What Would Jesus Do about Domestic Violence ... - The Book Locker

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Chloe Cummings D.B.S.
because of some hyper-religious statements which he had
declared about his beliefs on divine healing, plus his temper and
the emotional imbalance which they’d encountered in their
interactions with him over the years. On another occasion, one
pastor had warned another member not to provoke my husband
because of a belief that he was capable of killing someone.
Yet, neither the pastors nor any other leader in that very
large congregation once demonstrated the love of Christ by
confronting my ex-husband about his sinful behavior patterns
[Though one woman with whom I had a counseling appointment,
wisely noted when she saw him walked by her office (he had no
reason to be in the building), that I was being stalked…God
bless her]. They were too concerned about not offending,
showing the pleasing sort of behavior many Christians define as
love, and acting like “Christians” rather than acting like Christ.
This type of response by that church is rather typical of many
Christian churches today. They believe that just praying for a
brother or sister, who is living a life of sin, and expressing love
towards them with niceties, is what Jesus called them to do. The
Christian church has in part redefined Christ to fit its religious
mold rather than transforming itself to fit into the image of Christ.
What would Jesus do? Would Jesus demonstrate that
kind of safe, distant, non-committal, kind of love? Is it truly love
when a church leader or fellow Christian puts his or her concerns
above that of the salvation of others, because an act of
correction would cause offense to oversensitive and immature
Christians? I believe that many of the incidents that I
experienced in my home are not isolated or rare occurrences in
the Christian home. Domestic abuse is spread out over a wide
spectrum, therefore I have depicted below three scenarios in
which violence and/or abuse is evident in the relationship of
three fictional Christian couples.
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