Story Time: How A Movement Died
As a pastor I’m often privy to multiple sides of a story. What I mean is that at any given time I might be one of only three people to know about a cancer diagnosis. And I might be the only one to know that a family just lost a child to miscarriage. They are attempting to carry that weight privately, at least for a season.
But we all know that when we’re burdened by these types of things it’s going to show up somewhere. A Sunday school teacher may not have the same passion she once had—but it’s because she’s been up until 2am trying to console her suicidal teenager. And in unhealthy church cultures we fill in those knowledge gaps with slander instead of grace.
That kind of culture is life-sucking instead of life-giving. Today, I’ll give a bit of an autopsy of a once thriving movement and share my own part in it.
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