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WWJD about Domestic Violence and Abuse Towards Christian Women?
“Now when He rose early on the first day of the week, He
appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast
seven demons.” Mark 16:9 NKJV
Case A. Many times we are influenced by prejudicial beliefs that
unwittingly attach themselves to us. We live in a world where our
senses are receptors to messages all around us; voices and
scripts of prejudice play out through the airwave, through
generational hand-me-downs and through social experiences.
Such messages imprint on our minds, and impact our beliefs and
our expectations about race, culture and sex. No one is immune;
therefore, it is each Christian’s responsibility to renew his or her
thoughts by washing the mind with the Word of God so we can
think as Jesus does. 188
Jesus’ love extended across class, race, culture, and sex.
On different occasions, He reached across social barriers to
minister to those whom society was prejudice against. One such
person, whom He reached out to, was Mary Magdalene. Mary
Magdalene was a victim of many things including emotional and
physical afflictions (and also social stigmatism, as her state of
emotional and physical instability imply). 189 Yet, she was the first
person Jesus showed Himself to after He was resurrected from
the dead.
Imagine that! If we were to guess beforehand who the
first person would be that our resurrected Lord would reveal His
glorious self to, whom among us would even put Mary
Magdalene on our list of prospects? Of all the people in “the
Body”, who would imagine that she would be Jesus’ choice - this
victim with a past?
Apparently, she was not the disciples’ first choice either.
Even though she bore the remarkable news of Jesus’
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