Spiritual Abuse Forum???

[StMark]

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

Anyone who has pastored any length of time could tell plenty of stories about being mistreated and "abused."

You don't see us doing it though. I would never in a million years air things done by saints to me and my family on the internet.

I can't imagine doing that.

Anyone ever stop to ponder why pastors don't do it?

Coon, you ought to start that a site for abused pastors - maybe call it "saintsabuse.com
seriously though,being raised in a Pastor's home,the average saint will never have any idea -I suppose it's part of the cross to bear



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[Coonskinner]

Originally Posted by StMark

Coon, you ought to start that a site for abused pastors - maybe call it "saintsabuse.com
seriously though,being raised in a Pastor's home,the average saint will never have any idea -I suppose it's part of the cross to bear

I have a policy that can be summed up in five words from the Scripture--"Tell it not in Gath."

[StMark]

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

I have a policy that can be summed up in five words from the Scripture--"Tell it not in Gath."

I don't recall that from any passage- care to elaborate on it's meaning

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Coonskinner

I have a policy that can be summed up in five words from the Scripture--"Tell it not in Gath."

I have been puzzled by this approach. No offense, but my reaction is "Who are you trying to kid?"

1Sam 31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
1Sam 31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

1Sam 31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.

The fact that Saul and his sons were slain and that Israel was routed was already well publicized. Saul's armor was paraded as a trophy throughout the land of the Philistines and finally set up in the house of the goddess Ashtaroth. Jonathan and Saul's decapitated bodies were then affixed to the walls of Bethshan.

On an historical side note: Here is the "votive stela" or plaque where offerings were made in the House of Ashtaroth in the city of Bethshan in the late Bronze/early Iron Age. Saul's armor was no doubt laid before this very stela.


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