Would you speak up over child abuse?
Over physical abuse?
Over spiritual and emotional abuse?
Would you speak up?
If you saw families shunned overnight?
If you saw people called cowards or the ‘Spirit of Antichrist’?
If you found yourself minimizing abuse?
If you were asked to keep silent?
Would you speak up?
If a pastor dictated an aspect of your personal life?
If a pastor claimed tithing as ‘belonging to him’?
If a pastor consistently taught war over peace?
If a pastor mocked others praying?
Would you speak up?
If you were pressured over church attendance and performance?
If you were pressured to a ‘fasting and prayer journey’?
If you broke into tears due to ‘ministry’ pressure?
If you were pressured to ‘worship more’?
If you were pressured into moving up ‘just a few rows’ in church?
Would you speak up?
If you were pressured to ‘serve more’?
If you found yourself struggling to say ’no’?
If you were pressured to ‘give’ more?
If you were pressured to dress the same as everyone else?
Would you speak up?
For yourself?
Your spouse?
Your children?
Your parents?
Would you speak up?
Now read the list again, from bottom up. If you have experienced any of this, the time to speak up is now. Abuse seems small and isolated, until it’s not. Do not wait to see ‘if it really is that bad’.
The first step is the hardest: leaving abuse. I’m with you today, email me if you need any help or advice.
“Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.”
- Jer. 17:5
“And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and odes not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
- John 3:19-21
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
- Matt. 11:28-30