Stewarding Wounded Hearts: Being Jesus to Wounded People - Couverture souple

Wernli, Dave

 
9798991259903: Stewarding Wounded Hearts: Being Jesus to Wounded People

Synopsis

When wounded people come to church …
We often do one of two things, with the best of intentions:

  1. We minimize or discount their pain.
  2. We try to “fix” them by being the therapist.
Both just cause more damage that we don’t know we’re causing. We want to help. We have the right heart. But we’ve made it clear we don’t understand their pain, so they keep it secret.
But what if there’s another way?
At the end of the day, whether we are Jesus to wounded people or unintentionally cause more damage depends on how well we steward wounded hearts.
This practical book shows you:
  1. 5 common things *not* to say that minimize, discount, and shame their pain.
  2. 8 great things to say to validate their pain.
  3. Never judge a person’s wounding before you know their story.
  4. Never expose someone’s shame; that convinces them shame was right.
  5. Understanding the nature of wounding, unworthiness, and trauma.
  6. Don’t push wounded people into cheap forgiveness.
  7. Real forgiveness is grief work.
  8. Why we blame trauma survivors to make our world feel safe, and so do they.
  9. Don’t practice Christian peer pressure. Honor their no and their process.
  10. The Church is a lifesaving station, not a live stage show.
  11. 3 mindset traps that hijack Jesus’ mission to wounded people.
  12. 7 practical tips to steward wounded hearts well.
And much more, in less than 2 hours reading time.
Because if they can’t go to the people of God when they’re hurting, where can they go?

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À propos de l?auteur

Dave grew up in Los Angeles, CA. He graduated from UCLA with a master's degree in mathematics, into a day job with computers.Dave has a strong affinity for all parts of the Body of Christ, including the Evangelical, Catholic and Charismatic traditions.The Lord has held Dave close through much brokenness and loss. Through it all, God provided divine inner healing, miraculous relationship restorations, and His tremendous, incredibly close presence, with more to come. Dave and his wife Janet live in Fredericksburg, VA. They are passionate about sharing the healing they've received and seeing the Church walking in wholeness as the Bride of Christ we are called to be. They facilitate inner healing in their local church and volunteer with Rachel's Vineyard, a post-abortive recovery ministry in Richmond, VA, for both women and men.Please email Dave at dave@IdentityInWholeness.com.Visit their website at IdentityInWholeness.com.

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