The White Christian American Church and Shame

Many people have suffered awful spiritual abuses within religion. Affairs, misuse of funds, not taking care of congregants, ministers making advances on new attendees, shaming and casting aside a newly divorced woman, shaming an un-wed pregnant mother, causing the gay man to feel so uncomfortable and unwelcome he'll never look towards his Creator again. Hundreds of scenarios are playing out in our churches today. 

Here’s the secret, though… God is waking us up. Men and women who have been abused by the man-made religious system are coming to this understanding. Through social media, I am seeing an awakening of precious souls that have been tested under extraordinary temperatures, who are now embasissors and warriors for those left behind, those left blind, those still lost in hopelessness. This understanding is what brings us healing. Often our healing is even shamed, because those who truly heal through understanding and tell the hard truths are. 

If healing is done through the spirit, it can heal the entire family unit... My family was victims just as much as I was! This healing allowed everyone to take off the shame that wasn't ours. It allowed us to understand the choices we made. The need for forgiveness became minimal at best, with everyone understanding just what really happened! It showed us how evil had not only infiltrated our family unit, but also did so through spiritual authority. How does that happen? When we give man more authority than our spirit. 

This gives us understanding that even tells the secrets of the shamer. Shaming people into conformity is NOT the truth. To my Christian friends, let's be clear, there is NO Christ in that, except for the false narrative that causes one of His children to be away from the same God you claim to be saving them for. Putting shame on people in the name of God is blasphemy, and it actually causes people to fall further from Christ than it does bring them to a fulfilled life. Not just your religion, but you can cause someone to even stop pursuing a relationship with their Creator, because of your side eye, whispers, and assumptions. Judgment only brings resentment and repression to the one you are placing shame on. You just burdened their heart 3 more times than it was already burdened, and used your god to do it. One might realize that could be the very reason Jesus didn't use those methods. In the Christian religion, Jesus used thought-provoking questions, metaphors, and stories to help bring others to their OWN understanding. He didn't force them, shame them, or deem them unworthy because of their pasts, color of their skin, or gender. Let's be more like Jesus and less like Paul. Just remember, the only one worthy to cast the stone didn't.

Matthew 18:6

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