{"id":1196,"date":"2023-10-04T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2023-10-08T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:27:15","slug":"church-abuse-protecting-ministries-destroying-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"Church Abuse: Protecting Ministries, Destroying Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center; color: #000000; margin-bottom: 2px;\">Church Abuse: Protecting Ministries, Destroying Souls<br \/>\nDr. Diane Langberg, author of <em>Redeeming Power<\/em><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: auto;\">Speak Life<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Church Abuse: Protecting Ministries, Destroying Souls || Dr Diane Langberg, Author (Redeeming Power)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvIpQnBpNWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\"><span><strong>How do we respond rightly to abuse and make the church of Christ a place of healing and hope, rather than a cover for predators? <\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #676767;\">Glen Scrivener\u00a0recorded this interview with Diane Langberg in the wake of the Ravi Zacharias scandal and within days of the Jonathan Fletcher scandal breaking. Christians were stunned and confused and asking why.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Overview of video with timestamps<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=14s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">0:14<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Video begins with Diane Langberg giving an overview of how she came to an understanding of abuse, trauma, and the church. (Don&#8217;t skip this part!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=5m30s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">05:30<\/a><\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Church leaders with trauma and church leaders as perpetrators<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=10m15s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">10:15<\/span><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The playbook of the abuser; how the abuse happens; the cover-up, the role of deceit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=15m37s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>15:37<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;What dynamics in a church that make us blind to abuse?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=18m59s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>19:31<\/strong><\/a><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;How do wolves develop?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=21m42s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>21:42<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;How should leaders\u00a0use that knowledge to keep watch over themselves and over the flock? What are some practices Christian leaders need to emphasize? What are some marks of a wolf?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=27m26s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>27:26<\/strong><\/a><\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;Why people rightly fear to make disclosure of abuse: The deck is stacked for the community to side with the abuser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=36m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>36:00<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Duty of bystanders where there is spiritual abuse or bullying going on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=38m12s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>38:12<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Defining spiritual abuse, grooming, and\u00a0trauma<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvIpQnBpNWU&amp;t=47m16s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">47:16<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Help for caregivers:\u00a0Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts in helping people who have been traumatized; the importance of closeness with Jesus for caregivers themselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Abuse: Protecting Ministries, Destroying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[28,27,29,17,26,20,24,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-1196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resources","7":"category-theology","8":"tag-bullying","9":"tag-bystanders","10":"tag-caregivers","11":"tag-deceit","12":"tag-perpetrators","13":"tag-spiritual-abuse","14":"tag-trauma","15":"tag-wolves"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}