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Open Wounds - Overcoming church-hurt

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Open Wounds will be a journey that my audience, my guests, and I will take together. The topic is church-hurt. The reason I felt led to start this podcast is, I have heard a number of stories about some of the damage local churches have caused in the lives of believers and non-believers alike. I personally have suffered church-hurt. It's a part of my testimony, a part of who I have become as a dad, a husband, a friend and as a pastor. In many cases, just like any other abusive situation, the victim is blamed. It's not uncommon to hear others say, "he brought it upon himself", or "his hurt is self-inflicted", or "he just needs to get over it". These statements, tragically, come from those who profess to be followers of Jesus. As we proclaim the grace and humility of Jesus, we can quickly forget that we, as His children, are commanded to be just like Him. We are to love each other just as He loves us. In fact, the Apostle John writes that loving one another as Christ loves us is how others will know we are His disciples. However, as Christians we fall short of this command. Even those Christians we are supposed to trust the most. Our ministry leaders, our deacons, our elders and even our pastors can easily fall into the trap of pride and self-righteousness which inevitably can and does lead to hurting members of the flock. The Good News is, God allows us to go through situations in life, both good and bad, to make us into the people we need to be in order to fulfill His will. After all, faith is trusting God's will over our own. Again, Open Wounds is a journey we will take together. I'll be talking with people who have suffered church hurt and discussing what they experienced and how they have or are coping with it. I hope you will join us. I pray this podcast will be used by God to be a source of inspiration and healing for those who have been hurt by the people we're supposed to trust the most. After all, Jesus is our Savior, Sanctifier, HEALER, and Coming King.

the truth hurts! but YAH heals!!

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“There is no reason why hypocrisy, the disease of the day, should come so naturally to men. But which of you is not contaminated by it? How many of you are self-deceivers, making excuses for these things? How is it you can readily detect the small faults in others while being absolutely blind to your own much greater ones? How can you say to another, ‘Let me help you see more clearly,’ when you are practically blind yourself? You, hypocrites and self-deceivers, first examine your own faults and failings before criticizing those of others.” Book of Natsarim, Chapter 9 - 53

Poetic Rhymes that are Profound and Epiphanic

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I am an extrovert, although I\'m predominantly an introvert empath and a starving artist (I’ve drawn, wrote, and now I write poetry), I’m a truth seeker/autodidact, a humanitarian, and I have a very keen sense of intuition which is why I’ve created this platform to combine these attributes in order to make your experience of being informed more engaging through creative writing. Informing you in this way will be more riveting, profound, eye-opening, enlightening, and awe-stricken. In short, I’m using my abilities towards a greater cause to inform you of important information while simultaneously blowing your mind; non-fiction poetic writing of significant information that will cause within you orgasmic realizations experiencing epiphany after epiphany!!!\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n Now, an epiphany is so profound to the point to where it’s initially perceived subjectively (intense/extreme feelings/emotions) as euphoric, horrific, enraging, eerie, and so on…, basically it depends from person to person hence the phrase, “Different strokes for different folks.” Fortunately, an epiphany is just objective information independent of and contrary to overwhelming emotions (subjectivity); not good nor bad, free of any bias or prejudice caused by personal feelings, and based on facts rather than thoughts or opinions. The Silver Lining in this is that although being engulfed or consumed emotionally by an epiphany can be compromising (susceptible to irrationality), however, it’s not about how you “Feel” because emotions are just a source of energy to draw from, but it is about what you “Do” with the epiphany that counts: The epiphany is just a stimulus that triggers the emotion while your emotion can be used to your advantage as energetic fuel (sort of like an adrenalin rush) to be released through constructive or instructive outlets.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n Take me for instance,\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n…all human entities seem to possess what might be referred to as an “information comfort zone.” Furthermore, most humans seem to LIKE this zone – and they don’t particularly want information discomfort to be induced or intruded into it. Thus, old and familiar information associated with information comfort is desirable over new, unfamiliar…information that induces discomfort. Thus, it is easy enough to see WHY information that might entirely wreck information comfort zone is viewed with ultimate distaste.” -Ingo Swann\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n“In the end, we return to the question, just how much do you love truth? Do you really love truth or are you just curious? Do you love it enough to rebuild your understanding to conform to a reality that doesn’t fit your current beliefs, and doesn’t feel 120% happy? Do you love truth enough to continue seeking even when it hurts, when it reveals aspects of yourself (or human society, or the universe) that are shocking, complex and disturbing, or humbling, glorious and amazing-or even, when truth is far beyond human mind itself? Just how much do we love truth? It’s a good question to ask ourselves, I think” -Scott Mandeleker\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nThe point in the two quotes can be summed up in this excerpt:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n What you’ve just read above couldn’t have been said better, and it stresses the point that in-order to come to the truth about life’s big questions requires our willingness to step out of our comfort zone regardless of how uneasy it feels because the incentive is to dispel the normalization of delusions about history, science, religion, politics, evolution, existence, and consciousness (we are living in a struggle between a superimposed false reality upon actual reality). Truth is synonymous with facts and facts are the bedrock/cornerstone (the best tangible evidence) of reality, which means that it is the fundamental principles that tells oneself if they are in touch or out of touch with reality!!! I do not have all the answers but many would be surprised to the mounting facts (evidence) I’ll share herein to reason one’s self and ourselves (harmony) into a comfortable position on life’s most puzzling questions, and as best said by Walter Williams concerning facts is: “Facts are stronger than argument, more dependable than opinion, more profound than reasoning, silences disputes, supersedes predictions, and facts always ends the argument, you bring facts it’s over, there’s no arguing over the facts.”