Re: A Frustrated Mother
Unregistered mother,
Like the others have said, I’ll start out by thanking you for what I’ll take as a reminder concerning civility and non-slanderous speech. In what is mostly currently an echo chamber, it is easy to let the tone of dissatisfaction reach a peak.
However.
There is a big difference between airing out family issues versus airing out church issues. Namely, the Bible does not say to air out family issues. But it does say to air out church issues.
Yes, Jesus’s message was love. But He wasn’t always a sweet purple dinosaur named Barney swaying back and forth singing about it. Jesus had steel. Do you recall what He called the Pharisees in Matthew 23?
Hypocrites, children of hell, blind guides, blind fools, blind men, dirty on the inside, whitewashed tombs, full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean, full of hypocrisy and wickedness, snakes, brood of vipers, condemned to hell.
Would you tell Jesus “ENOUGH”?
No. Because He is taking to account people who are spiritually abusing His people. He is taking to account the religious hypocrites who put burdens and weights and oppression and laws and rules and regulations upon His people that God never put there Himself. This is what is called spiritual abuse.
And this is what the brothers in the local churches do to all God’s children who are under their speaking.
This forum is an attempt to follow Jesus’s pattern in calling out darkness and hypocrisy. Slander is not slander if it is true.
The Bible doesn’t say “if there is a problem in the church then that is just the sense of death and you should focus on life.”
Ephesians 5:11 says, “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, BUT RATHER EXPOSE THEM.”
Matthew 18 says if there is a problem, talk to that person. If that doesn’t work, then bring a few more. If that doesn’t work, THEN TELL IT TO THE CHURCH.
Paul reprimanded Peter to his face for living in a way unworthy of the gospel.
The Bereans examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul was saying was in line with the word.
While we may be using people’s names, what we are really focusing on are the twisted teachings and practices in the local church, and the spirit behind them. I believe most on this forum have a heart of love, or at least strive to, towards the people in the local church. What we do not have a heart of love for is darkness.
Forgiveness and accountability for inflicting damage are two different things.
Trapped
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