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Lost in a Book
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Almost one year ago I approached my pastor, @emschumacher , after church. My heart was pounding out of my chest, and as I tried to speak my throat tightened as struggled to say three short words - “I need help”
I was exhausted emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically
In his new book, The Good Gift of Weakness, Eric systematically walks through the theme of weakness in the Bible. He invites the reader to embrace and celebrate weakness, “because it’s the backdrop against which God displays his strength.” (p. 26)
I left this book convicted, encouraged, and deeply comforted. I highly recommend reading it.
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I appreciated this podcast interview with @emschumacher. I recently read his new book The Good Gift of Weakness and highly recommend it.
🎉 This week @ElyseFitz is joined by guest host Emily Jensen to discuss @emschumacher’s new book, “The Good Gift of Weakness” (@Harvest_House).
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I grieve the many years I idolized motherhood believing my children’s faith depended on my ability to parent them “properly”
I am so thankful to now have a church that reminds me of the life-giving freedom of the gospel every Sunday - especially on Mother’s Day
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Another cost of church abuse, worship in a church environment is often stolen
Last night I attended Good Friday worship service at our local Amphitheater, it was beautiful. It is very difficult for me to go to church, it comes with anxiety that is hard to describe. It’s rooted 🧵
The idea that God brings trials to teach us a lesson was heavily taught in ATI
I believed my mom’s cancer returned because I failed to learn my lesson the first time
When my newborn son died I was desperate to figure out the intended lesson before God took more of my kids
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Asked today for a list of resources helping Christian boys grow into non-abusers and girls knowing and avoiding the 🚩 of abusers.
Here’s my response:
When my older children were little we attended a church where a deacon’s wife informed me the kitchen was the best place to take kids that needed to be “disciplined” during the service because the sound of them screaming didn’t carry to the auditorium from there
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Do not dismiss the power or destructive capacity of either verbal or emotional abuse. Do not think you cannot kill a soul with words alone. You can wound or kill a soul by many means - the lack of physical scars does not mean abuse is not occurring.
This is so similar to my parenting journey. I have so many regrets from those years and am thankful for their forgiveness and God’s grace.
Give them Grace by @ElyseFitz was my first step away from legalistic/authoritarian parenting
The first 5 years of parenting, I parented like the Wilsons. We had taken a class. We were so determined to parent "God's Way." We parented with all law and no gospel.
I cannot express the deep remorse I have for the mother I was during those years. Watching the videos floating around is bringing up all the regret I thought I've moved past. It wasn't godly, it was evil. I've lost count for how many times I've apologized to my kids, and God bless them, they have forgiven me. I haven't even been a perfect mother the 15 years since we changed our ways, and we had our "dark years" as we call them where my newfound chronic pain hit our family at the same time my son's health spiraled.
But as a family, we've been embraced by grace. Life-changing grace--for me and for them. That means he'll give us patience for healing too, freedom to talk about our hurts, and "calling a thing what it is" as Luther says. The freedom to be honest to not pretend everything is fine when it's not. Honest joy, and honest redemption.
I have lived in that world of training up a child in harsh legalism and calling it godly. God's law is good. Kids need the law. But just like grown ups, they need lavish grace. Grace is where the power is.
"Our sins they are many, his mercy is more."
Yes to all of this!
I still struggle to enjoy reading fiction because I was told my whole life it was an ungodly waste of time
And the only hobbies that I don’t feel guilty about are those that produce something useful I can sell or give to someone (sewing, knitting etc)
Me at 45 - Wondering why I experienced so much guilt/shame making and spending time with friends
Me at 12 - Listening to Bill Gothard teach Jesus didn’t have friends just disciples and spending the next 10 years filling out guilt/shame inducing checklists like this at ATI events
I finished this book today. I resonated with so much of her pain from my time as a pastor’s wife and the years since leaving ministry. We can grieve the loss of faith without invalidating or ignoring the damage inflicted by the church
Her story matters and deserves to be heard
When I was in middle school we tried a new homeschool writing curriculum
One of the assignments was to write a persuasive essay on a topic you disagreed with your parents
I was told that assignment encouraged rebellion and we immediately stopped using that curriculum
It was because of this teaching that my mom bought a grain mill and I had to start baking all the bread for our family when I was 12.
A couple years later I started sell it to friends at church and was baking and selling 20-25 loaves a week.
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