Dealing With Church Hurt

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A church can break your trust, but Jesus never breaks his covenant.

One Barna study among unchurched adults shows that nearly four out of every ten non-churchgoing Americans (37%) said they avoid churches because of negative past experiences in churches or with church people. 

Church life is messy, but it is also a place of hope, comfort, and reconciliation.

The first way we deal with church hurt is to…

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We must face the church’s inadequacies with the hope that Jesus is the way toward holiness. 

No one has been hurt by the church more than Jesus himself. Noah Harris reminds us that two things can be true at the same time…“Jesus hates that you were hurt by the church, yet Jesus still loves the church.”

A second way we deal with church hurt is to…

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Pretending and hiding behind behavior modification and monitoring instead of a transformed heart leads to destruction in our relationships and churches. 

We are unholy, but we find hope in the holiness of Christ.