Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Abuse Of Ministry

This morning, I read about the famous Elon Musk's penchant for putting information (evidence) on his blog. My own blog has been tame, considering the information that I have. I am thinking today of abuse of ministry in particular. There is something almost unspoken in the Church. A minister will be abused and he (or she) will never speak. This does not merely lie within my own experience. It is proved by research. Researcher Marcus Tanner states: “Everybody knows this is happening, but nobody wants to talk about it.” It is secret. Yet in the USA, there may be more than 150 000 ministers who experienced such intense abuse from “a small faction” in their Church that they had to leave. OBSERVATION: The trouble is that, by treating abuse this way, as a secret, it repeats. That, too, is proved by research. If you don't deal with it the first time it happens, you could be fuelling an inter-generational problem that will hurt a lot of people for years to come.

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