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our church produced one of these. Quote:The Church Pain Paradox Seminars provide encouragement, education and healing for those who have been through destructive church and religious experiences.
The mission is
Quote:The Church Pain Paradox Seminars exist for those people who have been injured by a church or religious organization and who are looking for healing from those destructive experiences.
The BAD NEWS: It is a painful paradox that the very institutions that we have looked to for acceptance, protection, and safety ended up rejecting and hurting us.
The VERY GOOD NEWS: There is hope for healing and recovery! The Church Pain Paradox Seminars bring understanding to the dynamics of church pain and describes the path to recovery!
Why do The Church Pain Paradox Seminars exist?
To EDUCATE survivors on the dynamics of church pain, spiritual abuse and the specific path to recovery
To VALIDATE the experience of those who have been deeply injured by the church
To FACILITATE HEALING for the valuable souls whose lives have been devastated by church pain
To CREATE COMMUNITY and allow us to realize we are not alone in this confusing and painful journey
An Evangelical friend of mine is part of this. I thought, how cool. I know we have online groups, people like Bill Reel, The Givens, Richard Bushman, and many other break off private groups – but a church sanctioned/hosted/created seminar that really reaches the pain. It doesn’t have to promise to bring people back but it could really help those who stay to help those who hurt. And vice versa.
That is today’s dream.
The part that would make me wary is that they would probably blame it all on the member. I think they might be light on empathy and long on criticism of the person offended. That’s what our church does. This seminar feels better than what I think our church would do (I assume its the Evangelicals that are putting this on?). I still feel unsettled when I think of some of my experiences, but I have found moving on to other opportunities heals like crazy. And just because you healed doesn’t mean you necessarily go back to the status quo. Often a key part of healing is letting go of the old relationships and forging new ones — sometimes with new organizations even!
Yes, that would be cool. Absolutely. I would like that a lot.
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