If a person that has been hurt by the church starts ministering or starts a ministry without being healed, they end up behaving the same way as the person who hurt them. Kind of like the son who was beat by his alcoholic dad. The son promises he will never drink or behave like his father and then ends up doing the exact thing to his son. Your ministry will not flourish until you forgive and grow from your past hurts.
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This is such a powerful truth. I'm so glad that you posted it! So many believers move from church to church and begin seeking ways to "Work" versus ways to "Heal". If you never deal with the source of the pain or seek God on how you can truly forgive those that have hurt you...you are bound to repeat the same things... Romans says this in the Message bible:
15 What I don't understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise.
16 So if I can't be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God's command is necessary.
17 But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help!
18 I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it.
19 I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway.
20 My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.
21 It happens so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up
DMoore
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