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Old 10-22-2014, 09:36 AM
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How to Deal with Church Hurt

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Re: How to Deal with Church Hurt

Does the Bible speak of the issue of "church hurt?" Maybe I'm wrong but seems to me "church hurt" is a modern phenomenon and therefore suspect.
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Many times we wonder how someone from CHURCH could hurt us. We have an unrealistic expectation of everyone in our church being holy and perfect.
I dont think God thinks its unrealistic for his people to be perfect and holy. I think he expects all of them to be. So perhaps many Church hurts happen because believers are to far from God.

The closer we get to Christ the harder we will be to offend. If we are mature in the faith we will think twice before hurting someone in the first place.
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I dont think God thinks its unrealistic for his people to be perfect and holy. I think he expects all of them to be. So perhaps many Church hurts happen because believers are to far from God.

The closer we get to Christ the harder we will be to offend. If we are mature in the faith we will think twice before hurting someone in the first place.



Love comes with the Spirit. You shouldn't have to grow to love. So if you have the spirit of God in you, you shouldn't want to hurt people.

But I will say this. Something that bothers me is when people use the word "perfect" by itself. There is perfection according to the bible and there is natural perfection. I can be perfect according to the Word of God but be as disorganized as a 2 year old child and I will see God's face in peace.

You know what I mean.

Just a pet peeve of mine.
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Love come with the Spirit. You shouldn't have to grow to love. So if you have the spirit of God in you, you shouldn't want to hurt people.

But I will say this. Something that bothers me is when people use the word "perfect" by itself. There is perfection according to the bible and there is natural perfection. I can be perfect according to the Word of God but be as disorganized as a 2 year old child and I will see God's face in peace.

You know what I mean.

Just a pet peeve of mine.
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And yet CAN we grow in love?

9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 1 Thess 4:9-10

So yes love comes naturally with the Spirit and it can be increased.

More truth based love would solve most problems with the children of light!
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Church hurt goes back to NT times. Consider all the admonitions to love one another. Consider all the admonitions against tolerating sin in the body. Frankly, if there wasn't church hurt a significant portion of the Epistles wouldn't have been written.
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If you think you need God's help to love, well, whatever works, I suppose.
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If you think you need God's help to love, well, whatever works, I suppose.
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So true. Love is not something that we are naturally born with. Because God is love we don't initially understand what love is until we come to the truth. "Love is patient, love is kind." Being that we are still in the flesh we are going to have this struggle of learning how to love.
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Church hurt goes back to NT times. Consider all the admonitions to love one another. Consider all the admonitions against tolerating sin in the body. Frankly, if there wasn't church hurt a significant portion of the Epistles wouldn't have been written.
Amen. Paul himself even dealt with church hurt first hand. He was originally an outcast of the church and even from the apostles until years later after being saved.

He stated that he was in peril of false brethren as well.
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