. When we all sit together in it and do that deep work, we begin to heal.

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

@ChristaBrown777 I heard you in @bbtbpod and just got my copy today! Looking forward to reading your story

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

The mourner tells you what they feel and think. You do not teach.  You listen; you bear witness; you read them; you reassure because you understand the nature of grief. “Always take your cues from them. By instinct they are leading, in patience you are serving.”  Walter Wangerin

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

For those suffering trauma, fewer words, quiet voices, patience, and pausing so as not to overwhelm them are vital to our entering in so we do not bring further harm.

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

@MaryDeMuth Really appreciated the podcast!

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

@Wade_Burleson @watchkeep Emotionally Healthy Leader by Pete S talks a lot about this

[Wade Burleson @Wade_Burleson]

@watchkeep One of the great dangers in the Christian world is putting new Christians on public stages without time to examine whether there is a changed character and honorable motives of the one given the honor of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to an audience in need of a Savior.

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

I’m looking for pastors and faithful believers that say, “how can I avoid participating in these traps and avoid raising up the next generation to think this prideful showmanship is OK” I am looking for echos Philippians 2!

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

Ministers of the Gospel can hold the tension of the current events without a need for defensiveness. God alone is where we build our faith/ we can’t even build it on “faithful pastors”, though we are grateful for them and ALL ministers who cultivate what God loves.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

When we do not understand an abuser's capacity for deceit we make it is easy for the offender to continue in deception and sadly, often call it “grace”. If it lacks truth then it is not grace.

[Fr. Joash P. Thomas @JoashPThomas]

I can’t believe this needs to be said but church leaders who sexually abuse children should be imprisoned and permanently banned from any church ministry.

If the Church isn’t safe for children, it’s not safe for any of us.

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

@bozlawpa @GatewayPeople She’s amazing.

[Rachael Robeson @rachaelrobie]

@TimRehmer @LigonDuncan @LoganFarms_MS @RTSJackson 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 no.